Got the turbodiesel on the stand today so I could get to work on the few things I want to do to it before installing it.
First pic is engine on stand. After this I got after tearing down a few things. Removing AC compressor, oil cooler lines, engine mounts, and manifolds.
Second pic is getting ready to port the intake a little bit. A couple different reliable sources told me that there are significant gains to be made by enlarging the inlet and exhaust ports to match teh size and shape of the openings in the manifold gasket. The second picture shows the pencil mark I traced 'round one of the inlet ports. The blue line points ot the pencil line that will be the limit f my porting. It was somewhat different than the witness line on the sealing face indicated by where the purple line is pointing.
Third picture is one of the siamesed intake ports showing the one on the right ported out to the gasket perimeter, and the one on the left not yet ported.
The intake is all done and ready to go off for cleaning and powder coating along with the valve cover. Tomorrow I'll work on pulling the turbo off the exhaust manifold, getting that one ported out, and looking into ceramic coating it. I'm pretty sure the oil seepage I find on the manifold side of the block is from leaky turbo seals, not head gasket seepage. Tomorrow I'll also look for a seal kit for the turbo.
-Dave G.
First pic is engine on stand. After this I got after tearing down a few things. Removing AC compressor, oil cooler lines, engine mounts, and manifolds.
Second pic is getting ready to port the intake a little bit. A couple different reliable sources told me that there are significant gains to be made by enlarging the inlet and exhaust ports to match teh size and shape of the openings in the manifold gasket. The second picture shows the pencil mark I traced 'round one of the inlet ports. The blue line points ot the pencil line that will be the limit f my porting. It was somewhat different than the witness line on the sealing face indicated by where the purple line is pointing.
Third picture is one of the siamesed intake ports showing the one on the right ported out to the gasket perimeter, and the one on the left not yet ported.
The intake is all done and ready to go off for cleaning and powder coating along with the valve cover. Tomorrow I'll work on pulling the turbo off the exhaust manifold, getting that one ported out, and looking into ceramic coating it. I'm pretty sure the oil seepage I find on the manifold side of the block is from leaky turbo seals, not head gasket seepage. Tomorrow I'll also look for a seal kit for the turbo.
-Dave G.
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