I agree with war wagon. I would hang around the area for a couple days and put some miles on it. Go do some sightseeing with the truck without getting to far away. Surely if something happened within a hours drive of their shop they would pick up the tow bill to their shop. So they could look at it.
With as much work as they had to do I would expect a little something to get missed like that hose clamp. But the wires, that shouldn’t have happened in my opinion.
Good luck man. Keep us posted.
Yeah I think it was just me being a little paranoid and assumptions on my part. I totally understand a few things might get missed. Although I would expect a shop that does this all the time, and has done several hundred, would have a checklist to go through and make sure all is good.
I was assuming (based on talks with Eric and the videos posted as well as other folks posting their experiences) that I could hand over the keys and come back to a perfect truck that was turn key and ready for a cross country trip. In reality, it’s a 14 year old truck with countless things to go wrong from age and Eric isn’t the only one working on it. There’s a few guys (one is pretty young) working with him. While I have no doubt about the work Eric does, I do question the work from his employees. I also have to realize that Eric’s specialty is Duramax Powertrain swaps and not a vehicle builder per say. I also feel like the job was rushed towards the end. But I’ll get it all worked out in the end.
So far....
- EDU relay wiring not complete — Fixed
- Belt squeaking from Armor all — Fixed
- Super spongy brake pedal — Better, he bled the system again and it helped. I’ll probably bleed it again after I get it back home.
- Loose hose clamp PS return line — noticed tonight that it’s still loose. I’ll take care it in the morning.
- Armor All sprayed all over the place under the hood — I hate armor all. I’ve spent close to two hours trying to wipe it down since it looked pretty bad. Like someone sprayed it on very heavy and just left it. Ehh whatever.
- Wrong fuel cap — tonight after about an hours drive, stopped for bathroom and smelled diesel. Walked around back and the whole back of the truck is coated in diesel. And dripping from under the fuel filler area. I opened the fuel door and the cap falls out. It wasn’t screwed in. I tried to but quickly realized the GAS cap was still tethered and doesn’t fit on the Diesel filler. So diesel was sloshing up and coming out the filler and spraying all over the back
. Being late at night I Jerry rigged a cap with a rubber glove and hose clamp.
- Steering feels really stiff/right — they had to remove my cognito pitman and idler support brackets and some steering stuff to drop the front diff then swap it. I have a feeling when they put it all back they over torqued something. I’ll have to pull it apart and take a look.
- Fuel gauge not quite right — I’ll need to mess with the fuel gauge parameters in EFIlive to get it to show correctly when full and when empty.
Again, I don’t want it too feel like I’m bashing Eric. I have a lot of respect for what he’s been able to do. I just wish a little more attention to detail was done. After all I did come all the way across the country to have him do the work. He did stay late tonight to work out the issues and get it so we could still head out tonight as we have plans to be in Georgia tomorrow.
In hindsight, I should have planned to spend 3-4 days getting the bugs worked out. I just wasn’t expecting that part is all. I am using this thread to document the whole thing.
On a good note, we hit the road and made it 240 miles to Georgia. Aside from the fuel cap thing, no issues.
More to come as we make it further along our trip. Thanks for hearing me out.
How exactly is this gas to diesel swap going to get through their emissions?