IDIoit
MachinistFabricator
Maybe thats common core engineering...
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Noob question #2643
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crash-harris
Breaker! Breaker!
At least twice while working at Kenworth I had engineers (obviously out of place on the line) asking me what the best way to go about making some sort of addition or modification to the normal connections or routings. Might be because I was about the only one willing to talk to them about making our jobs more difficult and creating more problem pinch/rub areas on major air hoses 
icanfixall
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What???? So I added a few more words... Cry me a river... build a bridge and get over it....Nuff said on that hex...
For those that have never ventured into this are way back behind the intake air horn. the intake valley drain pan has a "special nut".. This nut is the hold down fastener and it works as the drain. To simplify install and removal the engineers designed a square drive hole in it. That is where the 3/8 drive extension fits for simple removal or install. If the unknowing eyes were to see this for the first time you may think why is this hole going into my cam lifter valley and eventually into my oil pan.. But as I posted. This is a channel designed into the block casting allowing any fluids to only flow out and down over the starter.. That right there is another engineering bad or worst idea ever.
Turbo drain back is an important thing not to monkey with too much. Trying an AN fitting or something like that, you could end up with a small diameter hole that may not drain fast enough. Remember, even though the supply line is small, that oil is under pressure. The drain must have zero pressure, and a high speed exit to keep oil from pooling in the turbo cartridge.
I need to look at the Banks drain. It works for Heath. Should work for me. I was planning on a -10 or -12 line. I'll compare line sizes and so forth. Hell I may just go find a grommet and use it and be done with it.
riotwarrior
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Gary...What???? So I added a few more words... Cry me a river... build a bridge and get over it....Nuff said on that hex...
For those that have never ventured into this are way back behind the intake air horn. the intake valley drain pan has a "special nut".. This nut is the hold down fastener and it works as the drain. To simplify install and removal the engineers designed a square drive hole in it. That is where the 3/8 drive extension fits for simple removal or install. If the unknowing eyes were to see this for the first time you may think why is this hole going into my cam lifter valley and eventually into my oil pan.. But as I posted. This is a channel designed into the block casting allowing any fluids to only flow out and down over the starter.. That right there is another engineering bad or worst idea ever.
Is not the valley drain back there a SPECIAL HOLLOW BOLT? Bolts are male thread and nuts are female thread last observation I made.....
Just sayin
icanfixall
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Al... Here is the Ford part number and what Ford calls this "thing" we are having fun with...
E3TZ-9A450-A Plug.
I know this for sure.. Loose this and you will have a hell of a time replacing it. Any machinist of modest talent could make one on a lathe easily if they had one to copy. Hard part will be broaching the square in it but even that could be pieces of metal welded so you had a 3/8 square. then machine the rest.
E3TZ-9A450-A Plug.
I know this for sure.. Loose this and you will have a hell of a time replacing it. Any machinist of modest talent could make one on a lathe easily if they had one to copy. Hard part will be broaching the square in it but even that could be pieces of metal welded so you had a 3/8 square. then machine the rest.
riotwarrior
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Thanks Gary...ya I have a few here floating about...maybe I should take a few images for posterity of where it is how it flows etc.... much easier to show in a pic than describe in words ....the plug and its ports that is.
Simple nuff when engine on a stand
