PPI Typhoon

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Yeah it's a pretty custom setup, and a pretty bad fab job. The oil pan didn't fit right when I bought it, had to be reworked, none of the holes lined up, the outer flange sticks out too far so I had to modify the starter to get it in there, the inner lip of the oil pan hit the pickup tube and the windage tray, and now I had to modify it further due to the pickup tube. If I didn't have so much into it so far, I would have gone a different route.

Biggest waste of money in the project was this damn oilpan setup.

I was dreading pulling the motor just because I was so close to having it started, but after my 3 year old went to bed at 9pm, I had the motor disassembled, pulled, and all fixed ready to go back in by 1am. Not too bad being super tired and by myself. I have my dad coming over today to give me a hand getting it back in. Last time I put the motor in myself and it took me forever to get it in correctly, so having help this time should prove to be beneficial.

PPI Typhoon

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Well the motor is back in and all back together. When taking off the crank pulley, I ended up breaking the pulley, so I had to order another one.

Think there is anything wrong with trying to crank over the motor without the harmonic dampener? What about idling the motor? Should I wait, or will it be ok to start it up?

Edit: Nevermind, I found one locally and picking it up tonight.

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Just in case someone comes across this in a search, I DID get oil pressure when cranking once this was fixed. I have oil feeding the turbo and circulating nicely. Amazing how a little air leak can cause such a problem. It took about 20 seconds of cranking, but it eventually started flowing.

Should hopefully have the truck started for the first time tomorrow.

budhayes3

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Cool deal man, glad that you got it taken care of