3rd Gauge
 

My girlfriend bought me a triple pillar pod and I have no idea what to put as the 3rd gauge. I'm doin' EGT and boost. The truck is a stick so there's not much need for trans temp, and my water temp in the dash is fine so I don't need that.

Fuel pressure no questions asked hands down, every 6.0 on the planet should have one.

Next two gauges should be coolant temp and oil temp.

fuel pressure is a good one also may wanna think hpop just so u can keep an eye on that incase it goes out. but thats just me

Fuel pressure...

And FYI, if the HPOP goes out... the truck shuts off.

Oil temp, Coolant temp, Diff temp... you can go on and on...

Coming from our resident gauge whore! hahaha:c:

what i was sayin is that you can get a heads up if it starts to take a dump on ya so u can get somewhere rather than bein dead on the side of the road

They dont go out like that... Its pretty much an all or nothing deal.

So there is actually a gauge you don't have in your truck? Wow. I didn't think that was possible.

no i'm pretty positive i've seen one in one of his vids lol

I actually just checked the list of gauges he posted he had on PSN, he doesn't have an HPOP gauge! Must of run out of room in the cab for gauges? lol.

Kinda like what I was wantin' to do eventually. Have Oil Press, Boost, EGT and Water Temp on the A-pillar, Fuel Press, Fuel Level tank 1 and Fuel Level tank 2 (once I put the twin tanks in) right above the rear view mirror, Volt and Trans Temp in the steering column

not to correct u and i may be wrong but i was washin my truck one day (before i had the gauge) truck started to idle funny and act wrong all around. made it 2 miles and the hpop went out...now having a gauge may not have helped me but i still think its a good one to have once u have ur top 3 or 4

Acually I had the second Alpha HPO gauge built in the country...:moon:

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Ran it for quite a while, but just a stand alone HPO gauge does not really tell you that much.

And if I dont have the gauge installed in the dash I want, I can reach into the back seat and grab one of these...

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This is what I use for a HPO gauge, it gives me more information then just a HPO gauge will give me. Duty cycle is a HUGE part of HPO.

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Again, A HPO gauge would not have given you any more warning then that. Are you sure it was your HPOP and not the IPR? When you replaced one did you or they replace both???

Just asking, because it is VERY rare for a HPOP to break.

Isspro can make you a fuel level sender and provide you with a fuel level gauge... I run one for my 110 bed tank.

the truck was under warranty at the time so i dropped it off and they worked on it so im not 100% sure what it was but they told me it was the hpop (they could be lying) and in the time under my warranty (100k in 4 yrs) i went through 4 hpops...atleast thats what the paper work said

More the likely they thru a new IPR and New HPOP at the same time... I doubt you went thru 4 of them, more like you had 4 IPR issues...

Skip the boost. EGT, Fuel Pressure and EOT is what I would get. Or get a Scan gauge in place of EOT.

Too bad you couldn't get an ET till 6.0 blows up guage :lol88:

Yeah they're called oil temp and coolant temp. Tells you when oil cooler is failing which leads to blown egr coolers and headgasket failure in 99% of cases.

Fuel pressure, EOT, ECT and EGT if you got any kinda of custom tune or havey towing.

I was told that fuel pressure gauges fluctuate so much that they wear out the sending sensor? And what is EOT and ECT?

And can anyone tell me how hard it to hook up pyro, boost, and a scan gauge?

That's just dumb. Get a fuel pressure gauge. A gauge wont wear out the sending unit, but pressure spikes might. The sending unit is sending signals to the gauge, not the other way around. EOT is engine oil temp, ECT is engine coolant temp. Two very important gauges for a 6.0.

Pyro is pretty easy, just have to drill and tap the drivers side manifold, you can do this really easily under the truck, tons of room to do it actually, I've posted pics all over on here of where I drilled and tapped mine. Boost is stupid simple, you can either drill and tap the intake elbow, or use a "T" in the map line, which is cake. Scangauge just plugs into the OBD port, so that's the easiest of them all. If that's what you're referring to...

That clears alot up. Thanks