I just joined the community recently, and mentioned in my intro a few things that needed updating. Well, the hard starting got ridiculous when I was gone for work for a week. Got home and the truck wouldn't even turn over. No, I hadn't left any lights or anything on. Both batteries had last been replaced in 2010, so they're due anyway.
I got the batteries swapped out, all the corrosion cleaned off the terminals with baking soda/water and cleaning brushes, used compressed air to accelerate the drying process, new batteries in with some anti-corrosion spray on all the connections after for good measure. Fired right up like it's supposed to. I let it idle in the driveway for about 15 minutes while I puttered around checking tire pressures, some spot cleaning, etc.
Got out of the housing subdivision and punched it to get up to 45mph on the main road. There was a pretty reasonable cloud of black smoke that poured out of the tailpipe in my mirror. Is this typical? I don't have a monitoring solution yet, and it's definitely on my short list.
For those that haven't read my other intro, it's an '05 6.0L PSD, seems mostly stock but has a K&N filter. Original airbox wasn't included, and I'm planning to dump the K&N ASAP as well.
Looking forward to your thoughts / assistance :smile2:
I got the batteries swapped out, all the corrosion cleaned off the terminals with baking soda/water and cleaning brushes, used compressed air to accelerate the drying process, new batteries in with some anti-corrosion spray on all the connections after for good measure. Fired right up like it's supposed to. I let it idle in the driveway for about 15 minutes while I puttered around checking tire pressures, some spot cleaning, etc.
Got out of the housing subdivision and punched it to get up to 45mph on the main road. There was a pretty reasonable cloud of black smoke that poured out of the tailpipe in my mirror. Is this typical? I don't have a monitoring solution yet, and it's definitely on my short list.
For those that haven't read my other intro, it's an '05 6.0L PSD, seems mostly stock but has a K&N filter. Original airbox wasn't included, and I'm planning to dump the K&N ASAP as well.
Looking forward to your thoughts / assistance :smile2: