Hello Everyone, new subscriber to this site but have browsed the threads many times before, a great knowledge base.
OK, so, I have a '06 6.0 with a mild SCT towing tune and a flo-pro 4" exhaust, other than that shes bone stock. Just finished a big haul (about 8 Hours with 12k lbs)
and had 2 strange coolant temp spikes on the climbs, spiked from normal to almost max and then immediatly went back down to normal the moment a lifted throttle just a touch. This made me curious and I started to look into a few things, over the whole trip I had lost probably 2 pints of coolant and over the past 2 weeks of normal driving ive lost maybe another pint. so I removed EGR, Cleaned it, and checked for moisture in EGR cooler.
The valve was slightly gooey but not super bad, and the bottom of EGR cooler was somewhat damp, not dry and sooty.
this leads me to believe my EGR cooler is leaking but im not getting very much smoke at all and when it does smoke white its only when its cold and parked with the nose uphill.
So, I know I need to install a delete kit or get it welded it up, but im not super duper diesel mechanic and am going to need to pay the diesel shop to do it.
Will there be major repercussions from driving it knowing its leaking but making sure coolant stays topped up until I can afford to fix it???
Sorry for the long winded question but I wanted to get the story as accurate as possible.
Many thanks!
OK, so, I have a '06 6.0 with a mild SCT towing tune and a flo-pro 4" exhaust, other than that shes bone stock. Just finished a big haul (about 8 Hours with 12k lbs)
and had 2 strange coolant temp spikes on the climbs, spiked from normal to almost max and then immediatly went back down to normal the moment a lifted throttle just a touch. This made me curious and I started to look into a few things, over the whole trip I had lost probably 2 pints of coolant and over the past 2 weeks of normal driving ive lost maybe another pint. so I removed EGR, Cleaned it, and checked for moisture in EGR cooler.
The valve was slightly gooey but not super bad, and the bottom of EGR cooler was somewhat damp, not dry and sooty.
this leads me to believe my EGR cooler is leaking but im not getting very much smoke at all and when it does smoke white its only when its cold and parked with the nose uphill.
So, I know I need to install a delete kit or get it welded it up, but im not super duper diesel mechanic and am going to need to pay the diesel shop to do it.
Will there be major repercussions from driving it knowing its leaking but making sure coolant stays topped up until I can afford to fix it???
Sorry for the long winded question but I wanted to get the story as accurate as possible.
Many thanks!