Oh, you're talking about putting a gasket on the manifold flange. I was wondering what you could've found to put in the ball socket? I was thinking a neat way to fix it would be to get a groove cut around the "ball" and find a small cast ring that would fit in there. I know they do this on segmented Cummins manifolds and the like. ATS shouldn't have been so short sighted on this area.

 

I actually used the gaskets I am talking about on the ball/socket joints in the passenger side manifold to Y pipe as well as the cross over pipe connections.

NAPA part number 31311 is the gasket I used.

 

Yes, but I'm talking about the ball socket that is halfway up the turbo "up" casting. You didn't shove a gasket in there did ya?

 

That connection is solid with carbon.
No movement at all, and given the number of posts here lately where that connection was leaking, I am not going to disturb it.
That is why I pulled the engine to remove the intake manifold, but I am getting to old to work on an engine in-frame in a 4x4 anyway.

My son and I had it out, tore down, reassembled and reinstalled in 16 hours.
He is going to be a good diesel mechanic in a couple years if he wants to.
Sure asks enough questions for now though.
That is OK though, I can almost remember when I was 16.

 

well i got all the studs out but one broke it off, drilled it out retaped it and installed with new bolts grade 8, and anti sezied them and use the copper stuff in the can that said turbos, cleaned everything with a wire brush till i got to shiny metal, sprayed the parts and waited till they dried and installed them all. and in the process i found i had a leaking wheel axle seal on the rear had to take all that apart and fixed it.got it all back together, but the inner fender well. on the drivers side, will get in the morning and fire the truck up then. give it time for the sealer to seal.

 

Sounds like you are making progress.

 

hey dave,
when i had my idi ... i wrapped the crossover pipe with exhaust tape to keep the heat in the system on the way over to the turbo. I did notice that made a difference in the boost.
It is the heat that spins the turbine.
I do enjoy the posts that appear in hear too. I've been getting too old to do much of anything but read and attempt to offer info in here. And that Malcolm is on a great learning curve this year. (hahaha) later, bill

 

Bill I did double layers of header wrap on both the cross over and the up pipe to keep as much heat as possible in the exhaust. More heat means larger volume of exhaust gas, larger volume of exhaust gas moving through a confined space means more velocity, more exhaust velocity spins the turbo faster, faster spinning turbo means more boost.

Something as simple as a couple rolls of header wrap gave me several pounds of extra boost through the entire RPM range.

Each of the things I have done only made small differences in the power output.
But when you start adding 5 here and 10 there and 20 over there through each of them, it does add up to something fun to drive.

Looking at my progression from day one to where my truck is now, the only huge gain I made anywhere was the turbo from NA. Everything else was a small gain here and there, but when the small gains were all added up they probably exceed the huge gain the turbo made.

It would be truely interesting to have a dyno and make each change alone and see what each one gave as an increase alone.
Where the problem comes in with mods and recommending which to do first is that each mod builds on others.
Would I have noticed as big a gain with the ram air if I did not have the 3" exhaust on first? I doubt it would have been as dramatic.

I tried propane before and was rather unimpressed, but adding it to all the other mods I have done, whew what a difference it made.

Building an IDI diesel or any other motor is just like building a brick wall.
One brick all alone is not impressive, but if you build a good foundation and then stack enough bricks together laying one on top of the other you can wind up with a very impressive structure.

When I look at my truck, Ford built me a good foundation in 1986.
And I just keep on adding bricks to the foundation.

 

what are the stage 1 injectors gonna cost ya

 

THAT is exactly what I tried to tell people when they were giving me flack about a turbo being the only way to make any significant gains, and that I was wasting my time with little mods that only gained me 2 or 3 or 5 HP. Each individual mod may not add much, but collectively they add up to something. Fact is, I'm pretty happy & satisfied with where mine is right now. Add a little propane to up the mileage and add even just that little bit more uumph and I'll be satisfied.

BTW Dave, you have a job during the day, and you plow snow at night, and you pull your engine and replace every gasket in the top end on a weekend just to try and squeeze just a little more out of it. WHEN DO YOU SLEEP?!?

 

dave found a traffic light in west by golly where he takes a nap (while its red).

 

Don't forget the several hours I spend in here almost every evening.

I live on about 3 or 4 hours of sleep and several pots of coffee every day.

Actually since I plowed snow all night, there was no dirt digging going on the next day.
We dig dirt when the weather is good, plow snow when it is bad. Works out good for us, we have work every day snow or shine. We have contracts at the local mall and about 120 other businesses for snow removal. That keeps everyone with the company and several sub contractors busy for about 12 hours with 3 to 4 inches of snow.

That little extra power did in another U joint plowing Sunday night, so I had a nice little job last evening replacing U joints.