As the title states, I'm new to diesel tuning. I have a 2004.5 basically stock, it has a Fass lift pump, Superior shift kit, K&N intake, and exhaust. Ive been making good improvements to my tune by reading on here and taking it slow. One thing im having a hard time understanding is the pilot timing. Most example tunes ive looked at have a max of around 25 degrees, and everything ive read says something like 35 degrees max timing. I haven't touched anything with the pilot injection in my tune and in my stock table has a better part of it covered with 30 degrees up to 57 degrees. Ill attach my current tune, id really like to get a grasp on pilot timing so I can stop worrying im going to grenade the poor 5.9! Also, any input on my tune in general would be greatly appreciated, it smokes a bit with light acceleration (I was going to play with the smoke limiter table), but runs great and pulls hard up top. Thinking about adding more duration but not exactly sure how much is safe and id like to get the pilot timing figured out. Happy Turkey day! Tune6.hpt