04' Colorado LS1 swap (Amy's Truck)

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Some more pics of the fittings, and the hose. We had a string of bad luck with the 90 degree RUSSELL fittings, we bought 2 from Summit Racing and both of them leaked like crazy. I called them and told them what happened, and they said we must have gotten defective fittings so they sent us another one no charge and so far so good. I also had to buy a flaring tool to flare the lower rack and pinion lines, so that I could use the tube nuts and sleeves.

I also bought an adjustable fan controller for the transmission cooler, It's adjustable from 160-240. I have it mounted under the truck right now, I have to figure something out to put it in. $29.95 and I also wired it into a relay and fuse combination, It uses a probe inserted through the fins of the radiator to pick up the temperature.

We are still working on the transmission, no gears right now going to spend all day tomorrow going through the valve body. Until then...........

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Been a long time since I posted, but here's what happened with the transmission.
Condition: no gears
1. Checked line pressure, and had plenty of fluid spitting out of the transmission lines.
2. Went over wiring 10 or 12 times, went to chevy dealer 2 times to verify differences in the two valve bodies.
3. Unplugged all electrical plugs to transmission as instructed, still had no gears.
4. Finally broke down and decided to do a manual valve body swap.
5. We took it back out of the truck, and sent it out to the transmission shop again, thank god we didn't do the valve body swap because the problem was internal.
6. We had the right torque converter, but the wrong input shaft and front pump!!!
7. Dropped another $250 in the transmission, and we were good to go!!

4 hours of hard labor tonight and we got it back in, and we started it up and it went in forward and reverse!!

But as in normal fashion and luck, we sprung 2 huge leaks!!! First one was oil coming out of the oil cooler block off plate, we retorqued it and had no problems, the other one is a major disaster. The main seal out of the rack and pinion blew out 3 quarts of fluid in 5 seconds, so by chance I found a complete rebuild kit for it for $50.00 from rockauto, it will be here tomorrow as I'm having it overnighted fed ex.

Until the next update!!

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Got the front end back on, and repainted the bullbar, bowtie, battery box, fuse box cover.

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Pics of the power steering setup, finally got the lines to where they don't leak.
Pics of upper radiator hose, which is out of a sunfire/cavalier 2.2 liter engine.
Finished cosmetic pic, I think It looks really nice.

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More pics, still working on it.

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We got the power steering lines fixed, to where they don't leak any more. So we started the truck and after about 5 seconds of running, and huge waterfall was coming out from under the truck. The rack and pinion blew the main seal where the shaft goes into, the only thing we could figure happened is air got into it. We bought a rebuild kit from Rockauto for $40.00, had all new clips and seals and o-rings. Well one thing lead to another, and we messed up 3 of the teflon o-rings trying to get them onto the shaft.

Finally got tired of messing with it, and went to the Chevy dealer, which believe it or not had the lowest price on the rack and pinion $349.00 BRAND NEW not rebuilt.

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Here's pics of the glorious rebuild kit, the shaft with the 4 o-rings we messed up. In the one pic you can see a meta shard that actually broke the seal, and I threw a pic of my newly painted bowtie and V-8 emblem. Until next time!!

[bangbangskeetskeet]

You do realize that the little v8 thing you used was mainly used by ford right?

[pl4yboy]

You do realize that the little v8 thing you used was mainly used by ford right?

Long hair don't care.

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In the newer fords or older ones?? I am thinking your talking about 30's style model A's, but no I did not know that. I actually got the idea from the v8 colorados, they come from the factory with the exact same v8 badges, but the factory puts them on the front fenders. I just figured I would try something different, I did originally buy 2 to make a clone of the factory v8 but then soon changed my mind.