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The body bolts coming up from the bottom are coated with the blue locktite. They came out so hard, 3 cage nuts on the topside broke loose, causing me extra work to get to the nuts, and hold them while turning the bolts. All together, about 5 hours.
If it wasn't for the cage nuts, it wouldn't be too bad. At my age, not having to lay across the engine for several hours is a plus!Great pics vince, looks like the cab lift went pretty smoothly; sure looks like it reduces the amount of skin you leave on a truck when doing any engine service.
I'm finding a lot of play, and movement in the expansion joints (no soot tracks). We got all of the pipes, so they all get changed. The gasket between the turbo and down pipe shows signs of leakage. It had to be something that was intermittent, and took a lot of boost and backpressure to leak.Great pictures Vince.
What an exhaust plumbing nightmare, looks like they took all the leftovers from the spare parts box to make that exhaust tangle.
So where is the up pipe cracked?
Geeze-O-Pete, I'm glad you told what that was......It looked like the pictures from a colonoscopy!!!there's a closeup of the quick disconnect on the top radiator hose
You can see the three expansion joints in this picture. When I loosened the down pipe, it jumped up 1". All of these components are supposed to be "unloaded" or not under stress. I'm going to make sure they have been assembled properly before dropping the body back on it.here's another
