ARCHIVE Wits' End Turbo Test Mule #3- no cartwheeling allowed (4 Viewers)

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So just HOW bad is the potential for doing the oil pump cover? Extreme. Done a handful of these over the years without issue. This time...this time I lose. Three OEM bolts would not budge. Tried Vessel drive with vice grips. Nada. Tried the impact with impact JIS bits. Nope. Tried easy out, it broke in the head of the bolt 🙄

Unfortunately the condenser had to come out. Impact worked on two and in the last used the Dremel to cut a notch in the screw head and impact driver to remove it finally. Really sucks but to be honest, I was kinda thinking of replacing the condenser anyway because of all the muck. Oh well.

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I'd install a Parallel Flow condenser since you're replacing it anyway. Made a huge difference in my truck.
 
I'd install a Parallel Flow condenser since you're replacing it anyway. Made a huge difference in my truck.

Found your thread. So that part number is literally all that’s needed? Zero modifications needed? Plug and play? 🤔
 
Found your thread. So that part number is literally all that’s needed? Zero modifications needed? Plug and play? 🤔
Yup, it bolted right in except one side needed a nut on the mount since there was no welded nut. No biggie. You may want to paint it as it comes painted silver.
 
Yup, it bolted right in except one side needed a nut on the mount since there was no welded nut. No biggie. You may want to paint it as it comes painted silver.

Oh. Hmm, I was going to anodize it but if it’s painted that kinda ruins that 🤔
 
Oh. Hmm, I was going to anodize it but if it’s painted that kinda ruins that 🤔
Looks like paint, doesn't appear to be raw aluminum.
 
No using hex/torx instead. The the countersink of the screwhead acts as an indexer for the cover. Since the cover isn’t pinned into place you can’t use standard hex bolts or SHCS because those won’t index properly.

That’s right. It’s been so long that I forgot.
 
I'm changing quite a few things that I probably shouldn't be changing but I'm going to because I want to. Going to be changing out quote a few things that are non-standard. Not for the purists :hmm: ...and IR12
 
Absolutely! But it requires parallel dimension theory to be accurate since both need to occupy the same physical space but necessarily the same time 🤔

Dreamers gotta dream
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Turbo supercharged engines... no problem!

Oh yee of little faith!



 

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