I ended up with 2 DGEVs because of my "learning curve" of all things Weber-one is on the truck and the other is the one pictured on my work bench. I use it for spare parts and learning the DGEV. Right now I am going through the learning curve on how to tune it for my truck. One thing I did learn is you can change the idle jets (primary and secondary) easy as pie- but that does mean the carb is "tuned" for your application. The 2.6 is a "big four" and I'm sure that comes into play in the tuning. I am also running a 'test pipe' in place of the cat. Other than that the setup is 100% stock. Eventually I will look into getting a header- either a Doug Thorley if I can find one or one of the custom made ones by some users here. Not there yet though.Anywho....
Photo #7-this is a photo of the template I made of cardboard to transfer to the sheet steel. It measures 2" across the top, 5" across the bottom, and 8" down the sides. Use these measurements and you won't have to crawl under there and use a tape measure.Slightly bigger is OK- but no more than 1/16 of an inch or 1/8 MAX. I had mine cut at a local steel fabrication supplier. It was not a retail store- they just do custom steel fabrication. I ask the guy how much do I owe you? and he sez just donate to our coffee fund...(there were only 2 guys up front and in the office) so I shot him 10.00 bucks. I am going to have them cut out a plate to cover the "hole in the head". Not my head...the head in the truck- (removal of the mechanical will yield a hole).
As an avid coffee drinker, I'll just shoot them boys some more coffee money.
I bought a new insulator and gaskets for a mechanical pump for that purpose. The template is 'parked' next to the box the Carter P4070 came in.
Photo #8- The easiest and neatest way to wire the pump is to get a 10 amp 'Add-A-Circuit' from a national auto parts store chain. [I]Use the fuse slot for the horn because it is 'switched'. At first I used the slot for the dome light because it was the one of only two 10 amp fuses on the truck- howeva...it is un-switched which means if the door was left ajar by accident the pump would be running. USE THE HORN SLOT. The guy at Carter told me those pumps don't have a big draw- around 6 amps IIRC. An 'Add-A-Circuit' just splits the circuit in two.
Photo #9- This illustrates where the power wire runs through the firewall. I have 2 wires running through the firewall in that area because one is for the power amp for my stereo. No measurements needed- just S.W.A.G it using the photo as a reference.
P.S. How do I edit my own posts??? I want to edit some grammar, punctuation, and spelling errors in the first text post. You can tell I'm quite anal.![]()
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