TRD/ Magnuson 4.0 Supercharger Tips, Tricks, and Mods

That is taken from the top of the SC through the loop of the intake.

Another find.... right where all these evil clamps are there is a bracket. A bracket that isn't attached to anything! Clearly this used to hold the heater hoses, but was removed to fit the SC. Anyone else have a loose bracket?

 

Pic of the bracket that isn't doing anything. I took it out. It was just in the way of me manipulating the hoses.


And then I just routed the lower hose around the actuator thingy on the back of the SC. In this pic it has the number 15414 on it. There is a nice space there that even when I move the hose to any extream the clamps dont touch anything.


I also rotated the top clamp so the tabs point away from the SC. No small feat as there is zero room to work. I managed to push/pull the hose towards the driver side and work on it there.

 

maybe ps pump whine

 

Maybe, it just sounds like an air leak or something almost. I wanna say it started doing it after I changed my o2 sensors so maybe I should make sure those are in there good. I did a visual inspection and didn’t see any residue around them.

 

I’ll have make a cross country road trip

 

i know. i look my stuff over. still manage to miss things.

 

Yeah. I’m at a loss currently trying to figure out what it is. I cleaned my air filter because it was disgusting so I am running the donaldson for a few days until it dries. I doubt that was the problem so next I will clean my unifilter for the SAIS pump. Then hopefully next weekend I can swap the ripp coil packs out. I don’t trust them to block water like the stock ones since I didn’t trim all the tips on mine (if you buy the right ones this shouldn’t be a problem for anyone who may be considering them). I noticed on the driverside rear pack the top of it looks more dirty than the rest, almost like oil somehow got on top of it. But I def want to swap those before I clean the engine bay just to be safe.

I am probably going to pull the charger off just to inspect everything and see if I can see anything hidden that could be the cause. While that’s off I guess I’ll check on the special spark plugs and see how they are holding up.

 

hows this preliminary cleaning?

 

check your intake gasket where the s/c sits. im debating changing mine.

 

Acceptable

 

I have a bottle of P21S on the way and a fresh bag of 50 microfiber cloths ready to go.

 

I changed it when I did the ripp packs, I’ll probably change it again since it’s cheap insurance if the blowers coming off.

 

mines arriving soon. ill do it. looking for the intake o-ring. wasnt in the kit. know a p/# by chance?

 

Intake o ring? You mean the one on the bottom of the super charger and the intake plenum? If so it should be this: 171760P030

 

Correct, for non-Mexico spec - 17176-0P030
http://japan-parts.eu/toyota/us/201...004_516W/tool-engine-fuel/1701_manifold#17176

 

You’ll like that stuff. It works great

 

Interesting that there is a different gasket for mexico trucks.. wtf could be the difference?? I wonder if it handles high heat better since I know they got the pusher ac fan from the factory.

 

For $15-20 someone with a micrometer and durometer should compare the two.

 

All bolted down. As low and far back as I could go haha cuz I’m huge and all. But feels awesome. Just gotta get wiring figured out now.

 

Nice. I swapped mine out to a Corbeau similar model. The point of me doing mine was to be as low as possible as well. I found a guy on here that made me a mod using a resistor to knock out the seatbelt warning.