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The RTT’s are pretty adaptable. I mounted mine to an SD style rack (which has side rails) on top of my D2. Because it was on the side rails it was a bit higher and I had to buy the short ladder extension that is about a foot and a half or two feet long. As for getting five people into a RTT...

The hose connects to the metal tube on passenger side that basically just Tee’s into the longer one behind the plenum which then connects to the valves on each side. Make sure the little vacuum lines that run from the control solenoid to each valve are hooked up and not broken. It’s not all that...

I've had kind of a different experience. We bought our ‘01 D2 in 2007 with 50k miles on it. It was in excellent condition at the time and over the following 10 years and 100k miles it has never left me stranded and always made it home. I had the usual throttle body heater leaks (finally...

Great video, I enjoyed it very much. I can see a lot of effort went into recording and composing it. As for the negative comments - where is that coming from? Why? I don't get it at all. That guy has some real issues.

You could try borrow a 3 Amigos reset module or, if there are no current existing faults I believe the 3 Amigos will go off on their own after a number of cycles.

Voyager makes a good rack, same style as old UK made Safety Devices rack. I agree it looks ridiculous but that starts when you mount a roof top tent up there which honestly, I was not completely sold on but it sure was nice out on the trail especially late afternoon when it was hot and all the...

White Rim Trail was a 100 mile loop but because the Green River was flooded at the western end it was 200 miles out and back plus 60 miles round trip from trailhead to nearest fuel so regardless of how it looked it worked.

It seems there are a lot of people that are 100% against putting anything on the roof and I think alot of that is based on perception rather than experience. I originally bought a Voyager rack (US built SD clone) simply because I thought they looked cool but after installing it I figured I may...

I bought a 2001 SE7 ten years ago that had 50,000 miles on it that now has 149,000. Had all of the usual stuff - throttle body heater leak, head gasket leak, rear air bags leak, ACE banjo fitting leak, front drive shaft rebuild and 3 amigos. All of them are fixable, did all the work myself other...

I mounted mine right front and made a skinny ladder that mounts to the rack to use when filling them. As mentioned earlier you're not going to be lifting full Jerry cans up there in fact most of the time they are going to be empty. You're only going to put fuel in them when you are going on a...

A couple of wild guesses here but it sounds as if it's a possibility that the "Audi mechanic" may have reused the head bolts when he did the gaskets which is something you can't do since they are torque to yield type bolts. When you did the 3 Amigos fix did you do the PCB bypass or did you...

One of the last tools I bought was a vacuum bleeder. It sucks all of the air out of the system after which you can check for leaks by seeing if it holds. Then you stick the inlet hose into your jug of new coolant, open the valve and it sucks it in with no air. Very easy to use with no mess. It...

You're probably right about 210 for the fan I'm going on memory. I went through all of this last year coming back from my Utah expedition when my truck began overheating every time I tried to climb a hill. I tried new fan, thermostat, pressure cap, radiator and water pump to no avail. I ended up...

There is a lot of controversy and misinformation out there concerning D2 coolant temps and frankly I think some people freak out over it unnecessarily. Consider for one thing that at the designed system pressure the boiling point of a 50/50 coolant mix is 260 deg F. The electric fan does not...

I mounted a RTT on mine but I did have to add the short ladder extension. Also my rack is the low profile version.

Or a Voyager, clone of SD rack. None of them come apart and all of them are good racks.

I tested/cleaned all my injectors by manually pressurizing with a hypodermic plunger filled with carb cleaner. Apply 12 volts and observe the spray pattern. The problem with the Bosch engine is you can't even get to the injectors without pulling the plenum off so it's a major pita. I never...

IMO the 4.6 with flanged liner mod and other upgrades is a good motor with the only downside being the fuel consumption. They are silky smooth and generally do not leak or burn oil. I have had good experiences with mine.

The receipt shows $5k for a 4.6 short block which could possibly be (should have been) one with flanged liner mod so that is more than just new head gaskets. I just priced out a complete build and it comes out to around six grand doing all the labor myself (the liner mod itself is $1500) All of...

These are good trucks if everything is properly sorted. The 4.6 is a nice upgrade. I have a nearly identical 2001 that I've put over 100,000 miles on over the past ten years but I've invested in it with engine, general maintenance and such. Yes you can find cheap D2's all day long and buying any...