LT install status

[Silverbullet08]

same here installing on the ground not fun even more when u almost burned down your truck lol

[Redtruck-VA]

You know there are a few basic rules in life, never tell the bride she is looking fat/old or worn out. Do not set the house/garage/truck on fire. Absolutely no shooting in the house (no matter what). And a note to my wife this includes both porches and the heater. No rebuilding any transmissions/engines or rearends in the spare bedroom. No running any gas engines in the house, this includes electric driven vehicles over 3hp. And no BBQ'n inside closed spaces, even if it was a fresh kill and cold outside.

[Redtruck-VA]

Got the inner fender liners pulled. Easy enough to to do and gives a lot of room to work. Removed the heat shields and broke a bolt on each side. So this will probably be an indication of things to come. Sprayed the bolts with WD-40, so who knows. I am ready to do this.

[Redtruck-VA]

The shop I had lined up to use this weekend isn't available and it's too late to set up another place to do the work, so it'll be done on ramps and jack stands at the house. I'll install the headers and Y pipe without the cats and then go to my backup shop Monday to put the cats in. I hate having to redo shit, but that's the way it goes sometimes.

[Redtruck-VA]

After a little more than 6 hours by myself I can say the headers are installed. The headers being used I assumed all the bolt holes would line up, wrong the front lower hole on the passenger side would not line up and I eneded up grinding a slot and finally it bolted up. It would have been a 2 minute job with the header off but took longer installed. I only have the headers on and the rest looks like it'll be a easy job. I am now thinking of mocking up the cats and the rest of the piping and carry it to the shop and then finish it at the house. Anyway great fun..

[ORT]

That one bolt hole on these headers doesn't seem to line up for some of us and lines up nice for others. I ran into the same problem you did and just slotted the flange. That was a few years ago and never had a leak there.

[txbass06]

Sucks about the install and alignment issue, but I'd be willing to bet it's all worth it. How about a vid with open headers lol

[Redtruck-VA]

I'll get some pictures up later. Today I'll put the inner fenders back in and do the mock-up for the cats. I don't have a camera to take vids, unless my Blackberry does and I don't know about it. The wiring on the drivers side under the truck near the collector has a lot of wires and tubing I am going to have to insulate.

Edit: Checked the previous work and tightened the header bolts, wraped the starter motor with some thermo shield, moved the wires under the truck as high as I could, bundled the mess together and cut up the OEM heat shields from the manifolds and wraped the bundle with the shields. holding them in place with some stainless steel ties and a couple of pieces of wire. Mocked the exhaust pipes together trimming here and pulling there to get everything lined up. Made a neat slip coupler to connect to the muffler. If I had a 02 bung installed I could have put it togather. Now for the problem, The OEM cats will fit bet just barely and they will be laying on the cross member. i don't know how Ryan got his in there but I'm going with something different, for now it'll be running without cats. All is good..

Edit: Found these on Summit, They are only 4" in diameter. What do you all think?

http://www.summitracing.com/parts/MPE-54959/

[Redtruck-VA]

I'm bumping to show my updates...

[txbass06]

Once I get around to going my exhaust, I was planning on running those exact cats. I'm just not sure how I'd do it since my stock cat is a dual in/single out...


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