Banks is no stranger to the diesel power realm, and at this point, it is basically a household name. We have done a few installation articles with the company's products and have received great power numbers. One of the pieces to the puzzle we have never looked into is the Banks Six-Gun Advanced Tuner with PowerPDA. This system incorporates the proven Banks Six-Gun Tuner but adds the ease and connective ability of a Palm Tungsten E2. The Palm acts as a fully useful PDA system as it was designed. When the Banks download is placed in the PDA, you have complete control over all the tuning options of the Six-Gun Tuner with added dimensions, such as gauges, power-on-the-fly adjustment, data logging, scan and clear codes, the intense Speed-Loader power level, on-screen alerts, and easy tuner updates as new software is released. Under the ever-watchful eye of our camera, Orange County Diesel placed all of the necessary components of the Banks kit into an '05 Ford F-250 Super Duty with a 6.0L diesel under the hood. Follow along as O.C. Diesel technician, Reuben, shows us the ease of the parts installation.
A simple package, the Banks pieces we'll be installing are the Banks Ram-Air Intake system, Six-Gun Advanced Tuner, and PDA. | 
After removing the stock hardware, which held the factory air intake in place, Reuben simply popped it free from the engine bay. |
On the core support, Banks supplies this 1/4-inch bolt to replace the dual-sided stud that is normally found there. The factory hardware will not clear the new, larger Banks Ram-Air Intake box. | 
The Banks airbox merely slid in place of the stock counterpart. |
Reuben pulled the MAF sensor free from the OE intake and placed it into the Banks intake tube using the new Banks-supplied hardware. | 
That was followed up with the grommet from the filter-life sensor. |
Stainless hardware from the Banks packaging was used to bolt the air tube into the airbox. | 
Before we went too far along, the electrical harness for the MAF sensor was clipped back onto the MAF. |
Reuben next mounted the new washable, highs flow air-filter into the Ram airbox | |