I'm beginning to suspect that my local diesel shop was licking its chops when I came to them with my Ex and told them it was my first Ford and my first diesel...and I was not a DIY guy when it came to cars.
You can see from my sig that I gave them pretty much carte blanche with my stock rig. I am quite naive when it comes to chips, programmers, etc. and many have said I should get rid of the Juice and put in a chip, etc. Now I don't want to to start dumping and modding again unless it is affordable
I am not interested in flaming kids at green lights. My primary goal is to enhance towing performance in the very mountainous area in which I travel and live. This is not a daily driver. I came off a '99 K2500 7.4 gasser with which I had all kinds of dinky (and costly) problems with marginal performance, and which was approaching 175K miles....getting real tired. It did the job but really labored on some of the mountain passes I tackled. I hope to cure these problems with the Ex.
I don't know what I am supposed to expect with the Juice, especially since I have never towed without the Juice. I put it in the tow mode (position 2) and it handles the climbs with no downshifting and seeming little effort, so it seems that I am getting what I paid for. I have added a tranny gauge and the temps are quite acceptable on the climbs. I just returned from a 300 mile test run , combination of freeway 6% grades to 7K' and two lane sustained climb to 10,750'. I was quite pleased with the performance. The tranny did get to 210 momentarily at the summit of the big one, but stayed below 190 otherwise....acceptable to me.
I probably did not need any mods from the outset, but here I am. Maybe someone can tell me the basic difference between a chip and a programmer and which, if any, would be best in my situation. Can the Juice be easily removed? Is there a market for used Juice? Should it be replaced with a chip? Or should I just leave it in.
This is an interesting and certainly informative forum, but not always geared to the novice, albeit a 71 year old novice. You guys use too many acronyms that mean little to me....until I look them up, and then they still don't mean much to me. All sage advice will be appreciated
You can see from my sig that I gave them pretty much carte blanche with my stock rig. I am quite naive when it comes to chips, programmers, etc. and many have said I should get rid of the Juice and put in a chip, etc. Now I don't want to to start dumping and modding again unless it is affordable
I am not interested in flaming kids at green lights. My primary goal is to enhance towing performance in the very mountainous area in which I travel and live. This is not a daily driver. I came off a '99 K2500 7.4 gasser with which I had all kinds of dinky (and costly) problems with marginal performance, and which was approaching 175K miles....getting real tired. It did the job but really labored on some of the mountain passes I tackled. I hope to cure these problems with the Ex.
I don't know what I am supposed to expect with the Juice, especially since I have never towed without the Juice. I put it in the tow mode (position 2) and it handles the climbs with no downshifting and seeming little effort, so it seems that I am getting what I paid for. I have added a tranny gauge and the temps are quite acceptable on the climbs. I just returned from a 300 mile test run , combination of freeway 6% grades to 7K' and two lane sustained climb to 10,750'. I was quite pleased with the performance. The tranny did get to 210 momentarily at the summit of the big one, but stayed below 190 otherwise....acceptable to me.
I probably did not need any mods from the outset, but here I am. Maybe someone can tell me the basic difference between a chip and a programmer and which, if any, would be best in my situation. Can the Juice be easily removed? Is there a market for used Juice? Should it be replaced with a chip? Or should I just leave it in.
This is an interesting and certainly informative forum, but not always geared to the novice, albeit a 71 year old novice. You guys use too many acronyms that mean little to me....until I look them up, and then they still don't mean much to me. All sage advice will be appreciated