Yeah, packing tape! Crazy isnt it.

I am sure he will take care of the injectors as well! He stands by his work! Does good work as well! Gotta pull that glow plug just to make certain it's not damaged.

 

He just got the injectors see what he finds out next week. Got the y pipe, down pipe, the pipe right after that, and the exhaust manifolds wrapped and painted. What a pain in the eye, yeah I wasn't wearing safety glasses when I cleaning the factory ridges and seems off the manifolds. Did some digging and research and found a good 2000 degree silicon paint ford blue. Should look good on the wrap. I will post some pics when I put the headers and pipes in tomorrow.

Who is the best at building tunes for the sct? I don't want any problems so I might as well start right.

Gonna run a cover on the turbo and on the intercooler piping from Heat Shield products. Running the cfm plus large mouth intake and pipe. Think it would be worth while covering the afe stage 2 intake pipe? Maybe insulate the box that the filter and battery will sit in?

 

Here the exhaust just got it all put back in.

 

Nice. Wonder how much it will help with spool up? Interesting.

When we used to wrap our four wheeler head pipes, we'd soak the wrap in water first to loosen it up, then wrap it as tight as possible, and when it dried out it tightened right up. Then we'd spray a high temp sealer/clear coat over it to help prevent it from getting soaked when we rode in wet conditions. When it got wet repeatedly without that, it would actually rot the exhaust apart. Even good stainless systems. I doubt a truck would have these issues though.

 

Yeah soaking it with water helps it tighten up real good. Same paint just blue. Any ideas on who the best tuner for the sct would be? I will let you know about the spool up that's why I wrapped em! Headers where a pain in the butt though.

 

I've always wanted to ceramic coat mine (the inside, like it's supposed to be done).

Innovative Diesel
GoGo
Gearhead

All good tuners.

 

Well... good thing I didn't erase the chalk board talked to warren today. injectors where solid. Got 50% nozzles why they where there. Though I forgot to ask him if he tested before or after the nozzles. I am thinking of putting it together when i get the injectors on friday and starting it up.

The drawing board says:
truck started hard banged a bit then kinda smoothed out after five or 10 minutes of sitting at idle. then ran like it had a bad miss would sometimes stall.
There was a lot of pressure coming out of the oil fill tube,
injectors where tight, so it seemed, ringes looked good, no extra copper washers and the looked good.
injector codes on #2 and #6 same bank,
#2 exhaust port was the only wet port after 3 weeks of letting the truck sit. All others had been firing.
drivers side exhaust manifold had some loose bolts in it. new gaskets and some customization
flange on factory y pipe was bent which was replaced with a long y pipe.
wet substance in exhaust port smelled like diesel.
ficm was sent to swamps and tested good.
ipr screen clear replaced ipr anyway 160k on it ya know.
icp sensor seemed ok though it was also hi mileage so I replaced that
all updates have now been changed or completed. sct, stands, dummy, blue fuel spring, turbo drain and oil tubes.
changed the oil and filter again cause of the oil temp sensor.
took out crappy cheap fuel filter and installed motor craft. did have a good bit of water in there when I drained it.

hmmm big ticket items unburnt fuel down in exhaust port lots of pressure coming out of fill tube and ccv. What do you think?
I have installed some gauges hpop, oil temp, and pyro.
I am thinking pull glow plug on #2 and #6 and see what they look like.

Saw your truck isn't running up to par whats goin on?

 

I just stopped into the dealer to look at my last work order, which was right before it went to the shop for the delete and studs. I saw that there where 2 glow plug codes, cylinder 2 and 6... Pain in the butt not remembering that stuff. I figured since both glow plug harness's where mangled a bit I would replace em, and the glow plugs. Can't believe a glow plug would cause the problem with the cylinder no fire and the fuel in the exhaust port on the head. Thought diesels fired on compression? even if the glow plug didn't get hot enough wouldn't it pick up after a few rotations when compression heated things up? Need a class on this I guess...

 

They do fire on compression, but if the glow plug is also a sealing point, meaning if it's loose it will leak compression as well.

Glow plugs are cheap for these, but use motorcraft only and make sure you get them for the correct year, they were different lengths, so if you get a long one where a short is needed, it will hit the pistons.

 

I replaced all 8, and the harness's. Tig rod bent just right and the harness pops right off. Used all motor craft. tried to start it tonight cranked and cranked but not even a rough hint of a start. gonna check the ficm after I recharge the batteries make sure it , A. have voltage and B. umm did I hook it up right! I don't think you can plug it in wrong but with my luck . how long should this truck crank before it fires? Nothing appears to be leaking. Gonna double check the ipr wires and make sure they are on right.