Question for cranetruck

[Banshee365]

Hey Bjorn, I remembered you wrote an article for MV Magazine about a turbo conversion. Later this week I'm planning on removing all the old N/A exhaust and putting the turbo and new clean air kit on. Was there anything difficult about the install or anything you ran into? Looks like I might need to cut the hole in the fender bigger and I also saw something on the plans that showed cutting away an apron or something. Thanks for the help in advance. I still have to pull the old turbo and oil lines off the donner engine under a tarp but that hopefully shouldn't take long. Hoping to do this in an evening.

-Kelly

 

[Recovry4x4]

Kelly, since he's out criusing the countryside, I'll try to help. You will need to open up the hole in the fender a bit. I did mine with the hot wrench without problems. The inner skirt of the fender will need to be trimmed in most cases. Other than that, its a pretty straigh forward swap. There is a large pipe plug in the block where the turbo oil drain goes. That thing is a pain to get out. When I did my first one I had to use heat. It's got a square head and you just can't get a pipe wrench on it. After the fact I realized it was the same 13/16 square as the budd thimbles, so if you have a factory lug wrench or a 13/16 budd socket (not the combo socket) you should be better off than I was. Also, the last thing I would install is the oil feed line. Once everything else is done, I would pour some oil in the turbo then install the line. Let me know if you hit any snags, I've done the conversion. Also, if there is a guard unit near by, it always helps to look a a turbo truck before you do the swap. I can help with pics too.

 

[Banshee365]

Thanks alot for the help Ken, hope to meet up with you soon. I'll be parked right next to a turbo dump truck so I cant just look at that for the bracket locations and stuff. I'll let you know how it goes.

-Kelly

 

[Deuceswild]

Kelly,

If you are interested, I have the PDF file that Bjorn sent me which contains pretty much everything you need to know when doing the conversion, its a great tool, and it certainly helped me out. Its the one which he did for MV Magazine some time ago and it was very helpful.
Let me know if I can help you out.

Jeff.