This is true, ok, welding her up tonight then. If I remember I'll take pics.

Dont forget what I said about the exhaust side of the cooler, push the freeze plug in a little ways (if that's what you're using) and fill it with weld, it needs to hold up to the heat from the up-pipe.

well, got it done. Once again, overkill is evident. Instead of freeze plus I used 3/16 inch stainless plate. Beveled the edges and tig welded them in place, I plugged the two ends of the cooler and one on the up pipe. I set the plates a 1/4 inch into the openings. Got it all done and then welded my vertical up and overhead certifications..... then I got bored while waiting on them to cool, and broke out th mig and filled the ends of the ends of the cooler untill they were flush, ground it down, then polished it. I'll get the picks up later.

Haha, nice! That should do it. That's the inexpensive EGR delete setup!

SOB!!! This build may be cut real short. went to my shop on saturday, and low and behold I find my door has been forced open. All of my tools are now gone. It's these damn scrappers in the area. Only reason I know it was them is because about 2000 pounds of my steel (not scrap, good stuff, still with the paint, which is worth way more to me then $265 a ton) plus about 1300 dollars worth of tools are gone.

I may have to sell this thing to make up some money. I got burnt last year for $9000 by R&R Construction out of Indianapolse. This crap is taking its toll.

That sucks to hear brother....

I think you have a crew cab right? Take the drivers side front door handle off and replace it with one from a rear door from a crew cab, it eliminates the key hole. Also look into Jimmy Jammers, very popular on our trucks. Inexpensive compared to being broke into as well.

Hope everything works out for ya!

Little Luke I like the bumper posted too... but my truck is all white so i want to get the 2008 work bumper its black, shiny and im sure it would paint better than a chrome bumper. For the front I really like the Road Armor bumpers but without top that blocks the grill.http://http://ok4wd.com/media/catalo.../1/p1-01_2.jpg

Ugh, back from the dead...

I'm on hold about the bumpers right now. Between my full time job, and two part time jobs, I've been alittle covered up. I've also got a guy wanting me to build him a prerunner bumper and roll bar for his ranger, so the stuff that pays comes first in line. I guess I need to invest in a camera so I can post some stuff, I cant get the photos off of my phone.
I guess for what its worth here is what I've got so far.
6.4 banjo bolts
upgraded fuel regulator spring
xcal 2, still needing some tunes
recon cab lights, smoked
homemade egr delete.
I just did some swapping with a boy for a 10ft stick of 5 inch exhaust pipe.
Just ordered a sinister coolant kit today.

I'm still scratching my head about a down pipe. I'm going to run a super truck style exhaust, and after lookin, I'm pretty sure I can take the 5 inch almost all the way up to were the down pipe shoots up to the turbo. I wont go that route if I get an after market downpipe though. Any input on this?

Side note. While digging around in my shop looking for a electric impact (which I believe was also stolen:argh:) I came across this electric fan I had for when I planned to turbo charge my station wagon. Would there be any benifit of setting it up as a pusher fan in front of the radiator? I think it is 16". It's already paid for so :w2:

oh, one more thing. I've got oil on the bottom half of the compressor side of the turbo:ouch:. What have I got here?

Ok, I'm done.

anything bigger than a 3.5" downpipe is going to be a PITA to get in and keep off the firewall. I'd say just run it to the stock down pipe if you're trying to save money. Wont really notice much anyways.

Electric fans are not real popular with these, as I blieve the issue was trying to find a fan that was capable of pulling the CFM's of the stocker, and I don't think there are any options out there. If you don't tow at all, maybe, but if you do, keep the stocker.

Could be a turbo seal.

I plan on keeping the stocker on, just thinking of adding the electric one as an auxilory for when I do tow. its rare I make a long haul, but my boss does come up with some auctions 4 or 5 hrs away where I will be bringing back around 10000 lbs of equipment.