pulling the intake spider

[jesilvas]

now i don't think it's TOO hard to do. but i just wanted to make sure.
how do i take it out? lol i need to clean it cause it's a mess. never have.
i know how to do the intercooler tubes and intake tube. but what else should i and should i not remove?

[Southpaw]

Diconnect it at the turbo (v-band clamp) on edit:I forgot to say...do this last, and don't lose the o-ring.
Disconnect the IC tubes (blue or black boots)
Disconnect the intake boots going to the intake plenums (orange)
Remove wire from AIH
Remove AIH sensor (wire clip)
Remove MAP line
Remove wastegate line (red)

I think that's it. Thats all I can remember. It's easy, it comes out in a matter of minutes. Clean it up good, do a CCV reroute while youre in there to keep it clean and spray a little hairspray on the spider where the boots go on. It will help keep them from blowing off

[cliford]

its pretty simple and straight forward. . . just unbolt what looks like needs to be unbolted

[jesilvas]

Originally Posted by Southpaw

Diconnect it at the turbo (v-band clamp) on edit:I forgot to say...do this last, and don't lose the o-ring.
Disconnect the IC tubes (blue or black boots)
Disconnect the intake boots going to the intake plenums (orange)
Remove wire from AIH
Remove AIH sensor (wire clip)
Remove MAP line
Remove wastegate line (red)

I think that's it. Thats all I can remember. It's easy, it comes out in a matter of minutes. Clean it up good, do a CCV reroute while youre in there to keep it clean and spray a little hairspray on the spider where the boots go on. It will help keep them from blowing off

ok figured that was mostly it. i didn't wanna do much more lol

yea i already did the ccv mod and cleaned the other IC boots AND the intercooler itself. inside and out. just didn't get to this part
now i didn't put anything on the boots when i put em back on last time. and we pulled a travel trailer for 4k miles and i'm pretty sure i was hittin boost i never hit before and they stayed on fine

[jesilvas]

and what should i plug the intakes with? i would think some shop rags would be ok but i dont' know. don't wanna get somethin bad in there from something so simple

[Southpaw]

Yeah you don't need to do the hairspray thing, just kind of one of those preventative maintenance things. You prolly won't push enough air with the stock turbo for it to be a problem.

A clean rag will be fine for protection if it makes you feel better.

[WHT00EX]

Originally Posted by Southpaw

Yeah you don't need to do the hairspray thing, just kind of one of those preventative maintenance things. You prolly won't push enough air with the stock turbo for it to be a problem.

A clean rag will be fine for protection if it makes you feel better.

I've blown my boots off with the stock turbo. Do the hairspray. There is no reason not to. It will take you 2 seconds and will save you a headache down the road.

[jesilvas]

Originally Posted by WHT00EX

I've blown my boots off with the stock turbo. Do the hairspray. There is no reason not to. It will take you 2 seconds and will save you a headache down the road.

yea i mean i guess it wouldn't hurt.
but you've got bigger injectors don't you?
i've got all stock. just the DIY intake and the Walker BTM

[WHT00EX]

I blew them off a long time before I put the injectors in. It happened after I did the foil delete mod. I pulled off both intercooler tubes to clean them.

[jesilvas]

dang. wonder why i haven't blown one off. i pulled both tubes, the IC, and all the boots off completely except for the ones on the heads