Nothing too exciting, but made a little more progress today. Added an overflow tank in the fender in case the radiator ever blows off pressure





Had to flip the horn around to make it fit



Zip tied the heater hoses to complete the install once and for all



Cleaned up another set of uppers and I'm going to put OEM bushings in these. Right now my Belltech camber bushings in the arms on the truck are making it very hard to align, it's all the way bottomed out just to get 0 camber, so I'm going to go back to OEM

 

thanks for the info.

 

Do you have the offset bushing turned the right way to correct alignment? Lifted trucks basically want to pull the UCA in, and you want to push it out on lowered stuff.

 

Yes, they're correct. I needed them on my torsion bar truck, and when I had the VAS arms (which are 1/2" longer than stock) but with the ridetech arms, everything is oem spec and the arms are sucked all the way in just to barely get 0 camber. This doesn't allow for any caster adjustment, so I need oem bushings. I had a slammed coil spring 2wd truck in 2010 and it had oem arms and aligned perfectly. I'll be selling the upper arms that have flipped balljoints with the Belltech bushings in them

 

All of my AN fittings, wrenches and vice kit came in today, so I assembled the lines. Very happy with the results and the routing of them.





120° fitting on driver side



45° fitting on passenger side







Also went to the junkyard and got a 4 corner steam tube setup, cleaned it and threw some engine enamel on it





Took the o rings from the oem lines





Also scored a clockspring for steering wheel controls to put back in the daily driver. The steam tube and harness were $20 total. Last time I got a clockspring harness on eBay I paid like $120+

 

AC line was leaking since I got the truck, so got an AC delco replacement










While the system was discharged, I moved the AC line by the turbo to get it away from the heat




Pulled the steering wheel to put in the daily driver and ordered a brand new OEM wheel

 

Finished the main engine harness wire tuck this evening. I knows its not a shocking transformation with the stock intake manifold, but you have to image how nice it will look when I have a hi-ram or edelbrock manifold and there are no visible wires running across the engine









Where the harness runs with the fender liner removed for visual

 

turned out great!

 

It was way too much work, and with the truck on jackstands my back is killing me. Should have done this with it on the ground...


Trying to finish the little details which always seem to take the longest. Got the wastegate hooked back up and also ran the wiring for the wideband. Would have been cleaner to incorporate it into the OEM harness before I loomed it, but then I couldn't easily remove it in case I ever need to.





Intake manifold is installed and torqued, fuel rail hooked back up with stock injectors for now, charge pipe tightened back down. Just need to find a way to secure the oil supply line and run the MAF/vacuum line for BOV



The coolant tank that started this whole damn project is finally fully plumbed



The only big thing left is to figure out where to mount the coil packs, build spark plug wires, and wrap the rest of the harness.

 

You, sir, are one hell of a plumber.