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Hey thanks for the kind words twoturtles! I really appreciate it! It has been a great truck and some great projects for sure. Even if a little stressful taking a running driving truck apart for whatever reason!
I have been super busy this past week. My hopes was to have it on the road by now but a few set backs have not allowed me to do so. Not big deals but its always time consuming!
A few items have been put on hold in order for me to just get the truck driving. At the same time I know that if I don't do certain items now it will never get done in the future!
First item of buisiness is the intercooler and radiator mounting. The intercooler is a massive unit off of a 8.1 liter Hino diesel. As you can see in the pics it's roughly the same size of the radiator! Good thing I put in a 4cyl diesel or I would run out of room real quick:
My intial design put the fans too close to the engine so I ended up having to sandwich the intercooler. Not ideal for removing easily but the intercooler, radiator and fans now are all one unit.
A delay in the build came when trying to source an oil feed line for the turbo. After many phone calls and a solid day wasted driving around trying to find fittings I found Oil Filter Service in Portland with the help of Mike. Though they didn't have the fittings on the shelf they did have it made overnight for about $60.
The Brown Santa came by and dropped off some parts. Power steering oil cooler and flex pipe for the exhaust.
Steering cooler plumbed and mounted:
Flex pipe welded on 3" straight pipe exhaust:
Part of the frustration with the build came in the form of the down tube for the turbo. Apparently Chevy runs thier "own system" and aftermarket parts are $100 plus. I was able to get the stock down tube and clamp from a wrecked truck for $20 but it took weeks to track down. It was almost an exact fit into the engine bay an only took about 30 mins to cut and weld in a wedge to get it to line up:
I bought a stick of 3" straight pipe from Napa for $35 but it was just a bit short. A quick trip across the street to my neighbors house yeilded a stock exhaust from a Dodge diesel for a 6 pack. It had all the bits I needed to finish the exhaust. 3" next to stock:
I made a few changes to how I had routed the cooling lines to better facilitate flow to the rear heat and to add in my heat exchanger for on board shower/ hot water:
Misc pics of the truck getting closer to being done:
I will be working on the intercooler, intake and other misc stuff this week. I also picked up the painless dual fan control for the contour fans. It was a bit spendy but looks to have some nice features:
Painless Performance: F5 Dual Fan Controller
Anyways we are on the home stretch and it shouldn't bee too much longer!
Thanks for looking.
clint
I have been super busy this past week. My hopes was to have it on the road by now but a few set backs have not allowed me to do so. Not big deals but its always time consuming!
A few items have been put on hold in order for me to just get the truck driving. At the same time I know that if I don't do certain items now it will never get done in the future!
First item of buisiness is the intercooler and radiator mounting. The intercooler is a massive unit off of a 8.1 liter Hino diesel. As you can see in the pics it's roughly the same size of the radiator! Good thing I put in a 4cyl diesel or I would run out of room real quick:
My intial design put the fans too close to the engine so I ended up having to sandwich the intercooler. Not ideal for removing easily but the intercooler, radiator and fans now are all one unit.
A delay in the build came when trying to source an oil feed line for the turbo. After many phone calls and a solid day wasted driving around trying to find fittings I found Oil Filter Service in Portland with the help of Mike. Though they didn't have the fittings on the shelf they did have it made overnight for about $60.
The Brown Santa came by and dropped off some parts. Power steering oil cooler and flex pipe for the exhaust.
Steering cooler plumbed and mounted:
Flex pipe welded on 3" straight pipe exhaust:
Part of the frustration with the build came in the form of the down tube for the turbo. Apparently Chevy runs thier "own system" and aftermarket parts are $100 plus. I was able to get the stock down tube and clamp from a wrecked truck for $20 but it took weeks to track down. It was almost an exact fit into the engine bay an only took about 30 mins to cut and weld in a wedge to get it to line up:
I bought a stick of 3" straight pipe from Napa for $35 but it was just a bit short. A quick trip across the street to my neighbors house yeilded a stock exhaust from a Dodge diesel for a 6 pack. It had all the bits I needed to finish the exhaust. 3" next to stock:
I made a few changes to how I had routed the cooling lines to better facilitate flow to the rear heat and to add in my heat exchanger for on board shower/ hot water:
Misc pics of the truck getting closer to being done:
I will be working on the intercooler, intake and other misc stuff this week. I also picked up the painless dual fan control for the contour fans. It was a bit spendy but looks to have some nice features:
Painless Performance: F5 Dual Fan Controller
Anyways we are on the home stretch and it shouldn't bee too much longer!
Thanks for looking.
clint
