I've lurked, responded, asked and now it's time to colorize the pages. I bought my truck fifteen years ago off of Ebay. I'm in central Florida, the truck was in Stevens Montana. I paid 27,410 dollars for a one owner truck that had 36K miles on it. The old man bought it for his wife to pull a trailer and she didn't like how long it all was so the truck just sat. The old man sold it to the car dealer that I bought it from for 15k. The truck is a conversion done by Roll Along out of California, Leather interior, fender flares (no visible screws on the fenders), stainless running boards, wood grain trim, MT wheels that I love, big bumpers with cheesy lights. I still have the window sticker. I drove it 2,600 miles in two and a half days to get home. The truck would not go faster than 80MPH on the way home, no intercooler. Two weeks after I got it home I learned what oil in the valley will do to IPR wires. That was my first diesel truck fix, an IPR pigtail. Not long after that I had a friend install a wicked wheel, I put in a CX Racing intercooler that worked wonderfully but prior to the writing, the upper support bracket was broken at each end and one of the core support mounts is broken but it's for sale. I sent the injectors to Full Force and had them opened up to 180/0 single shots and my friend put them in with a cast Adrenaline. New TS six position chip but I was never really impressed, but again I'm the old man driver. I knew nothing about injector numbers back then but I have no regrets as I'm the old man driver and I don't see 3K RPM too often. A few years later I got a Marty's e-kit and was nervous about taking an air saw to the factory fuel lines but throwing that filter assembly into the scrap bin felt wonderful. I mounted the regulator high up on the HPOP reservoir as you can see here. The left line went to the right head and vise versa. Over the years I've resealed the HPOP and that dumb plug but it too was leaking prior to this. Hey, A Banks intercooler was on sale so get that too! It's 11:30 so I'll finish this up later. It'll take a few days as I still got to install the AMP folding steps along with the OBS Solutions bracket kit. I've put the running boars on FB Marketplace and got three hits in a week. The turbo is also for sale, no shaft movement whatsoever as it's been fed T6 15-40 since I got the truck and we did bearings while it was apart.


What started this maniacal ordering of parts was I needed a new aluminum radiator, the third in six years. I've since learned about how to defeat electrolysis. Well, the water pump has 80K on it so let's do that too. The second thing that prompted this was the guy Daniel with the Polar Express truck. I hope he's OK, I've reached out to him a couple of times with no response. I was asking him about his T4 setup and what size was his turbo and he was the one that told me KC was coming out with a new design in the same footprint with some pretty bold claims. He said be patient and wait, thank you sir. A year and a half later I believe it comes out and I got one as soon as they became available. I'm a small business owner and I've been humpin' some cable first quarter so off to the races I went. I paid someone to install the new turbo and the up pipes that came with it. I had stainless Riff Raff's on it but since they were new they went on. The turbo comes with the old up pies as well (hint, hint). I've done everything else my self except the new interior. Here's a few of what was.


The new turbo with Funk Motorsports turbo blanket is installed in the last photo but that was taken right before the major surgery. It's late and I need to put up more pictures but I'll get this finished out over hopefully not more than one week. Enjoy.

 

I've no idea why everything is underlined. Here's the first ordeal, VC's and plugs. The original under hood harness had to get modified when I got some VC gaskets that had two injectors miswired.