My brother wants to know how to take the up pipes off his 7.3 PSD. He has herd you have to take the manfolds off, pull the engine out of the truck, or lossen the bolts and jack the engine up. Are there outher ways outher then those ways?

 

It's not an easy job, but you don't have to do all that. Take bolts out of the clamps at the collector on the back of the turbo, then remove the bolts from the clamps at the manifold. Hopefully the donut gaskets will slide on the pipes so you can push them into the collector enough to pull them away from the manifolds and down and out. It takes some swivels and extensions to get at all the bolts, and some wiggling and prying to gat them out, but it can be done. If you have to, you can pull the turbo and make it a little easier to get the pipes out.

 

Bill you forgot to add that there will be swearing involved

 

LOL! Yeah, I was gonna let them figure that one out on their own Even a man that doesn't swear will probably mumble a few choice words under his breath LOL! I think I have made up some new cuss words messing with up pipes! LOL! Me personally, and this is just me, I will drop the trans and work on up pipes now before I fight with them. It's worth it to me.

 

i had to put a jack on the trans and lower it and to pull the drivers side out the bottom if i remember right. And yes there will definitely be some cussing involved. getting the new ones in was fun too i had the turbo out at the time, just and fyi. so i had some more wiggle room

 

I think Nathan went through the fender but maybe he had the fender off anyways. I don't know what you guys are complaining about. There easy to get to lol


Oh. Right

 

Is it any more diffcult then doing it on a SD? My brother did it on his SD with a lot of sweraing.

 

Red valve covers on an Int'l engine going into a Ford ?

I suspect it'd be a lot easier on an SD, since the truck was designed to accomodate the engine.

 

I like to be different. Besides. All my international tractors are red

 

Super duty is easier, there is more room.

 

I also vote for pulling the trans.... so much easier with it out of the way plus I've done trans pulls enough it doesn't take me long....

 

X2^^^^^^^^

 

I pulled the turbo and passenger side pipe. I left the driver side pipe connected to the collector and removed that pipe and the collector all in one shot. Re assembly was opposite order. get the swear word dictionary because you WILL be adding to it.

Nick the engine looks great! Thanks again for letting me assemble my pipes on your block.