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Old Aug 21, 2017 | 01:25 PM
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Originally Posted by z31freakify
Driver side manifold, up pipes, late 99 pedestal and turbo, fab up some IC pipes or use the super duty ones and extend them to fit, intake spider and 3"plenums, down pipe flange and IC boots that's about it lol.... i had most of this stuff laying around if you ain't got all this stuff it's not worth spending all your money, just go with what you have and do a T4 set up.

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I have a 6.0 IC and had to to put a "C" channel on the frame to space out the sway bar down
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My drivers side manifold is warped and leaking at the rear anyway. Any thoughts on these parts? Didn't you do something that made the turbo removal easier, maybe van parts? Where did you source a flange for the down pipe, and what size is it? I have an AFE turbo back exhaust now.
 
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Old Aug 21, 2017 | 03:04 PM
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Oh you want the freakify MOD on the tech folder. Yes you actually need the e99 super duty pedestal, turbo center cartridge and spider and pipes, and you can RE use your driver side manifold but the late 99+ bellow up pipes won't work unless you swap the turbo pedestal.
 
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Old Nov 3, 2017 | 07:35 PM
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Man the truck has been doing so good that I havent posted nothing lately, well except today, it started to get in the low 40´s and my injectors showed their true colors. If you all can remember when i had coolant on my oil from when the truck gave out i ran it for some time and well, it came back to chew my ***, dam..... Im probably going to send another set of injectors to Jim and maybe turn them into 160/80 or 100´s still thinking about it, my tranny is just on borrowed time but the dam thing keeps going (knock on wood) but will have to get address sooner or later lol.... And im sure if get the bigger injectors thats when hell will brake loose.
So should I stay with stock nozzel, 80%, or go to 100%?
 
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Old Nov 3, 2017 | 10:03 PM
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I have the stock nozzle and they do awesome. Can't advise on bigger. What 'true colors' were your injectors showing?
 
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Old Nov 3, 2017 | 10:36 PM
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Hard cold start, excessive raw fuel smell even when up to temp, and yes the GPR is working as well as the GP´s. I have at least 2 or 3 giving problems the truck dies if I dont give it a bit of throttle at the first cold start of the day. This has been happening for the last 2 months but today was even worst with the truck dying, they did this when I sent them to Jim when i had him converted to stage 1´s and with all the sludge coolant mess im sure i took some out. Whoops....
 

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Old Nov 3, 2017 | 11:02 PM
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You really should move to warmer weather !
 
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Old Nov 4, 2017 | 08:32 AM
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Im in southern NM I think its hot enough as it is lol.... We get these climate swings here once in a while.
 
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Old Jul 3, 2018 | 12:35 PM
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Not a whole lot has happened with the Mule, except a blown vaccum pump last week.
heres some pics of the failed bearing



What gave it away was the smell of burning rubber (serpentine belt slipping on the vacuum pump pulley) surprisingly there was no squeak or odd noises before it gave out.
 
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Old Jul 3, 2018 | 12:36 PM
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That's what happened to mine when it went.,, except I lost all power breaks and AC.
 
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Old Jul 3, 2018 | 01:34 PM
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I still had ac and power steering functioning due to the serpentine belt still riding on the pulleys, but with a seized vaccum pump i had hard brakes. The funny thing is the broken vaccum pump still works when you spin it by hand, minus the shattered bearing.
 
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Old Jul 3, 2018 | 03:38 PM
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Mine seized, then broke free in January of this year. :/ Not cool! At least I was able to limp it back and park it.
 
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Old Jul 3, 2018 | 10:07 PM
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Installed the new vacuum pump today, and instead of re using the old bolts I went ahead and installed studs instead, and I'll tell you what its worth it, no more removing the pulley to re use them in the even of a future failure. I had some new left over 5.4 2v exaust manifold studs that were the same thread pattern as the vacuum pump bolts.



Dam i was posting pics up but dont have a picture of it installed, ill post one in the morning if anybody is interested.
 
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Old Jul 4, 2018 | 08:52 AM
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Where did you buy the VP? brand?. What size are the studs?
 
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Old Jul 4, 2018 | 09:25 AM
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It was under warranty, and its a Cardone VP, not sure on the thread pitch or size, believe thry are M10-1.5 60mm?
 
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It was under warranty, and its a Cardone VP, not sure on the thread pitch or size, believe thry are M10-1.5 60mm?
Thank you Adam.
 
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