HUGE thanks to JoshH :thumb::thumb: This never would have been possible without his help. He is probably still cursing my name as I right this lol
So basically, I left Houston on Sunday night and drove to Ft Worth TX to pick up the reg cab LMM project. From there I made it to Josh's shop round 10pm. That's where the fun stopped...
The swap
We worked the next 3 days from 7am to 9pm taking the reg cab apart, tearing down my silver truck and then putting the silver truck back 100% stock down the the EGR and DPF. We left he built trans, short on time.
This was brutal!!!! If I get that deep in mods on another daily driver, I will just sell out right and take a loss. Way more trouble than it was worth. We are both worn out from crawling over the engine bay and under the frame sweating our balls off!
Not too many issues, but just a lot of stupid little bolts and brackets to put back on my truck. 1 up pipe bolt was stuck like chuck and cracked a 12pt socket!! luckily it was at the manifold, so josh welded a nut over it and impacted it off.
The drive
I left wednesday night about 10:30pm and started the 10hr drive to Collinsville, IL. About 1.5hrs in, I had reduced power and a code for the throttle blade in the intake and the DPF was full because it wouldn't regen with that throttle blade not working. Apparently my connector wasn't working correctly from being unplugged all this time. I cleaned it with electrical cleaner and a nylon brush, no luck. Thankfully EFILive has a DVT button to force regen, did this for 30min to get to zero soot and rolled on.
So from here on out, every 1.5-2hrs I had to pull over and sit for 30min doing a service regen. I set my timer on my phone and took a nap while this went down. made the trip a lot longer than it should have been!! oh well
Made it down to about 2.5hrs left to the destination. Found the shittiest hotel in Missouri, paid $40 to shower and take a 4hr nap. Got up and headed on in. Stopped and tried getting that valve to work, still no luck. Took in to the dealer for trade and they docked me $750. Oh well, still a win in my book!!
Picked up the new truck and left around 6:30pm and drove straight through to Josh's arriving at 4:15am Friday morning. Parked in front of his shop, turned the AC on high and covered up with a sleeping bag and a towel over my eyes. Josh had to beat on the window a while to get me awake at 8am lol Loaded up, grabbed the trailer and headed back home to Houston.
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Unbelievable week long journey!! Can't thank Josh enough, I owe him more than I can ever repay! Mad props to him for making this all happen.
Now the reg cab LMM is sitting up at his shop. The 6.5' bed and replacement door are there ready to go on. Should be a cool build when he's done!! I'm super excited to rip on it!!
Where all the magic happens
Old betsy was looking pretty sad when I drove off. That was a hell of a truck! Never once left me on the side of the road. I had a snap ring fail in the t-case that wouldn't allow 4wd and then a cp3 failed but it still drove home with both problems. Can't complain with all the abuse it went through!!!
And the new truck
The little man was like, "you gave up all that horsepower for this??" lol
So basically, I left Houston on Sunday night and drove to Ft Worth TX to pick up the reg cab LMM project. From there I made it to Josh's shop round 10pm. That's where the fun stopped...
The swap
We worked the next 3 days from 7am to 9pm taking the reg cab apart, tearing down my silver truck and then putting the silver truck back 100% stock down the the EGR and DPF. We left he built trans, short on time.
This was brutal!!!! If I get that deep in mods on another daily driver, I will just sell out right and take a loss. Way more trouble than it was worth. We are both worn out from crawling over the engine bay and under the frame sweating our balls off!
Not too many issues, but just a lot of stupid little bolts and brackets to put back on my truck. 1 up pipe bolt was stuck like chuck and cracked a 12pt socket!! luckily it was at the manifold, so josh welded a nut over it and impacted it off.
The drive
I left wednesday night about 10:30pm and started the 10hr drive to Collinsville, IL. About 1.5hrs in, I had reduced power and a code for the throttle blade in the intake and the DPF was full because it wouldn't regen with that throttle blade not working. Apparently my connector wasn't working correctly from being unplugged all this time. I cleaned it with electrical cleaner and a nylon brush, no luck. Thankfully EFILive has a DVT button to force regen, did this for 30min to get to zero soot and rolled on.
So from here on out, every 1.5-2hrs I had to pull over and sit for 30min doing a service regen. I set my timer on my phone and took a nap while this went down. made the trip a lot longer than it should have been!! oh well
Made it down to about 2.5hrs left to the destination. Found the shittiest hotel in Missouri, paid $40 to shower and take a 4hr nap. Got up and headed on in. Stopped and tried getting that valve to work, still no luck. Took in to the dealer for trade and they docked me $750. Oh well, still a win in my book!!
Picked up the new truck and left around 6:30pm and drove straight through to Josh's arriving at 4:15am Friday morning. Parked in front of his shop, turned the AC on high and covered up with a sleeping bag and a towel over my eyes. Josh had to beat on the window a while to get me awake at 8am lol Loaded up, grabbed the trailer and headed back home to Houston.
-------
Unbelievable week long journey!! Can't thank Josh enough, I owe him more than I can ever repay! Mad props to him for making this all happen.
Now the reg cab LMM is sitting up at his shop. The 6.5' bed and replacement door are there ready to go on. Should be a cool build when he's done!! I'm super excited to rip on it!!
Where all the magic happens
Old betsy was looking pretty sad when I drove off. That was a hell of a truck! Never once left me on the side of the road. I had a snap ring fail in the t-case that wouldn't allow 4wd and then a cp3 failed but it still drove home with both problems. Can't complain with all the abuse it went through!!!
And the new truck
The little man was like, "you gave up all that horsepower for this??" lol
