SIKDMAX LMM painfully slow Install/Build Thread

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jraymer

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Rhall said:
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.
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So do you mean Matt shouldn't have brought his truck to anyone to do any work to it? He should have done all the work himself, that way he would only be able to blame himself?

Not jumping on your back, just a question. ..
 
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SIKDMAX said:
Well guys, I think I will make it within 2 years! :rofl:

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Dan, Luis and the rest of the guys at PPE are finishing the truck and getting things going. Im glad I took it down there - some problems were already identified and are being fixed! Updates shortly....

And by the way, the truck DOES start and run :cool2::cool:
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Sorry Mike, I was going to stop by when I was down but I was on a tight schedule for school finals.

Dan thinks the truck may have a cracked flexplate so it's heading to your place afterwards to drop trans, flush, c3 oiler and insPection. Also talk about the 1057 in there right now.
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Rhall said:
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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OK you need to read from page 55 forward....

On 12-11 @9:11am post #816 Matt posted he dropped off the truck at the shop. On 12-12 @ 7:30am post # 822 he posted about my comment on the ticking noise and my thoughts on it being a broken flexplate (the call was made about the tick 5-6 hours after it was dropped off). We had not even started on any Fab or repair work other that getting it started and pulled in the back shop on the lift... The miss/tick noise was there from day one of it being dropped of to us...

Please tell me what our FIRST prototype twin turbo kit has ANYTHING to do with this thread...? You knew when Tim/You bought the kit (at a VERY special price) what it came with and was supposed to do... We all knew it would need mods for your plans on your build up. That was part of the deal and special price (on the kit, not the turbo's).

Do you have a dog in this fight? Or just trying to cloud the issue???:hello:
 
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RPM Motorsports

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SIKDMAX said:
Gonna hopefully address the oil leak in the morning. Appears to be the turbo drain, not sure what that means. Wont be taking it to SEMA.
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SIKDMAX said:
Hoping its just the nuts - figured cuz its something I did lol. I did reuse the gasket though.... I beleive. Cant remember if the new kit came with them, as I was piecing some parts together. Initial look cant even see the drain nuts, anyone have any tips on best way to access it? Top or bottom, side, removal of parts, etc?
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So quick to point fingers again... Your forgetting the part where the intake bridge bolts were all finger tight, and the turbo drain had a severe leak. Remember my phone call saying that one of the nuts were not on the drain stud, and the other was not even tight, along with miss matched nuts on the BD ped.... Looks like you found your nut Matt! The only other four bolts/nuts were on the T6 flange on the big turbo, and all four were in place and tight when it left... For a nut to "Fall" into the intake, and find it's way to a runner is almost impossible at that angle, see pic. Merry X-mas 8min's left ;)
 

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Rhall

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jraymer said:
So do you mean Matt shouldn't have brought his truck to anyone to do any work to it? He should have done all the work himself, that way he would only be able to blame himself?

Not jumping on your back, just a question. ..
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Nope, i never said that, Mike asked me my situation, so i told it to him.
 
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Dan@PPE said:
OK you need to read from page 55 forward....

On 12-11 @9:11am post #816 Matt posted he dropped off the truck at the shop. On 12-12 @ 7:30am post # 822 he posted about my comment on the ticking noise and my thoughts on it being a broken flexplate (the call was made about the tick 5-6 hours after it was dropped off). We had not even started on any Fab or repair work other that getting it started and pulled in the back shop on the lift... The miss/tick noise was there from day one of it being dropped of to us...

Please tell me what our FIRST prototype twin turbo kit has ANYTHING to do with this thread...? You knew when Tim/You bought the kit (at a VERY special price) what it came with and was supposed to do... We all knew it would need mods for your plans on your build up. That was part of the deal and special price (on the kit, not the turbo's).

Do you have a dog in this fight? Or just trying to cloud the issue???:hello:
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No, i really dont have a dog in any of the fight, as of most of the people that have posted in it. Your kit has nothing to do with this thread. I just see so many people so quick to bash other peoples work and point fingers anymore.(prototype or not the kit was suppose to be complete, buying hoses and clamps isnt complete, but thats neither here nor there) Ive never bought anything, nor have i ever talked to Russ. I just know that everyone used to like him, and now everyone wants to hate him and bash his work (atleast over there on the west coast). I guess i just didnt drink the right Koolaide or jump on the bandwagon on this one.... Maybe you guys could run fingerprints on the nut, then you would have an answer!:thumb:

I also never said when the truck had a problem, i was simply pointing out where someone could be confused...
 
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SteveFord

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SIKDMAX said:
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.
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Just trying to make sense of your posts or postings in this. Some of you look into a post to far and get your panties in a bunch. All i tried to do is figure out you posts. Hell you can point the fingers at me for all I care lol!! People are human like Rob said and things can happen. For anyone to think that nut was put there on purpose i think is crazy. Cause this is what you get on these sites. Everyone gangs up like a high school click and starts pointing fingers and talking about someone. Then again I suppose everyone is perfect doing the finger pointing:rolleyes:
 
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the fact is this who cares how it got their! theirs nothing anyone can do about it now,but fix it and go on! no need in crying about it! SHIT HAPPENS! you live with it and move on! come on guys were not in high school anymore! hell i have done stupid shit like this b4 on my race gas motors. . .because of working on it way up into the night. and the more hands you have working on a truck/engine the more you dont know about it!

JUST FIX IT AND MOVE ON!

thank you im done now!
 
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Rhall said:
Nah, nothings beginning, the truck is getting fixed properly finally like it should. Im sure Matt will be happy once its on the road.
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That about sums it up. Whos nuts or who put them there or otherwise how they got there isnt going to save me the thousands of bucks this is costing to fix. All I know is I never put on or removed a turbo, since I have no idea how to do that.


Guy will have the head tomorrow, get it all cleaned up and it will get back down to PPE.

Theyll put the head back on, up pipes and manifolds, the rest of the system, check it, and Ill go down and get it.

Then I do a burnout :happy2:
 
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Guy just called - head is all cleaned up and back enroute to PPE. No issue other than replacing the intake valve and polishing out a few scratches. "Like new again, cant tell."

:happy2::happy2:

Thanks So Cal Diesel!
 
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