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Old 01-22-2007, 09:38 PM
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Call me next time you are down I wanna go for a ride.
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Call me next time you are down I wanna go for a ride.
Sweet sounds good. I think I'm probably gonna ditch the idea of the t56 though and just go with a built 4l65e.
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Well **** I might as well be!! You learn a few things after watching somebody take apart your engine 3 times. Yea, I am glad too. I have it running great now thanks to Rhino79. The only problem is that I'm gonna need a new tranny soon. I haven't even let it shift at the 6400 shift point yet. It pulls so hard up high that I end up pussing out and letting off the gas at around 5500 in fear that my transmission will blow.

I don't even want to think about what it's gonna be like in your truck Cody once you get everything put it. You gotta give me a ride sometime when it's done.
Thanks man, Glad I could help you out a little!
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WEll the bolt isnt anythign special is it? I can get one..but is it anything super special an specific? of jsut the size and thats it...???

Also...I ahve flex-a-lite duals...with the trucks...do we have to remove the rad and efans to do the swap??? or can you muster it in without removing the rad?????
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You need to read the link to ls1howto, it will answer your questions
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WEll the bolt isnt anythign special is it? I can get one..but is it anything super special an specific? of jsut the size and thats it...???

Also...I ahve flex-a-lite duals...with the trucks...do we have to remove the rad and efans to do the swap??? or can you muster it in without removing the rad?????
Well as far as the bolt goes, you cant just get it at Home Depot, but you can get it at a bolt store or somethign that specializes with bolts. Yes you need it though, unless you want to spend time heating the **** out of your pulley and then banging on it for a while until it goes on. Just spend the extra money and don't cheap out. That's what I did and my cam swap took 5-6 days and like 40 hours of work
Yes you will need to take out your radiator and fans. I think you can probably get away with it but I wouldn't chance it. It's not a big deal taking all that stuff out. The radiator is simple as hell and depending on how your fans are mounted those are easy to take out too.
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you know i am a bit confused about the longer crank bolt....i just went and order a OEM bolt from the stealership....works fine.
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when i did my cam swap, i got the cam swap gasket kit from sdpc2000. it came with a new bolt so i used it along with some red locktite.
now i have an asp u/d pulley to install so i went ahead, spent a little more extra and bought an ARP balancer bolt. they are around $25 but now that's one less headach about replacing the torque to yield ones.
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Alright, just didnt know if it was a specialty bolt...so jsut get a longer one to pull the pulley on, and then take it out and put my stock one back on right??

So far my lsit is
longer crank bolt
Water pump gasket
Timing cover gasket
Front Seal
5/16 dowel
LSx valve spring tool
Compression fitting
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how long did it take everyone else to do theres????

40 hours is kidna ridiculous....Plus I have a Class A Tech comming to help me...


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