Attention: TDR Forum Junkies 
Does anybody know who can make me a new intercooler (cool side) pipe if I provide the exact specs needed? Its for a 2005 GMC C8500 with a Cat C7.
The fuel system has no priming system. And filter changes and subsequent starting is absolutely impossible without prefilling the fiters... which CAT says is a No-No. Cranking and cranking fills the primary filter but doesn't put a drop in the final 2M filter on the engine. Thus starting is impossible. There is a special schrader type fitting on the filter head CAT shops hook a line to to prime. But I don't have the specialized equipment or fittings.
However I can put a CAT push pull hand primer on it. The filter head has provisions to simply install one... but GMC put the cool side intercooler pipe right up on the engine snaking around everything.
All I need is to make a new one with about a 45 degree bend, cut to the right length and a new 45 degree boot on the intake. It will miss everything, be out of the way, and allow me proper access to the filter hand pump.
I can mount the pump right now. I just cant push-pull it. I could take off the existing intercooler tube each time I change filters... but thats just more hassle over the life of the truck.
WHY WHY WHY are OEM so darned reluctant to put simple hand pumps on new diesel trucks???? I mean... we have to prime the systems somehow and they give owners absolutely no way to do this. The manual says crank until it starts. But thats rediculous. It doesn't do anything.
The fuel system has no priming system. And filter changes and subsequent starting is absolutely impossible without prefilling the fiters... which CAT says is a No-No. Cranking and cranking fills the primary filter but doesn't put a drop in the final 2M filter on the engine. Thus starting is impossible. There is a special schrader type fitting on the filter head CAT shops hook a line to to prime. But I don't have the specialized equipment or fittings.
However I can put a CAT push pull hand primer on it. The filter head has provisions to simply install one... but GMC put the cool side intercooler pipe right up on the engine snaking around everything.
All I need is to make a new one with about a 45 degree bend, cut to the right length and a new 45 degree boot on the intake. It will miss everything, be out of the way, and allow me proper access to the filter hand pump.
I can mount the pump right now. I just cant push-pull it. I could take off the existing intercooler tube each time I change filters... but thats just more hassle over the life of the truck.
WHY WHY WHY are OEM so darned reluctant to put simple hand pumps on new diesel trucks???? I mean... we have to prime the systems somehow and they give owners absolutely no way to do this. The manual says crank until it starts. But thats rediculous. It doesn't do anything.
