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The Dieselfication of Coach 1046

Author: BigRabbitMan (Show all albums) This album is dedicated to following the process of Coach #1046 being converted from a 1976 Chrysler 440-I with a 4spd Allison AT540 transmission to a 2006 GMC Duramax LBZ turbo diesel with a 6spd Allison 1000 double overdrive transmission. There is a companion discussion thread in the Mechanic's Corner section of the Forum area of this site.

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Here is the new bracket slipped onto the studs that held the original bracket along with a bolt on the left. Anothe bolt will be added at the bottom. Note that the belt tensioner and lower idler are positioned higher on this bracket. This required temporarily moving the air intake tube out of the way to be able to slip the bracket over the studs.	Now you see the vacuum pump added to the bracket. It is a used pump. It's pulley is powered by the back side of the belt as the belt comes off of the bottom of the crank pulley and heads over to the bottom of the tensioner pulley. The belt will then travel under the lower ider and then up and over the first alternator and then back down under the second idler (that is a little higher and to the right) and angle up and to the right to the AC compressor. It then goes back down under a third idler and then up and over the second alternaor and on to the power steering pump and then straight across and slightly up to the fan pulley at the middle of the engine and then back over and around and under the crank pulley. Got it!!	Here is another view. The cold air tube and air heater will be put back and it will angle down to the left over and in front of the tensioner pulley. We will need to file a small bit of bracket casting off at one point to ensure adequate clearance. At this point I left to get two new, slightly longer bolts for the lower two bolt holes.	When I returned, I found this!! This is Eric's coach #587. Now a litle snow doesn't faze 90% of you, but to us California flat landers, this is highly unusual and only happens about every ten years or so.
This is why we left the hood on the donor truck but we thought it would be rain and not snow. While I was gone, Eric quickly put the the tools and everything away.	At an elevation of about 25 feet, we retired to coffee inside the house. The interesting thing is that it only snowed on an area of about a 1 mile radius centered on Eric's house. We had our own cold, little cloud.	Well, the sun came out and the snow melted and so the work continued. Now we have the driveline and other transmission connectors removed and switched to the inside of the cab.	Here you can see that the center console has been removed along with the radio, heater controls (electronic) and the dash guage cluster.
Another view as Eric works his way into the dash. We need to retrieve the body control module for the guage cluster to work properly.	(1 Comments) Here is Eric removing and varous parts. Note the labeler on the floor next to him. Each time a connector was unplugged that we may need it was labeled so when the wiring harnesses that we need are extracted we will not loose track of what each plug is to be plugged back into.	And the needed body control module was found buried behind the guage cluster. It was placed into a sealed plastic bag and set aside.	By having the complete set of shop manuals for the donor truck, we are able to read up on how to remove the various parts without destroying them. This is being done to make as many of the parts as possible avilable for sale to recover a bit of the the cost of the donor truck. This center console has been sold to a person in LA.
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