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    6.0 Inter-cooler install, the hard way.

    With everything all together, and fitting just barely, the only thing left to do is take it for a test drive. The lights in my bumper made the bumper about 50% harder to install, and the inter-cooler now made it another 50% harder to install. So the most frustrating part of this whole ordeal was...
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    6.0 Inter-cooler install, the hard way.

    I had to trim a bit of the plastic headlight black mount-thingy, just around where the ends of the inter-cooler is. There is tons of mounting hardware around this area, so i wasnt worried about losing strength and my lights drooping or something. It also has two weird tabs in the center, facing...
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    6.0 Inter-cooler install, the hard way.

    This is how they sit in there. I will use a bushing on the top mount (An old skateboard truck bushing thingy) so im not too worried about the body flex during off-road use to ruin my inter-cooler. The top mounts need to be fit pretty damn close to perfect, but the bottom mounts will allow some...
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    6.0 Inter-cooler install, the hard way.

    I had finally gotten around to installing my 6.0 inter-cooler, using an e99 spyder and Carson Stauffer Diesel Pipes. I had gotten the inter-cooler, spyder, and boots/clamps for $400 locally, so the extra $140 for the pipes wasn't that much more of a leap to me. I started by taking only the...

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