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I talked to the folks at a regional turbo repair shop. They brought up a few points:
-This is a very old design (384 were built in 1969).
-While rebuild kits for a basic 4LE are available, housings and turbines are no longer supported by Borg Warner.
-Very few turbos had wastegates during...
Well, I put the D turbo back on. The best that I could get out of the LDS turbo was 8 psi and that was with the FDC bypassed and the temp rising fast. Swapping the D turbo back on with no other changes yielded 13 psi and much lower EGT.
I suspect that the wastegate valve is leaking or the...
Sure, but they are out there and only a phone call away. The acquisition cost may not be cheap but they are an EASY solution where there isn't much room for a belt driven pump.
There are CAD dwgs for the fame stiffener which make that component's fabrication trivial. You can use the frame stiffener and a hand drill to mod the frame. The 8.5" pitman arm on the 4-line boxes works fine, and the draglink is a simple sleeve that anyone with a lathe can make. Here are the...
I've been using ethanol fuel for the last 20 years in all of my vehicles (diesels excluded); 10 of those with a 302 as my daily driver without a problem.
"MANY kits"?? I am only aware of the following true kits:
military air assist
M35A2 Hydraulic power steering system
Trident Autotech » New Developments
What am I missing?
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