...After leaving, going up out of Denver, turbo hose blew off. Got it fixed for about 300 ft. Mobile Tech came by and fixed it, he followed us to Evergreen, hose came off before we got there...
I can relate to this. We had just replaced all of the plastic turbo pipes due to a hole worn through the bottom of the biggest one. 4 months later we left south-of-Detroit, Michigan for Florida for the winter. Our 2006 F250 Super Duty 6.0 Diesel truck was running a little strange, but I chalked it up to the <20 temps. 25 miles later the turbo hose blew off the turbo outlet. I re-clamped it back on while wearing an arctic suit on the side of the road. We made it about 100 yards and it blew off again. This time I didn't care about the clamp torque and cranked it down. Nursing it along we made it to just north of Cincinnati, Ohio with the hose blown off the third of fourth time...in a blizzard. We spent the night in a parking lot.
The next morning we barely made it up the ramp to the freeway. (Have you ever noticed that most all freeway entrance ramps are uphill when pulling a big RV?). We made it into Kentucky where it blew off again. This time we looked online and found that Emery cloth super-glued upside down onto the turbo flange would keep the hose from blowing off. It did...for a while...Then another hose blew off the inter-cooler! I cranked that one down as well. We were able to get into Georgia with things appearing normal.
Late the next morning we stopped just south of Atlanta for fuel. While pulling "up" the freeway ramp something else blew that but it was a very different, much louder, noise. I pulled off the ramp and found that the aluminum and plastic intercooler had a blowout. We were able to crawl on the shoulder to make the next ramp and parked (with permission) in a vacant part pf a gas station.
Options? We called our RV park and contacted the local handyman, Ron, that we knew from previous years. He drove his truck up to take our RV the remaining 300+ miles. While waiting we took our truck (it was drivable without the trailer albeit very loud and using way more fuel) to the nearest Ford dealer 60 miles away. Their mechanic was on vacation. So my wife said that if I could drive it that far at 60 Mph to the Ford dealer, why couldn't I just drive it to the local Ford dealer near the RV park in Florida (I'm a smart guy, but my wife can very often make me completely outwitted)...
We did that and Ron deposited out Solitude on our lot at exactly midnight. The next weekday I took the truck to the Ford dealer where I received a quote for about $12K worth of repairs. I did research and found that my turbo "unity ring" that hydraulically (engine oil pressure) moves the vanes that vary the exhaust pressure either through the turbo or out the tail pipe, was stuck in-position, causing a permanent over-boost!
I bought a new all-aluminum-cast and welded intercooler and a turbo rebuild kit for $270 and $120, respectively, from Amazon. I also re-soldered the transistors in my fuel injector module (a known issue...I had to remove the module to be able to remove the Turbo anyway).
That was the end of our turbo issue, except going home at Easter and climbing a Tennessee Mountain one of the intercooler hoses blew off. It was then I remembered that I had the wrong-sized hose clamp for the new intercooler and had forgotten to get the right one. We cut a couple strips of indoor-outdoor carpeting to put under the clamp to make it tighter. It still there 4 years later! And we've been back to Florida 4 more times... Anyway, We really felt your pain!
Probably 3-400lbs less if they are similarly equipped
