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I agree. The core issue I face is that with a PowerBoost, I have to outthink the engine off cycling when cresting a slope. If you stay...
Dec 16, 2025
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I live in a really hilly area. My trucks been turned off hot after a big climb daily. There’s no way around it for me, My wife uses my...
Dec 16, 2025
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The thing is that aircraft and car engines operate in very different ways. Cars vary their power load throughout different speed and...
Dec 16, 2025
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You miss the point... It only takes a few minutes at high power to get the rpm up and temps up. Once that's reached it is irrelevant how...
Dec 16, 2025
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:ROFLMAO: I only worked on them for their entire production run up until recently. I can assure you every use case has been thought of...
Dec 16, 2025
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Maybe not completely. Heat soak is a thing and a handful of seconds at full throttle, which is what most engines will see at a time...
Dec 16, 2025
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With the cooling modules these trucks combined with the emissions strategy they just aren't going to let you get them hot enough to...
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Our fleet drivers would challenge the notion of not running full throttle for minutes at a time. :cwl: The amount of XL trim 2.7s...
Dec 16, 2025
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Wait, are you telling us that ford actually thought about the powerboost shutting off? You really don't have to outsmart the pcm...
Dec 16, 2025
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You don't need to worry about cooling the turbos by idling. They are still spinning even while idling, though boost is minimal, so not...
Dec 16, 2025
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I do , if I was using the turbos or driving hard. And I always warm my truck up from a cold start always. The turbos do get extremely...
Dec 16, 2025
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I’m sure. Like mentioned, old cars without coolant, cars with huge aftermarket turbos still a good idea to run turbo timers.
Dec 14, 2025
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The common practice for aircraft turbos for spin down & cooling is 5 minutes at engine idle. Aircraft turbos can get glowing red hot...
Dec 14, 2025
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Look at how the turbo oil feed lines are routed. There's enough there to gravity feed for a bit. We had a spate of oil feed line...
Dec 12, 2025
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Not necessary. The coolant pump will keep running for a short time to circulate coolant. Believe it or not these things are considered...
Dec 12, 2025
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The issue is oil to lubricate the spinning turbo.
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Unless you're driving on boost, heavily, then just come flying in to your garage, you'll be fine otherwise. I like to stay off boost for...
Dec 12, 2025
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These are water cooled turbos which should eliminate the oil coking associated with hot turbos from the 80s and 90s that didn't have...
Dec 12, 2025
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Here's the issue: if the turbo is spinning when you shutdwon the engine, oil stops being fed to the turbos. In my case I have a store I...
Dec 12, 2025
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Only after sustained boost under heavy load, and even then the best way to cool down is to engine brake or second best just drive around...
Dec 12, 2025
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On my the 3.5 PowerBoost, the engine is usually already off for a minute or so as I pull around the corner and into my driveway so I...
Dec 12, 2025
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Ah the good ol’ days of boosted imports and turbo timers 🖤
Dec 12, 2025
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If towing or very recently did some WOT runs (especially tuned) I would say yes. I live a mile in off a main road so I'm basically...
Dec 12, 2025
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These turbos are not like the old days when it was recommended to do so. They are designed for auto stop/ start .
Dec 12, 2025
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i barely let the truck come off high idle before i roll and i never let truck idle before shutting off..
Dec 12, 2025
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I only let it idle after towing.
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Ordinarily, no, it isn't necessary, but there seem to be exceptions. I have read from several sources that if the turbos have been...
Dec 12, 2025
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Dec 12, 2025
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Hi folks , heard something today and just wanted to ask on here about it. My 2022 3.5 Ecoboost , should I let the engine run for a...
Dec 12, 2025
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You dont. Here is what the mirror looks like with the camera. The outside temp sensor is in the passenger mirror. I cant imagine you...
Dec 5, 2025
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I don’t believe I do.
Dec 5, 2025
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Do you have 360 cameras? It dosent look like you do. so I dont see why it would need any calibration.
Dec 5, 2025
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On my 2022 F150 xlt I clipped the passenger side mirror backing up into a fence post and found an after market online that I ordered ...
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