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I have had one of the bracket style fittings break on me. The orings just blew out even though it did not seperate. I dont think that there is much wrong with the bracket style but I like the looks of this new on better. I have a truck torn down right now waiting for the new kit.

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Well I ended up putting the 2 piece fitting on the pump. The truck was torn apart in my stall, the parts dept. wants to get rid of theese 2 piece kits and they tell me that nobody has the new design yet. /forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/shrug.gif

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Well I ended up putting the 2 piece fitting on the pump. The truck was torn apart in my stall, the parts dept. wants to get rid of theese 2 piece kits and they tell me that nobody has the new design yet. /forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/shrug.gif

That makes me mad when they do that. They always try to get rid of shit on car's im working on, and I always argue with them that I want the updated part.

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I hear ya. I didn't want to tie up my stall, the customer needs thier work truck back, and I'm confident that he won't have any problems with the 2 piece set-up with the bracket.

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I don't really like the new one piece fitting, because when you try and torque the jam nut the plastic holding bracket flexes and the fitting ends up turned alittle. I just happened to have an old kit and used the metal bracket and some real bolts not the plastic stuff they give you. I've done 2 of the new style fittings this way and it seems to work a lot better.

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Yeah I discovered the steel bracket works good as a tool too. Had the same problem with the plastic tool you get. The fitting turns a little when torquing I guess an old bracket should go on that home made tools list

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You figure, instead of using the steel bracket as a guide, someone had to design the plastic piece, get a die made for the press and start a whole nother tooling job just to make a tool that fails? /forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/icon_crazy.gif

 

All they needed was to keep giving us the bracket to use as a guide

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Hey tony, its nick. just wanted to see what was going on seeing as this dts window is open constantly over here and i figured id say hi. Hey you gonna go to markys show on the 18?

Damn right, are you guys going? I have a whole book of TSB's printed out for Dave L so he doesn't have to use this site decreasing head scratching and downtime for marks rack (the trucks DAVE L puts on them /forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/hammer2.gif

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pretty sure i should make it, its ona friday and i do have to work in the morning but its only in harvard so im down.belive it or not hes only using one of his two racks right now, but its for a comeback so hes not really in anybody elses way....yet.

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no different truck, 6.0l came in with a turbo problem i think, so he pulled the trans out to make it easier then upsold a rear main seal and it came back just pissing oil all over, ended up being the high pressure oil pump cover gasket which he also replaced.

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Dave here, to clarify this clusterfuck before Nick makes this place look like a stew of baffling morons...

 

Truck came in with a Hot NO-Start, which I found was due to low cranking ICP when the EOT was hot. Only built 350psi.. No audible air leaks found, hotline recommends replaceing the STC fitting. So I did. Tested the truck, problem was still there. I took the liberty of yanking the dummy plug out of the left bank and sure enough, the lower O-ring was shot. Replaced, fixed the no-start condition. Noticed the rear main was leaking, so I replaced that as well after the no-start was fixed.

 

Truck came back a week later (yesterady) with oil EVERYWHERE, and puddled up inside the bellhousing too. Couldn't see any signs of leakage from up top, so I pulled the trans assuming the new rear main was botched up. But, once the trans was out, I found the rear main to be dry. With the trans out I was able to see that it was the HPOP cover that was leaking. Took it all apart assuming I'd see some bonehead mistake like no RTV or a loose bolt of something but it turns out that everything looks cherry, I can't find anything wrong with the cover, the O-ring, the block, everything was tight & RTV'd... for whatever reason it was just leaking from about 3 inches from the rear of the engine on the bank 1 side.

 

Replaced the HPOP cover seal again and I'm hoping that fixes it!

 

(Holy thread Hijack)

 

Dave

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Dave here, to clarify this clusterfuck before Nick makes this place look like a stew of baffling morons...

 

Truck came in with a Hot NO-Start, which I found was due to low cranking ICP when the EOT was hot. Only built 350psi.. No audible air leaks found, hotline recommends replaceing the STC fitting. So I did. Tested the truck, problem was still there. I took the liberty of yanking the dummy plug out of the left bank and sure enough, the lower O-ring was shot. Replaced, fixed the no-start condition. Noticed the rear main was leaking, so I replaced that as well after the no-start was fixed.

 

Truck came back a week later (yesterady) with oil EVERYWHERE, and puddled up inside the bellhousing too. Couldn't see any signs of leakage from up top, so I pulled the trans assuming the new rear main was botched up. But, once the trans was out, I found the rear main to be dry. With the trans out I was able to see that it was the HPOP cover that was leaking. Took it all apart assuming I'd see some bonehead mistake like no RTV or a loose bolt of something but it turns out that everything looks cherry, I can't find anything wrong with the cover, the O-ring, the block, everything was tight & RTV'd... for whatever reason it was just leaking from about 3 inches from the rear of the engine on the bank 1 side.

 

Replaced the HPOP cover seal again and I'm hoping that fixes it!

 

(Holy thread Hijack)

 

Dave

Dave put a motor in it.....that's what bill would have done. /forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/drinkingdude.gif

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6.0l came in with a turbo problem i think, so he pulled the trans out to make it easier
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Dave here, to clarify this clusterfuck before Nick makes this place look like a stew of baffling morons...
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I'm glad you straightened that out, I thought they might be givin you too long a lunch break and having to retrain you constantly over there. /forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/grin.gif
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