Lou_and_Bette
Well-known member
About 5 miles East of Rawlins, WY, while pulling a hill, loud bang, slightly different sound and truck lost some power. We limped into Rawlins and discovered Wyoming Diesel Repair was just a half mile away. We discovered this because the firemen, who were called out for the large plume of black smoke that belched out after I eased off the throttle, told us about it, called them and found out they could maybe get us in tomorrow, Thursday, but for sure on Monday. Closed Friday for the 4th of July weekend. Found a KOA park near by but could only have 30 Amp site with water. Nothing else. Started trying to find some one able to tow 5thW. We were supposed to arrive that day at Dave and Amy Tardiff’s so called him about delay. He called back, 10 minutes later and told us he was coming for us. 4 hours later, he shows up, we hook up and he drives 5 hours back home. Wow, what a friend. Any way, the truck problem turned out to be a broken Cold air side Turbo Intercooler tube. While waiting for the diagnosis of truck problem, googled “broken turbo intake tube.” Got many hits but the one most helpful was the “powerstroke.com” forum. Seems not serious problem and occurs often enough that this forum has a thread titled “where were you when the tube let loose?” I had heard of several of our members that clamps on this tube had failed on them and easy fix. It seems, after reading many posts on this topic, that it takes less than 30 minutes to fix, if you have the part. I would strongly encourage all my fellow 6.7 owners to buy this part (I paid $108, which probably included the overnight shipping) and keep it with you on the road. I was at 95k miles and 100k seems to be the magic number. Good travels. Lou
