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I need to do mine and am planning on doing it in the driveway. My take is that people are replacing their up-pipes for EGR deletes all the time without lifting the cab, I have to imagine that taking the other side out shouldn't be too much more difficult, but I won't know for sure until April when I do mine.
Well I called Ford and asked them to quote me the job to have my up pipes replaced...
He said it would be $1,759.00 for the job.
He told me they might pull the cab or the tranny...
I was shocked. I thought it was something I could do in my drive way...
So its going in next Tuesday just to make sure its really my up pipes leaking...Not just a bad seal around the trubo....
I was really shocked when another ford tech said he will do it on the side for $200
So do they really have to do that? Or can it be done in the driveway?
It IS something you can do in the driveway. No reason to pull the cab OR the transmission. That's sheer stupidity on the dealership/SA's part. You will have to pull the turbo and FICM, but I assure you it can be done in the driveway. I've done more than one.
I had exhaust smell in my cab when I had anything but Max A/C (recirc) on. Someone on here mentioned putting some weather stripping where the hood comes down, so I went by HD and put a large strip across and no exhaust smell in cab for over a year.
It IS something you can do in the driveway. No reason to pull the cab OR the transmission. That's sheer stupidity on the dealership/SA's part. You will have to pull the turbo and FICM, but I assure you it can be done in the driveway. I've done more than one.
Turbo is the fun part. Those turbos are heavy and gravity doesn't help you at all, even putting it back in.