calicamper
Expedition Leader
I spy a sun fish. Great explorer rig you dont need to paddle. ;-)Ambo updated photo...
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I spy a sun fish. Great explorer rig you dont need to paddle. ;-)Ambo updated photo...
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Installed a water/meth kit, lower egt's and a little more power!
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Under the hood
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Under the dash
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The cool new gauge
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Just have to weld up a mount for the tank.
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When I first started driving the 4700 I found the engine to be incredibly sluggish. It turned out to be the terrible automatic transmission, the Allison AT500 does not have a lockout feature for the torque converter. After a little tranny swap (look back a few pages) to a Eaton manual the truck came to life. Then came a few adjustments, fuel rate, preboost, injector pump timing and installing a huge intercooler. Tipping the scales at close to 17K pounds it can happily tow my 6800 pound camper like it doesn't exist. I am really looking forward to towing with the water methanol kit. So far driving it with water/meth has been amazing!Nice Truck!
How well does it do up hills? The reason I ask is the SAR group I am with has an Southern Ambulance Class A unit with a 4700 Cab and the DT360 and its a bit pokey up some good hills..
I think we have a Voith transmission in ours; either way it has 3 gears and its awful going up hills and high climb switchbacks, which are our regular roads.When I first started driving the 4700 I found the engine to be incredibly sluggish. It turned out to be the terrible automatic transmission, the Allison AT500 does not have a lockout feature for the torque converter. After a little tranny swap (look back a few pages) to a Eaton manual the truck came to life. Then came a few adjustments, fuel rate, preboost, injector pump timing and installing a huge intercooler. Tipping the scales at close to 17K pounds it can happily tow my 6800 pound camper like it doesn't exist. I am really looking forward to towing with the water methanol kit. So far driving it with water/meth has been amazing!
My biggest bit of advice is to get the service manual, it show all the settings for manual vs automatic tranny injector pump settings (they are different). My truck was stock 12 degrees injector pump timing, where as manual tranny with an intercooler can be set 17 to 19 degrees. Mine is set to 17 and it woke the engine up, better fuel economy and much cooler egt's.
The DT360 can makes a ton of power, but I was shooting for the middle ground between reliability and performance.