Carelessly tossing around open ports on a built motor of course
that's what I use my coarse threaded nuts for...among other things SIKDMAX LMM painfully slow Install/Build Thread
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Carelessly tossing around open ports on a built motor of course
that's what I use my coarse threaded nuts for...among other things 
I give my employees a 1 week paid vacation between Christmas and New Years in addition to 1 week paid in the summer. I will be answering email support questions and processing web orders until Jan 3 when we resume normal business activities.
Pat already called my cell and I'll meet him or someone at the shop on Monday. Hopefully, I can fix it on Monday and either send it back with that person or Fedex it back to PPE for installation on Tuesday. We obviously ship cylinder heads all the time so there is no worry about damage with the way I
package them.
Guy
I would almost bet that those nuts were used for the turbo kit, could be wrong but almost all turbo flange's use a bolt of that size and thread.
sorry to hear Matt
Here you say it starts just fine. Also they have to pull the turbo off and fix an issue. Not pointing fingers here but everyone seems quick to point them at Russ but if the truck would start when he had it with a charger or jumping it. Then you had to do the same to get it to. But now there is a nut in the intake valve? If it was there to start with this would have happen earlier in my opinion.
What would have happened earlier?
That nut has been in there every times its been run since it came back from Russ.
Sorry, but you just dont have any idea whats goin on here. This was obviously the "tick" that Dan said he heard immediately, that I posted here was thought was a cracked flexplate.
Compression was checked before any bolt was removed on the engine - Cylinder 5, the cylinder that this nut was found in, had 50 psi. You telling me that the nut holding the valve open wasnt in there until they tore it down to solve the 50 psi issue? Riiiight.
That nut has been in there every times its been run since it came back from Russ.
Sorry, but you just dont have any idea whats goin on here. This was obviously the "tick" that Dan said he heard immediately, that I posted here was thought was a cracked flexplate.
Compression was checked before any bolt was removed on the engine - Cylinder 5, the cylinder that this nut was found in, had 50 psi. You telling me that the nut holding the valve open wasnt in there until they tore it down to solve the 50 psi issue? Riiiight.
Im sorry to say, but it has been very misleading. I dont blame him for not knowing whats going on, at one point and time, the starting issue was fixed, and the turbo pipe had to be fixed and wrapped and it was going to be done. Then a few post later it had a tick, so yes, he could have easily got confused. As far as the finger pointing game, its easy to play, but it gets old. Everybody is human and makes mistakes, not one diesel shop/fabricator is perfect in this world... also everybodys opinion of complete and done the way the want it is different. We had to do a lot of work to PPEs twin turbo kit they sent me to fit my likings, how stuff fit, drive pressure maxing out a 150psi gauge, and buying a few clamps, some hoses, some wastegate piping and a wastegate to finish it up, but hey, we got it done, and it looked and ran a lot better after it was really done and then it was truly a good twin kit, I see that they have improved all of that since i have got mine by looking at Dmitris (which i would hope), thats part of the game, you live and learn. Like I said, its always easy to point fingers, that doesnt mean its the best thing to do.
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lets not make this personal its about someones problems not ours lets just keep this about the truck and the problems not us bickering back and forth and if the owner wants to state his opinion or what ever facts he has
One question. Did you find a 3/8 course threaded nut that went through your intake hanging up a valve in your engine? Obviously not.
You posted a lot of mumbo jumbo and got totaly off the track. Yes new products need to be changed and dialed in to a truck to do what you need it to do. The nut in question is not part of the equation. How do you make changes to the nut position? Move it to better place?
I did not accuse Russ of doing this only asking a question.
Trent may have hit on something about the turbo kit using that kind of nut. Who put that part together and how long was the intake exposed uncovered?
As far as not being able to crank the truck with the single battery; battery cable 101 would have given the person an answer.
But you didn't answer the question. You just wussed out with bullshit. Can't answer it can you?
I will refresh this. Did you have a nut under your valve with the PPE kit that you had to address? Simple enough? No names, no blame. Yes or no.
Yeah, I wussed out:spit: No Mike I did not have a nut under my intake valve :thumb: But the installation was done by me and others, that way no fingers are pointed.
This is just stupid I think now how many people have taken that Turbo set up apart people make mistakes ill just sit an watch for it to run :thumb:
We already know that you and the so called others know how to put them together.
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