Blueberry Krunch

Mr Stubs · Apr 4, 2009

I have been busy with a bunch of boring stuff. The rear axle was cleaned and painted, armor added, spring perches welded on, magnet added to inside, button head bolts installed, rear axle bearings and seals replaced.

Now remember, I bought this axle housing already shaved......

Fabbed up a axle pad with the press in about 30 minutes....

I payed money last time for the rear bearing replacement. Not this time though, I bought a press a while ago and can do it myself.

Mr Stubs · Apr 7, 2009

The UPS guy stopped by

Painted with 2000* paint

dove'd85 · Apr 7, 2009

daym

is this going to be a propane motor?

Mr Stubs · Apr 18, 2009

Received the adapter that I ordered for the T-3 to stock turbo manifold. I didn't like the way that the Volvo turbo adapter and manifold all lined up so I decided to match port them. Not the best job but with the tools that I have and a half days worth of work thats how they are going to be.

Mr Stubs · Apr 18, 2009

Had the holes in the EFI plume welded shut for the propane. The rest I will just put a rubber plug on. I didnt want to mess with pulling out the steel tubes that are pressed in.

Fordzuki · Apr 18, 2009

:haha::haha: Awesome

Mr Stubs · Apr 23, 2009

I found in my file of parts a steel turbo water line. After I did a bit of little massaging I think that it will work fine.

Ty. · Apr 23, 2009

Those welds are like art work. Looks good.

Mr Stubs · Apr 26, 2009

I have had bad luck trying to find a gasket for this turbo..... so I made my own. What a time consuming PITA.

Welded in a oil return bung. I would have liked to put it up farther in the block boss but that would require a tap that I dont have (pipe thread $13 or AN -10 $50) and a bad angle for the return hose.

Oil inlet is REAL tight

Made a bracket to brace the turbo. I dont think that the stock manifold likes that much weight hanging off of it.

Mr Stubs · Apr 26, 2009

Made a slip style bracket to hold the end of the propane line by the tanks.

Tentative line routing. I still need to work on the brakes later so I am sure things will change.

Made a bracket to hold the regulator..... Not sure if I am pleased with it.

The real stupid thing is that I havent decided if I am going to keep the front clip or not. I may have spent a bunch of time on a bracket that wont be there anymore....

Mr Stubs · May 3, 2009

Picked up a few parts today and roughed in the water plumbing and the exhaust.

The parts I picked up. Wasn't able to figure out if it was NPT or BSTP so I went with brass NPT. Worse case I bugger up the fittings not the housing for the turbo.

I know that the turbo gets very hot but I was talked out of braided line due to the bend restrictions and cost. I opted to just run steel pipe out from the housing farther to help with heat displacement.

This pick shows the order of how the parts are linked together. Left side is the water inlet. Middle is water outlet. Right side is water outlet to radiator.

I didn't want to tap the radiator so I plumbed into the water line right after the thermostat. This also will help with the water convection that needs to occur to cool the turbo after the motor is shut down.

Back side of motor

Close up of the inside water outlet

I may trim the steel pipe a bit and move the hose a bit for the water inlet after the exhaust is done. I want to try to keep the line long to help with the cool water convection.

The Chevey 2 3/4 tri flange was a SOB to find as they are not made anymore. I was lucky and after two part stores and three muffler shops I finally found a shop to help me. Each one of the holes needed a bit of file work but in the end a chunk of 2 1/4 pipe was successfully flared and mated to the turbo. I now need to make a custom bend or two and ramp it up to a 2 1/2 pipe.

PUO-BANNED · May 3, 2009

nice work

Mr Stubs · May 6, 2009

Got the exhaust done.

This is how you make a 2 1/4 pipe into a 3" pipe. Flow baby flow!!!

Not much room for a 3" pipe for sure, the bell housing to frame is about 4 1/2"

I am going to run a shorty pipe without a muffler. The turbo is supposed to cancel out the exhaust pulses and making it quieter, we will see. That and the cost of exhaust pipe is $. Over 6 bucks a foot for 3"