Project Kermit
Aug 13, 2009 | 04:13 PM
#492
If the threads are indeed riped out, do the heli coil style repair. Its the easyiest/ cheapes for your application. there more then strong enough! Alot of companys with after market aluminum Heads and other products use them all the time. There even found in aluminum Blocks. Dont believe me Call your buddy Richard @WCCH He will give you the scoop. Tell him to get to work Too! LMAO J/P Richard...
Just cuz you don't drive a gas truck no more you think your better than us!! 
Aug 14, 2009 | 12:19 AM
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Thanks, I like my workbench too! I wondering if I should put on the bazillion automotive stickers I have, every time I buy a bolt from someone they send me a huge sticker of their company.
Bite me!!!
Is your wife back from visiting family in Tx? How you doing big fella? Or small fella, now that your being fed right!!
Aug 17, 2009 | 01:57 AM
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Who's build is this and why's it taking so DAMN LONG?!?! 
Dave gave me his old retainer clips from his truck so I was able to get the oil cooler lines hooked up!!
Also got most of the wiring hooked up. Dusty does this look right?
One ground wire on the back of the block (the one from the passenger side injector loom)...
And Two of them on the back of the Driver's side head (The braided one and the one that's in the same loom as the cam and crank sensor clips)...
Got the Fuel line bracket bolted up to the back of the tranny as well...
Definitely want to point something out here, for myself as well as for anyone who is doing something like this for the first time, you can learn from my dumb *** mistake. When you install the tranny...don't, DON'T drop the fuel lines and tuck them somewhere out of the way so that they won't get in the way of installing the tranny. Leave them pressed up in the tunnel on top of the tranny while you lift the tranny into place.
I slid them on the side of the tunnel as you can see in these pictures...
And that was a rookie mistake!! It's next to impossible to bend or squeeze those lines back onto the top of the tranny with the engine in when they are laying beside the tranny. My first inclination was to rip the lines out and just buy some Braided fuel lines and run them all the way back to the fuel tank but that would of been a bigger headache I'm sure. Next idea was to pull the tranny back out and install it with the lines on top of the tranny as they should be, but my face didn't want a repeat episode of what happened last time. So I called a friend and he suggested dropping the rear cross-member and being mindful of the stuff in the engine bay and the firewall, drop the tail shaft as much as possible and see if that gives me enough room to squeeze the lines back up top. Luckily that did give me enough room to get those lines back up top, without having to pull the tranny!! 
Having got through that I decided to hook up the heater hoses and coolant hoses...
Also hooked up this long hose to the coolant cross-over tube vent. Is that vent where any air in the coolant system makes it's way back into the radiator and into the overflow tank...
...
The hose originates from the radiator so I assume it's the correct place to stick it?
After that I spend an hour or so playing with the intake, cleaned up the Throttle body, and screwed around with a couple fuel line fittings I have...
I'm waiting on some more fittings and gaskets from summit to arrive shortly and when they do I can...
1) Bolt on the intake
2) Route the fuel lines
3) Hook the starter up
4) Fix the stripped threads from the engine cooler lines
5) Buy the A/C belt, main belt, and some spark plugs and throw them on
7) Bolt on the headers and Y-pipe
8) Throw on an intake tube
9) Finish the wiring
10) Bolt in the Bell housing cover that's taken forever to find
11) Fill the truck up with fluids
12) Flash in a tune and start the damn thing!!
Hopefully I can get this all done this week, unless I run into another catastrophe??
Dave gave me his old retainer clips from his truck so I was able to get the oil cooler lines hooked up!!
Also got most of the wiring hooked up. Dusty does this look right?
One ground wire on the back of the block (the one from the passenger side injector loom)...
And Two of them on the back of the Driver's side head (The braided one and the one that's in the same loom as the cam and crank sensor clips)...
Got the Fuel line bracket bolted up to the back of the tranny as well...
Definitely want to point something out here, for myself as well as for anyone who is doing something like this for the first time, you can learn from my dumb *** mistake. When you install the tranny...don't, DON'T drop the fuel lines and tuck them somewhere out of the way so that they won't get in the way of installing the tranny. Leave them pressed up in the tunnel on top of the tranny while you lift the tranny into place.
I slid them on the side of the tunnel as you can see in these pictures...
And that was a rookie mistake!!
It's next to impossible to bend or squeeze those lines back onto the top of the tranny with the engine in when they are laying beside the tranny. My first inclination was to rip the lines out and just buy some Braided fuel lines and run them all the way back to the fuel tank but that would of been a bigger headache I'm sure. Next idea was to pull the tranny back out and install it with the lines on top of the tranny as they should be, but my face didn't want a repeat episode of what happened last time. So I called a friend and he suggested dropping the rear cross-member and being mindful of the stuff in the engine bay and the firewall, drop the tail shaft as much as possible and see if that gives me enough room to squeeze the lines back up top. Luckily that did give me enough room to get those lines back up top, without having to pull the tranny!! Having got through that I decided to hook up the heater hoses and coolant hoses...
Also hooked up this long hose to the coolant cross-over tube vent. Is that vent where any air in the coolant system makes it's way back into the radiator and into the overflow tank...
...The hose originates from the radiator so I assume it's the correct place to stick it?
After that I spend an hour or so playing with the intake, cleaned up the Throttle body, and screwed around with a couple fuel line fittings I have...
I'm waiting on some more fittings and gaskets from summit to arrive shortly and when they do I can...
1) Bolt on the intake
2) Route the fuel lines
3) Hook the starter up
4) Fix the stripped threads from the engine cooler lines
5) Buy the A/C belt, main belt, and some spark plugs and throw them on
7) Bolt on the headers and Y-pipe
8) Throw on an intake tube
9) Finish the wiring
10) Bolt in the Bell housing cover that's taken forever to find
11) Fill the truck up with fluids
12) Flash in a tune and start the damn thing!!
Hopefully I can get this all done this week, unless I run into another catastrophe??