Put in my gauges and gauge pod today. Dual pod w/ boost and egt. Routed all the wires and plumbing. The backlights aren't wired in yet and the egt gauge needs to be hooked to keyed power, but those shouldn't be too painful. I got that massive bundle of hoses/whatever clamped away from the up pipe with I believe enough clearance but I'm not sure the dog house is going to clear my solution. If it doesn't I think a BFH will get my bracket under control.
Still need to get a piece of flex pipe to join the exhaust to the turbo down pipe temporary till I can get t to the exhaust shop, but I couldn't resist twisting the key.
Took some cranking but fired up and smoothed out after a minute. Couple issues. Water in fuel light is on, which is probably just a bad or forgotten connection. Not sure which connector that is without looking it up.
For some reason my boost gauge doesn't read. As far as I can tell it's strictly mechanical, with nothing more than a bit of tubing connecting it to the intake cap.
And the really really REALLY disappointing one. Ive got a massive fuel leak coming from somewhere I don't have a clue. I can see the connections at the fuel filter and nothing is leaking. I can see all the injectors and fuel return lines and can't see any leaking. I can see that little triangle plate that hides the fuel screw (thought that was going to be it) and can't see any leaking.
It's running to the back of the engine from under the intake somewhere up forward, from someplace I can't see, drains through a hole at the back of the engine, and then runs down the side of the block dripping out all over the starter.
The only thing I messed with fuel related was the lines at the filter. I loosened them when relocating that mess forward, but tightened them back up and I can see they aren't leaking. And I ran a new line to join the two sides of the fuel return system. It was a hose supplied by Hypermax and runs from a T fitting on the drivers side, up forward under the intake and then around the front passenger side of the intake, and then back down the passenger side to connect at the rear of the engine. I can't see that and I can't see the back bottom part of the injection pump, but I didn't do anything to the pump.
Huge bummage here because to see any of that stuff I pretty much have to yank everything back out to have any kind of access. My only simple chance is to pull out that fuel return hose from Hypermax and see f it has a split in it or something. I can access each end without removing anything else, and could probably fish a new hose back around without too much trouble, but with my luck so far I'm not holding out that it will be that simple.
But it freakin runs! Yayyyy.
Still need to get a piece of flex pipe to join the exhaust to the turbo down pipe temporary till I can get t to the exhaust shop, but I couldn't resist twisting the key.
Took some cranking but fired up and smoothed out after a minute. Couple issues. Water in fuel light is on, which is probably just a bad or forgotten connection. Not sure which connector that is without looking it up.
For some reason my boost gauge doesn't read. As far as I can tell it's strictly mechanical, with nothing more than a bit of tubing connecting it to the intake cap.
And the really really REALLY disappointing one. Ive got a massive fuel leak coming from somewhere I don't have a clue. I can see the connections at the fuel filter and nothing is leaking. I can see all the injectors and fuel return lines and can't see any leaking. I can see that little triangle plate that hides the fuel screw (thought that was going to be it) and can't see any leaking.
It's running to the back of the engine from under the intake somewhere up forward, from someplace I can't see, drains through a hole at the back of the engine, and then runs down the side of the block dripping out all over the starter.
The only thing I messed with fuel related was the lines at the filter. I loosened them when relocating that mess forward, but tightened them back up and I can see they aren't leaking. And I ran a new line to join the two sides of the fuel return system. It was a hose supplied by Hypermax and runs from a T fitting on the drivers side, up forward under the intake and then around the front passenger side of the intake, and then back down the passenger side to connect at the rear of the engine. I can't see that and I can't see the back bottom part of the injection pump, but I didn't do anything to the pump.
Huge bummage here because to see any of that stuff I pretty much have to yank everything back out to have any kind of access. My only simple chance is to pull out that fuel return hose from Hypermax and see f it has a split in it or something. I can access each end without removing anything else, and could probably fish a new hose back around without too much trouble, but with my luck so far I'm not holding out that it will be that simple.
But it freakin runs! Yayyyy.
