EBPV delete concerns
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EBPV delete concerns
Well I had to take my motor out to replace the oil pan. Now i'm going to delete my EBPV but my question is if I put a freeze plug in the turbo and gut the pedestal will it he prone to problems? Plug falling out? Pedestal leaking? I imagine if you do it right you won't have a problem. Some other threads I'm reading are saying the freeze plug falls out and the only way to do it is to buy the new pedestal and turbo exhaust piece. What's your guys opinions?
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I found a 1/2" clevis pin at the hardware store that fit nicely inside the bushing. I cut it off, put it in from the outside, contoured it to the round shape of the exhaust outlet and heliarc (that's TIG, for you young 'uns 
) welded it in place from the inside, with a small tack on the outside to the housing.
) welded it in place from the inside, with a small tack on the outside to the housing.
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I agree with you in worrying! I was all confident about doing the delete with the factory parts then a guy sad his freeze plugs fell out on him! Maybe he just did something wrong. I'm going to do it the inexpensive way so I'll find out I guess.
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I have no clue. What puzzles me about this whole ebpv idea is I have a 12 valve cummins and it doesn't have anything like an ebpv. The cummins has a grid heater and the 7.3 has a air heater thing aswell(whatever you want to call it). I live in northern indiana and we had some really cold days this winter in the negatives and my truck still started but the inline filter before the lift pump plugged up and that's what made my truck stop running so I guess I'll get rid of that pre filter before winter so I don't have that problem again. But my point is even at negative temperatures my truck wasn't getting warm so does the ebpv help all that much and worth the fuel loss? I don't know.
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The only purpose of the air intake heater on the 7.3, from my understanding, is to reduce white smoke while idling in cold weather. And the truck has to either be in park for auto, and neutral with park brake set in a manual for it to operate.
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Do you mean while idling it doesn't warm up? Same here when it's only 30 out.
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It does with the ebpv kicked on but it's so slow to warm up I'm better off driving it I think and it seems to guzzle the diesel big time when the ebpv is active. Is that normal?