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I am learning much from this
[font="Segoe UI", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Fira Sans", "Droid Sans", sans-serif][font="Segoe UI", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Fira Sans", "Droid Sans", sans-serif]My welds will improve, for these pipes the tack welds are done in the truck upside down.... have to hold parts, weld, not get burned, etc
Then the final welds were done on a utv tailgate and it had been a long day.....I know I can do better as I get more practice
Sorry Eddie your truck is the Guinea pig! although if these ever fall apart it will give us a good reason to have a visitÂ
I do plan to wrap the downpipes, I like to use exhaust wrap to push the heat further downstream past the transmission and passenger floorboards
Now that the downpipes are located and mostly sorted out I was able to get back to installing the trans cooler lines, torque converter cover, starter, starter wiring harness and trans wiring harness
Lower trans shield installed! Every little bit counts (sometimes I search for a while just to find the bolts!!)
trans cooler lines, cleaned inside and out, slightly bent to conform to my design
Worked out nicely! I like to use the factory metal lines as opposed to cutting them and running hoses simply because the metal lines do such a good job of dissipating heat, reduce the number of hose clamps, and they are tough
two straight pipes in place to ensure I get the downpipes positioned properly
I am building a few exhaust mounts into the system, first one will be at the trans mount similar to a stock 5.0
you can see cooler lines installed
cooler lines, starter wiring harness installed, do not forget to mount the supports! Hardcore 5.0 dudes will notice for my purpose here I haver moved the trans support bracket to the same bolt as the wiring harness support bracket
That is the underside of the pass engine mount plate
cooler lines in place!
104K starter and starter wiring cleaned and installed. All terminals cleaned and treated with anti corrosion spray
can see the lower trans shield from before is also in, over to the right is our red urethane front diff bushing
another shot of the wiring and cooler line supports, proper routing
the starter / charging harness is mounted to the front of the 5.0 here with these two brackets
transmission cooler lines are wrapped with some heat shield material when in proximity to the exhaust. Remember exhaust downpipes will be wrapped also
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2007 Sport 4door 4x4 4.0L SOHC V6 Ranger