Aight so truck is done!!!!! kinda. Where i "filled" the EGR hole in the headers, apparently isnt closed off so exhaust is coming out of that hole in the header. sucks. threw a code cuz of it im guessing causeing a bit of an idle issue cuz of it too. no worries some JB weld and that hole will be closed tmw. New yoke works perfect and solved my issue! I truly think that I can finally say that this project is 99% complete!!


and a video as promised

 

right on man!!

 

very nice! sounds awesome

 

Sounds great. You should get some junker tires and have some fun with that V8 for a while haha

 

woot, so awesome. sounds like its idleing kinda high. oh and you need higher quality video! haha

 

OK so upon further review JB WELD will not work to plug the hole in that header hole. Anyone know of a compound that would??

 

Weld.

 

Depending how much of a gap you have to fill, you can use copper RTV. I use it on headers all the time to help seal gaskets since it will withstand the temperatures.

 

Its hole about 1/8" in diameter.

 

get out the welder

 

no welder. plus there aluminum headers so def no tig welder

 

You could cover the 1/8th inch hole with the copper RTV.

 

how about the shop that did your exhaust, can they weld it up ?

 

Probably wouldnt go back there. I think the Copper RTV will work for what i need it to.


the plug on the right is what I filled. If anything i can take a dime size piece of metal,, or hell a dime. place it on top and the cover it all with Copper rtv.

 

or you could get real fancy and tap it and put some sealer on a bolt and screw that in there ! LOL Good luck

 

Picked up some permeatex liquid metal stuff, up to 2000 degrees. word. and another quart of tranny fuild. but since that stuff takes 4-6 hrs to cure and since its about 95 out and typical FL humidity, id rather sit inside and hang with mal, cook dinner, ad do it later when its cooler out.. ish lol

 

Like 9pm when if finally drops below 90? Unless it rains down by you this evening. It's been too damn hot out this month for me to even touch my truck...

 

Well if all goes according to plan truck should be ready to fire up in the a.m.. Yay

 

badassery

 

Mark could you get a measurement of how far the headers stick out from the block or valve cover on both sides. Mainly in the middle right where the shock towers are. Need to see if headers will clear my shock hoops,looks tight.

 

its tight. Ill be honest man my passenger header actually rests against the stock shock bucket and the left side control arm bracket.

 

so the permatex stuff worked pretty good and sealed that hole. still got the CEL and an idle issue, drives great tho, wow power!! so imma have to check that out tmw.

 

congrats that its going and everything, i got mine to the point where i can start it up, but it didn't :( ha.

 

What's taking Mal so long to wash it?

 

Good job!