Bowtie Brody's Namesake 96 454

[BowtieBrody]

Alrighty everyone update time!



S10 fan on, all the dwellings line up; belt tensioner was coming apart, so that got replaced; radiator status?

******.
O'Reilly's sent a tall neck rad when I need a short neck one, and stupid me didn't catch it until I had the radiator set in the truck.
Soooo. It looks like I'll be calling the radiator shop afterall. **** me.

 

[gstubbz]

Alrighty everyone update time!



S10 fan on, all the dwellings line up; belt tensioner was coming apart, so that got replaced; radiator status?

******.
O'Reilly's sent a tall neck rad when I need a short neck one, and stupid me didn't catch it until I had the radiator set in the truck.
Soooo. It looks like I'll be calling the radiator shop afterall. **** me.

Hey it's like when O'Reilly's ****** up my clutch kit for my green truck and I had to remove the transmission a second time and get a proper throwout bearing... from NAPA

 

[Supercharged111]

Shoulda gone to Napa in the first place. O'Reilly's are a bunch of hacks and their parts suck.

Brody what does your receipt say? I'd still be shoving that radiator up somebody's ass.

 

[BowtieBrody]

Well gentlemen. It's alive.

My father called the radiator shop 3 times with no answer this morning at work, so I came in and called Napa who ordered the rad and had it in by 1 o'clock. About $100 bucks cheaper than O'Reilly's to boot!
The radiator shop called back as soon as I hung up and as soon as my dad asked if he could fix it, the rad shop guy said no and hung up.

Fought and cussed with it for a good couple hours getting everything cleaned up and tightened up; there's a few leaks I'll need to address, and a hell of a mess to clean up. So I think from now on, I'll just suck it up and pay a mechanic to do it, at least as long as I'm still living under my parent's roof.

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[Supercharged111]

Or just clean up your mess when you're done. You never outgrow cussing and spilling no matter how much you wrench. I've come damn close to not making a mess when pulling an engine but inevitably it tips a smidge on removal and there's coolant everywhere. Just the way it goes.

 

[BowtieBrody]

Or just clean up your mess when you're done. You never outgrow cussing and spilling no matter how much you wrench. I've come damn close to not making a mess when pulling an engine but inevitably it tips a smidge on removal and there's coolant everywhere. Just the way it goes.

I cleaned up as much as I could with what I had; I should've bought more than two bags of floor-dry though. So now I get to spray the garage floor down with degreaser, and scrub and spray until it's clean. I also need to clean up my truck's front end and in the engine bay.

 

[Supercharged111]

Still cheaper than paying some hack of a mechanic to break all your wire clips and charge you more to come back to fix the leak he created.

 

[Nathaniel2g]

Still cheaper than paying some hack of a mechanic to break all your wire clips and charge you more to come back to fix the leak he created.

Amen. I made the mistake of paying the shop I run to do my motor swap. Younger mechanic broke manifold bolt off in the block..- WHEN REINSTALLING. My boss reemed him out for reusing manifold bolts when I had brand new ones, but in the end I still had to pay the almost 10 hours extra labor.

 

[Biggershaft96]

Amen. I made the mistake of paying the shop I run to do my motor swap. Younger mechanic broke manifold bolt off in the block..- WHEN REINSTALLING. My boss reemed him out for reusing manifold bolts when I had brand new ones, but in the end I still had to pay the almost 10 hours extra labor.

Last time i paid a shop to work on my truck it was because i couldnt find a short in the ignition switch harness. Thats always my absolute last resort, its just sooo expensive.

 

[BowtieBrody]

Everything's back to normal, I need to swap out one of the heater hoses for 5/8 hose at some point, but everything is solid now.

I'm trying to figure out what I want to do for the exhaust; when I do the 0411 I plan on deleting Cats and EGR.
I've got headers figured out, Gibson shorties, but the Y-pipe and intermediate are holding me up, I was planning on just using the stock piping already there, but it's been hacked up and welded back into place in the past.

Will this Y-pipe work? Isn't the stock exhaust size like 2 1/2 inch?
www.jegs.com/i/JEGS-Performance-Products/555/31006/10002/-1#reviewTab
And this intermediate pipe maybe?
http://www.jegs.com/i/Dynomax/289/54020/10002/-1
I plan on using my Jones muffler and Flowmaster 2 1/2 tail pipes, anyone think I'd run into issues?