I am having a strange problem with my Syclone. I bought it in august and haven't driven it much. The alternator on my DD died monday, and I was waiting until this weekend to fix it so I was driving the Syclone until I then.
When I got the truck it had a Kenne Bell chip in it as well as what's in my signature. I replaced it with the stock memcal as soon as I got the truck home. It ran good, but I noticed that according to the stock boost gauge I was only making about 7-8 lbs of boost. So last night I took a look at the vacuum lines around the boost control solenoid and they were run so that the solenoid was bypassed, here is a picture of how they were run:
I replaced the vacuum lines with silicon ones and routed them how they are supposed to be. Took it for a spin, and it was showing around 12-13 lbs. boost. I only drove it around the block, and did one WOT run from 0-50. It seemed like it was spooling a lot slower, but it was making more boost.
Well this morning it started fine, but was idling rougher than usual. Once I got on the road and got on the throttle it spooled even slower than last night. Once spooled up it reached 12-13 lbs of boost, but felt slower from 0-60 than it did with the solenoid bypassed. The coolant temp also got above the half mark for the first time since I got it, my drive to work is only 3 miles and it was 40 degrees outside.
Then when I went to lunch things really went south. It was idling horribly, barely staying running. I drove about a mile, only getting into boost twice, and it was spooling really really slow. Sat in a drive through for about 5 minutes, went to exit the parking lot, pushed the gas pedal, and the truck didn't move. It just stayed at idle for about 2 seconds then started to move, spooled up really slow and then after about 4 seconds got into boost and up to 35 mph. I took a back road without traffic back to work and I thought it was going to just stop running. I could come to a complete stop, push the gas pedal, and count one mississippi, two mississippi, three then it would start to move, and take another three seconds to get up to 40 mph. It doesn't matter if I mashed the pedal or just eased into it, it won't move for several seconds. Then when I got to work there was smoke coming out from under the hood. I popped the hood and the smoke was flowing out of the air filter. It wasn't a ton of smoke just a constant stream of smoke emanating from the filter. No steam from the radiator, or smoke from anywhere else, just from the air filter, and the intake tube was very hot to the touch. It didn't have a distinctive smell like burning oil or coolant, it was just there.
Also there was a sizzling sound that is not normal coming from the area of the thermostat, but the truck didn't overheat, according to the temp gauge it was about 190 (usually it is about 170). The heater core is bad (my vent air smells like coolant), and 2 weeks ago after driving the truck about 5 miles I parked it and coolant was leaking to the ground from somewhere above the passenger side torsion bar by the firewall but I couldn't tell from where. I have had to fill the radiator twice in about 50 miles of driving since then, but coolant has not been leaking to the ground, so I am worried I have blown a gasket and the motor is burning it up, but I don't know how to diagnose it. I haven't really been driving it so I wasn't worried about it much, but now I am.
The only thing I did last night was hook the boost solenoid back up. I am still at work so I can't go out and bypass it again until I get home. Did I blow the turbo up or what?
Thanks in advance guys!
When I got the truck it had a Kenne Bell chip in it as well as what's in my signature. I replaced it with the stock memcal as soon as I got the truck home. It ran good, but I noticed that according to the stock boost gauge I was only making about 7-8 lbs of boost. So last night I took a look at the vacuum lines around the boost control solenoid and they were run so that the solenoid was bypassed, here is a picture of how they were run:
I replaced the vacuum lines with silicon ones and routed them how they are supposed to be. Took it for a spin, and it was showing around 12-13 lbs. boost. I only drove it around the block, and did one WOT run from 0-50. It seemed like it was spooling a lot slower, but it was making more boost.
Well this morning it started fine, but was idling rougher than usual. Once I got on the road and got on the throttle it spooled even slower than last night. Once spooled up it reached 12-13 lbs of boost, but felt slower from 0-60 than it did with the solenoid bypassed. The coolant temp also got above the half mark for the first time since I got it, my drive to work is only 3 miles and it was 40 degrees outside.
Then when I went to lunch things really went south. It was idling horribly, barely staying running. I drove about a mile, only getting into boost twice, and it was spooling really really slow. Sat in a drive through for about 5 minutes, went to exit the parking lot, pushed the gas pedal, and the truck didn't move. It just stayed at idle for about 2 seconds then started to move, spooled up really slow and then after about 4 seconds got into boost and up to 35 mph. I took a back road without traffic back to work and I thought it was going to just stop running. I could come to a complete stop, push the gas pedal, and count one mississippi, two mississippi, three then it would start to move, and take another three seconds to get up to 40 mph. It doesn't matter if I mashed the pedal or just eased into it, it won't move for several seconds. Then when I got to work there was smoke coming out from under the hood. I popped the hood and the smoke was flowing out of the air filter. It wasn't a ton of smoke just a constant stream of smoke emanating from the filter. No steam from the radiator, or smoke from anywhere else, just from the air filter, and the intake tube was very hot to the touch. It didn't have a distinctive smell like burning oil or coolant, it was just there.
Also there was a sizzling sound that is not normal coming from the area of the thermostat, but the truck didn't overheat, according to the temp gauge it was about 190 (usually it is about 170). The heater core is bad (my vent air smells like coolant), and 2 weeks ago after driving the truck about 5 miles I parked it and coolant was leaking to the ground from somewhere above the passenger side torsion bar by the firewall but I couldn't tell from where. I have had to fill the radiator twice in about 50 miles of driving since then, but coolant has not been leaking to the ground, so I am worried I have blown a gasket and the motor is burning it up, but I don't know how to diagnose it. I haven't really been driving it so I wasn't worried about it much, but now I am.
The only thing I did last night was hook the boost solenoid back up. I am still at work so I can't go out and bypass it again until I get home. Did I blow the turbo up or what?
Thanks in advance guys!
