Upgrades and Aftermarket - 99 & up 7.3L EngineUpgrading or adding OEM or aftermarket equipment to your 1999-Up Super Duty or Excursion with 7.3L Power Stroke diesel engine. Please confine discussion of topics in this forum to those items that are specific to the 7.3L Power Stroke engine.
I was wondering if anyone has used the ScanGaugeII. Is it any good as a Trip Computer? What about as a code reader? I assume that since it is getting its data from the Truck Computer that its accuracy may be similar to the factory ones - which I have not heard a lot of good about (my truck doesn't have one).
I borrowed one from a friend. If you've been to their site you see what it can do. If you program the right codes in it, and your computer puts out, it will give you some cool info.
I could not get it to tell me cyl. head temp, barometric press., water temp, and several other things I wanted to know. It religiuosly told me I was getting 9.8 mpg - at 50mph w/cruise on for miles or 80 and belching smoke.
I did like reading and clearing codes at a red lite. The digital tach, volt meter, etc were cool. I'll get it again when I get back in a couple weeks, and contact scangauge for help gettin' those features to work - if they will...
It was like $169 - right?
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2001 F-350, DRW, 4x4, XLT Crew Cab, flat bed, 7.3, 6 spd, Dipricol Optix gauges on pillar - EGT, Boost, Fuel Press., HPO Press. - No Muffler, AIH delete, SB Con OFE, AC code injctrs, GTP 38R. Vegistroke-inspired WVO system w/150,000 trouble-free miles! BTS tunes, 203 t-stat w/billet housing, Evans coolant, coolant filter, boost relief valve, Dieselsite IC boots, Hella headlight harness, '07 grill/lites and big, bad front bumper!
2000 Excursion 4x4 Limited - BTS trans and tunes, AIS, Frybrid/V3 SVO conversion with over 100k VO miles so far!
I borrowed one from a friend. If you've been to their site you see what it can do. If you program the right codes in it, and your computer puts out, it will give you some cool info.
I could not get it to tell me cyl. head temp, barometric press., water temp, and several other things I wanted to know. It religiuosly told me I was getting 9.8 mpg - at 50mph w/cruise on for miles or 80 and belching smoke.
I did like reading and clearing codes at a red lite. The digital tach, volt meter, etc were cool. I'll get it again when I get back in a couple weeks, and contact scangauge for help gettin' those features to work - if they will...
It was like $169 - right?
Yes, they retail for $169 and you can buy them for about $159 at online retailers.
So is the one you borrowed a "II" or the original? From their website, they made a lot of improvements over the original.
It religiuosly told me I was getting 9.8 mpg - at 50mph w/cruise on for miles or 80 and belching smoke
sounds like a boost leak or a ic boot flew off.
I'm not getting 9.8 mpg - the thing is obviously not accurate. Even the stock lie-o-meters will vary w/driving conditions... not sure what this thing measures or if the chip screws it up. 'Stock' setting on chip (or any other) made no difference.
Even w/a minor boost leak, I can nail 25psi at will. Estimated 15-17mpg empty. I'll install the rest of my dieselsite boots when I go home to get them. Unfortunately they were shipped there automatically when they came in, and I am on the other side of the country.
It was an Scangauge II.
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2001 F-350, DRW, 4x4, XLT Crew Cab, flat bed, 7.3, 6 spd, Dipricol Optix gauges on pillar - EGT, Boost, Fuel Press., HPO Press. - No Muffler, AIH delete, SB Con OFE, AC code injctrs, GTP 38R. Vegistroke-inspired WVO system w/150,000 trouble-free miles! BTS tunes, 203 t-stat w/billet housing, Evans coolant, coolant filter, boost relief valve, Dieselsite IC boots, Hella headlight harness, '07 grill/lites and big, bad front bumper!
2000 Excursion 4x4 Limited - BTS trans and tunes, AIS, Frybrid/V3 SVO conversion with over 100k VO miles so far!
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