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I ordered the fuel pressure gauge and a needle valve. I'll use the 1/8" npt port on the solenoid. This way if I decide to up pressure I can do so safely. Im using pfte -4an line. Should have more photos soon.

I'm nominating my 1986 m925a1 cargo truck.

Put plugs in the intake where the original sensors went and used red rtv. Primed and used a self-etching primer. Followed up with using a high temp flat black paint. I also bought a pressure gauge to monitor fuel pressure with a needle valve. In case I decided to increase the fuel down...

Decided to go in a different direction. Decided that I want to run an intercooler. I was given the crossover pipe and aftercooler. I didnt want to buy a new core for the aftercooler. I Was concerned if I have a failure down the road, the coolant could dump into the engine causing a failure...

My 2 year old nephew came down to do a gift exchange and he wanted to take the "big truck" out. High of 10 degrees. Boost weather. Truck did great. At 2000rpms I saw 11 to 12lbs of boost. No issues.

If your heater has a small leak, You will want to get a new core sooner than later, when it decides to fail you'll have a nice clean up to take care of. Nice Truck!

Got the last set of armor lights installed and wired up. Bottom set comes on a switch. The top ones come on with the high beams. With just the fogs I have 8000+lumens, not including high beams or ditch lights. Each fog is an aircraft landing bulb. Not too shabby. I used lamin-x yellow tint...

Thanks US6x4! The truck identifies as a lowrider so maybe it will be accepted in the community. Haha.

Finished wrapping the intake cross over tube with the gold wrap. I also got the ditch lights mounted. Will angle them after getting the truck outside to see where the lights are best utilized. Got the tint for the other armor lights. Will mount and wire up tomorrow.

After some consideration I decided to change up the ditch lights. The bulbs are great but not being able to aim the lights is not helping with ditch lights. I thought there would be more residual light shining down on the ground but turns out there's not as much as I hoped for. I've decided to...

First test drive! Long time coming. Couldn't wait to get it out and see what Brutus can do. Took it nice and easy for a few miles to see how it all worked. So far I'm super impressed. I did notice a small power gain. I didnt do the injectors yet but there is a tiny bit of gain. It's...

I decided to remove the ether water sensor on the water manifold to try and burp more air out of the system. I got a ton of air out. Since I disconnected the ether, I decided to remove it entirely and put a 3/8" npt pipe plug in. Was able to add some coolant directly into the water manifold...

Got the truck fired up and started trying to burp the air out of it. Used the petcock on the heater core for some of it. Didn't realize how much air this thing traps. Here's a video of some baby revs of the engine up to 1500 or 1700rpms. Nothing crazy but I wanted to hear her whistle.

I got the water pump in. The video shows the eccentric design in case someone here wants to see what it looks like and how you use the design to tension the belts. https://youtube.com/shorts/cxkg6GYTe6M?si=YLya27HNKeqwIeAT Put some antiseize on the lip where the copper gasket goes and on...

Got the water pump off. Not terrible. Doing the mrap radiator and a different cross over pipe gives you more room to work on stuff. Took the fan off and the bracket, etc. Not bad for first time. Got more coolant out. The water pump is definetly shot. New one should be here hopefully...

Got the wires run today for the ditch lights. Bulbs came in but the amber tint didn't. Waiting to assemble them until the tint is here otherwise I'm taking the bulbs out again. Waiting on water pump. Next is to start taking the water pump out so I can prep it for the new one. Picked up belts...

While waiting for the water pump, I decided to get the boost gauge installed. Uses the same ultra comp series as the speedometer. As gauges fail I'm switching to this series. Love the nice bright colors but it's not blinding while driving. The next few photos show the 90 degree elbow and the...

Welp. I have a minor setback. Truck was warming up to put heat in it and burp the coolant. Truck was running about 20 to 30 mins. It was dark and my girlfriend wanted me to take it out but I told her I want to wait and get the boost gauge and other stuff done before taking a first journey. I...

Got the truck fired up today! Got the aftercooler installed. Got all the plumbing done. Video link is first start up. Didn't put new injectors in yet because I wanted to drive the truck on Thanksgiving because my nephew and ran out of time today. Didnt finish boost gauge and or the catch...

Got the coolant lines all finished up connecting to resevoir. New silicone line from filter to the block needed to fit around the turbo. Got the 2-90 degree elbows off the turbo done. Needed a 5" exhaust piece 6" long. Decided to get the aftercooler installed. This has been a nightmare. The...