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    Instrument cluster swap

    Like my OP. If it were plug and play, with no dealer rip off to reprogram the remotes, and if my truck's mileage, which is low @ 48K, could be set, I would like it. It also would need to have the information center, which mine does. Otherwise, I'm trying to learn to live with it. If you like...
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    Oil Cooler Swap

    The fourth or last diagram with the water to oil cooler circled in red is the one I got in my '97. Sgtowing, I would prefer to go with the factory adapter without the cooler in diagram 2 and plumb the Earl's cooler into new hoses in front by the radiator if I didn't already have the Trans Dapt...
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    Oil Cooler Swap

    Great diagrams, rburch. Thanks. Now, I need to re-think my options. From these diagrams, it looks like that water pipe to the block, while being part of either adapter, doesn't contribute much, or at all, to any water to oil intercooling. So, was there ever this type of oil cooling to the...
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    Oil Cooler Swap

    Got a Trans Dapt single oil filter remote adapter and a Saab 9000 16 row flat tube cooler to plumb in between for an air to oil setup unlike my '97s water cooled setup. Only problem now is how to hookup to cooler's 20mm x 1.5 inlet/outlet. The Trans Dapt hoses are pipe threads. Worth the...
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    A specific cold air package

    The only true cold air modification I would think of is one that had the air filter in the surround, but still used a snorkel to get the air only through the driver fender when the hood was closed to seal the surround. Then, you would still do the Gotts mod to the fender hole and snorkel. I know...
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    97 EB Exhaust Manifold Removal

    I know this is an old thread, but I had to do this to my '97, so will pass on the experience, being that eXoR never got a response. When my driver's side exhaust manifold to down pipe stud broke, further inspection showed a crack at one of the flanges and the need to replace both cast iron...
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    Oil Cooler Swap

    Thanks, Zombie. I'll probably end up with an aftermarket adapter and leave my '97 for the next guy.
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    Spare tire

    The long rod mounted under the hood for the spare tire winch is on the first generation, '97 to '02.
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    Oil Cooler Swap

    OK, let me put it a different way. When looking through the lower grill of both Expy's, the '97 and '05, I see the same thing, on the passenger's side, a seven or eight row transmission oil cooler. On the driver's side , what looks like a power steering cooler or, is that the oil cooler? My...
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    Oil Cooler Swap

    I have a new to me 2005 XLT and my old reliable '97 5.4. Before sending it out to pasture, there are some desirable parts I may want to swap. The '97 came with the remote engine oil cooler and the '05 3 valve did not. I know the 3 valve heads and a strengthened engine block are the obvious...
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    New Member from New York

    Thanks everyone. Now, back to that "Gotts Mod":favorites13:
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    Instrument cluster swap

    Hi, New guy here. Just replaced my '99 Expy with an '05. 'Like everything about it right off the bat accept for one thing. IMHO, a really ugly instrument cluster. Looking at eBay, I see that '04 clusters are widely available. Being from the same 2nd generation and having what looks like the...
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    New Member from New York

    Hello, Just registered after lurking the site while owning my first Expy. I'm glad to have found this forum in my search. I put 200K on my first Expy, a '97 that I bought in '99 with 28K on the odometer. Being a lease return vehicle, it was from the start not the most desirable type of used Expy...
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