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Message: [QUOTE="7.3obs, post: 1487945, member: 18051"] Started my build beginning of last month, motor was out of a 97 van. I started with stripping the motor down, adding head studs, beehives, valve stem seals, (full force)injectors, valve springs. Cleaned it up some. Welded cam gear,my mig needs a new tip. While I was there I replaced oil rail plugs and some other seals [ATTACH=full]173989[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]173990[/ATTACH] Valves springs aren't much fun either, had a stock one compressed and it blew out of my compressor and hit me in the gut. Things are like little bombs if you don't get the compressor on just right. Next I installed the timing cover, intake plenums, front timing cover and oil pan, found out that the gray death I had was about half a year old and took it all back apart and picked up a tube from ford. Got the turbo bolted on and the stealth twins. Added some paint, not a fan of the shade of red but owell. [ATTACH=full]173991[/ATTACH] Bolted up my bts that finally came out of storage for a little over a year! [IMG]https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20170925/56be0eef5c11d0da9baa59053f3a2c6e.jpg[/IMG] That billet wheel is pretty d@mn wicked! A friend of mine and I started to drop it in. Find out you can't put the motor in with the turbo on, not even the exhaust housing. After some time and finagling we got in it. I've pulled and put 3 motors in in my life. Never had one be this stubborn but we got it. [ATTACH=full]173992[/ATTACH] riff raff a hpop spacer is pretty nice too, the two inside bolts for the turbo are no fun at all! Had to cut a wrench to get in there. My knuckles are a little banged up. Got around to the fuel system. Fuel lab pump is pretty loud but owell, went with a 35 gallon tank along with a full force sump, wasn't too crazy about the sump design of just one bolt but it's in there now. Before I put sending unit in I'm going to reach in and put a nut on it so I don't have to worry about it loosening up on me, added some gray death on the oring too for a piece of mind. Got some more work to do with the tank, no stores had the right hardware I needed to get this thing bolted in today. Pump set up I dreamt up. Forgot to order 1/2 npt with 8an for the second filter, Those will be here this week along with the right exhaust back pressure tube. Switching to the superduty location on the front timing cover. [ATTACH=full]173993[/ATTACH] Hose is ran into 5 gallons of diesel so I could hear it run. Ran pump off a four wheeler battery I had laying around. Around 8:30 lastnight it started. Took a little bit of cranking but when I saw the oil pressure gauge jump up I knew it was golden. I was one happy camper to head it run. I'll be posting back more as I need this thing going down the road before Friday, still need to get some stuff painted, intercooler put in, wire fuel pump up, driveshafts and buttoning everything back up! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk [/QUOTE]