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Originally Posted by nasty50
ive heard about the vanes in the turbo. i heard that if you "blow" it out every so often you will be fine. is that true? just keep in mind this truck will never see any type of power adder or pull any heavy loads. it will just be driven as an everyday driver for my wife.
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Blowing out the turbo occasionally is very advisable. Probably more important though is making sure you have good combustion (minimizing soot). This means you need to keep fuel filters changed regularly (using OEM style Racor filters only), buy fuel from high volume stations, keep an eye on your air filter "filter minder" for determining the time to change it, get the fuel pressure gauge (low fuel pressure can QUICKLY trash a bunch of injectors) and get the oil and water temperature gauges. Fuel filters - change every 10k-15k miles. Oil and filter - change every 5k miles IMO. A 5W40 CI4+ or CJ4 oil is great to run year round.
If your oil temperature excedes the coolant temperature by more than 15 degrees F, then your oil filter is clogged on the coolant side. This will quickly kill your EGR cooler and you will send coolant into the combustion process. This can damage a lot of things.
Make sure you keep fresh coolant in your truck and only use the Motorcraft Gold OR Zerex G05 coolant. Do not add additives to the coolant but an add-on coolant filter is very wise.
Also - keep the batteries and alternator in good working order. Low voltages can overwork the Fuel Injector Control Module and it can fail. It is over $800 to replace.
The torqshift tranny is VERY strong. However - it will ONLY take Mercon SP fluid. Using ther fluids will damage solenoids. Flushing it or dropping the pan and changing fluid is adviseable every 30k miles.
Hope none of this scares you off. Do the maintenance and it will be great.
