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To remove the cold side charge pipe, you gotta first unbolt the pipe stay. There is also a small nipple with a vacuum tube that goes to a T that needs to be pulled, then you can undo the coupling from the throttle body, and then undo the elbow at the cold side of the
intercooler...
Next, I started on removing the throttle body. By this time all the coolant had drained, so I tightened the drain screw and attached the radiator fill plug so not dust or debris gets in there. Now that the coolant system is (mostly) empty, I can undo the throttle body coolant lines...
I had the rags just in case, but no coolant spilled out.
After this, the throttle body is easy to remove, just 4 10mm bolts and it's out, easy peezy...
This is how it stands right now - much more room to see the turbo....
Next up are the turbo coolant lines. It needs a large hex key to undo the bolts, but there is very little room to do so. The top coolant bolt will be easy to remove, but the lower one needs some special attention. I am planning on cutting down my hex wrench to make it into a custom low-profile wrench, then I'll be able to undo the bolts. Here is my hex driver next to it to illustrate....
That's where I finished for tonight. I got a lot of the big stuff out of the way, the next things will start to become more tricky. I worry that the wiring harness will be in the way when removing the turbo's, but the other guy from the
Stinger forum doesn't seem to have removed his harness at all, plus it seems very VERY difficult to move in that area of the engine bay. We will see.
More to come, hopefully either tomorrow or the day after.
