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Well today I got my EGT probe in finally, straight piped the exhaust and did the tone ring mod.
This was the second time that I have done an EGT probe first time was on a 2nd gen and let me tell you it was a hell of a lot easier to unbolt the turbo but was a major pain after that trying to get it out so I said forget it and got it to drop down about 1-2 inches stuffed rags in it and paper inbetween the tubo and exhaust manifold. After I drilled the pilot hole I started to think maybe this wasn't the best choice seeing all the shavings flying all over the place. So Ray (dieselrider23) held the vacuum hose up to the drill bit while I drilled away one after another till I got the hole done. I was still very nervous about it. Then after it was all said and done I was a feeling better about it.
Now the tone ring/timing ring mod I thought was gonna be a breeze from what everyone was saying, well it wasn't quite that easy. First off there is NO room to manuver up there, that idler pully has some to it and its hard to get the wrench on it. I think I fought the belt the most trying to get that off with the mm of room you have to work with. I tried the 3lb hammer and breaker bar which sounded easy but with the small amount of room there is a few hits did not make it happen, it took more like 20 and doing that with 4 bolts lying on the ground my arm was done for. Though after it was unbolted the belt was out of the way the dampner just fell out and timing ring came right out. I filed the dowl pin hole one the one side and put it back in which was a chore in itself trying to line it up then line up the dampner. Bolted it back up then fought the belt again for 20 min trying to get it lined up. So much for 20 min job more like an hour and did I mention there is NO room in there to do anything.
Then we did the exhaust, easy for the most part had to fight the sawzaw around a bit but it happened and I only got a few metal shavings in my eye and a cat converted fell on my ribs and a muffler hit me in the head. Used stainless steel exhaust band clamps and we were done.
All and all pretty eventfull day, the truck sounds great and with the ring mod I have a little smoke and it seems to get up on step alot sooner. I am happy and hope I get some better gas milage out of all of this.
eelout
This was the second time that I have done an EGT probe first time was on a 2nd gen and let me tell you it was a hell of a lot easier to unbolt the turbo but was a major pain after that trying to get it out so I said forget it and got it to drop down about 1-2 inches stuffed rags in it and paper inbetween the tubo and exhaust manifold. After I drilled the pilot hole I started to think maybe this wasn't the best choice seeing all the shavings flying all over the place. So Ray (dieselrider23) held the vacuum hose up to the drill bit while I drilled away one after another till I got the hole done. I was still very nervous about it. Then after it was all said and done I was a feeling better about it.
Now the tone ring/timing ring mod I thought was gonna be a breeze from what everyone was saying, well it wasn't quite that easy. First off there is NO room to manuver up there, that idler pully has some to it and its hard to get the wrench on it. I think I fought the belt the most trying to get that off with the mm of room you have to work with. I tried the 3lb hammer and breaker bar which sounded easy but with the small amount of room there is a few hits did not make it happen, it took more like 20 and doing that with 4 bolts lying on the ground my arm was done for. Though after it was unbolted the belt was out of the way the dampner just fell out and timing ring came right out. I filed the dowl pin hole one the one side and put it back in which was a chore in itself trying to line it up then line up the dampner. Bolted it back up then fought the belt again for 20 min trying to get it lined up. So much for 20 min job more like an hour and did I mention there is NO room in there to do anything.
Then we did the exhaust, easy for the most part had to fight the sawzaw around a bit but it happened and I only got a few metal shavings in my eye and a cat converted fell on my ribs and a muffler hit me in the head. Used stainless steel exhaust band clamps and we were done.
All and all pretty eventfull day, the truck sounds great and with the ring mod I have a little smoke and it seems to get up on step alot sooner. I am happy and hope I get some better gas milage out of all of this.