 What's happening YouTube? Thanks for tuning back into another episode with the Rust Belt mechanic. So we got big old Dirty Max back in the shop. It's time to have this thing go under the knife. We've got all kinds of really cool parts coming in for this thing. So I'm actually going to be splitting these up into a couple of really cool videos, but this one I am actually going to focus on cab removal. It's one of those things where you've heard all these technicians talking about how much extra room there is for working on these things once you get the cab off. So I have been looking around and there's no videos for taking the cabs off of these things. So I personally have not done it myself before, but you know what? We're gonna learn all the same time as we go along. Hopefully I'll be able to get you some tips and tricks on getting these cabs off and hopefully it won't take too much effort. Let's get into it. First thing we're gonna do, we got to get our emergency brake cable off because the emergency brake cable obviously goes with the cab and the back part goes with the back. So what I do is I've kind of clamped up the rear, pull the front, you can see there, and had that kind of pinched with a pair of pliers. And then all I do is take a pair of flat, flat pry bar, yeah, and then pry that apart and be able to pull your e-brake cable up. And then we can release that and then be able to pull it back up through so it'll go up with the cab. Next cable we're gonna free is gonna be our transmission shift cable. So all you're gonna do is take a little pry bar and pry that one out and then you can see the little metal clip right there. We're gonna pry that metal clip out this way, pinch the two little tangs together to get the cable out from the actual transmission. Then we're just gonna kind of see if we can see it back here. You can see where it wraps up around this area and then we're gonna get it free from our frame and it'll be able to go up with our cab. It's right there. Now we come around and we're gonna get our fender liners out because there's a whole lot we need to get to inside both sides of fender wells. We're gonna start off with the passenger side. So once we're kind of into the belly of the beast here, we've got a couple of different things that we're gonna be doing. One is gonna be taking loose the bracket that goes between the frame and the front bumper here and then we've also got our intercooler hose to get off right there. We've got our lower radiator hose that we'll need to get off right there. Then we're gonna need to eventually get up top and evacuate some of our freon out to be able to get our lines off of that one. Once you get the intercooler pipe off, there's gonna be some transcooler hoses in between in behind that portion. So we're gonna have to get the transcooler lines off of the radiator as well because those go back onto the transmission and then the radiator and stuff is gonna be going up with the body. There's the one hose right here on the bottom of the coolant reservoir. You'll want to make sure you take that off as well. We've got the top cover off, pulled the grille out because you know I'm not gonna go through every single little bit on this. If you guys haven't had those parts out before, I'm sure there's a million videos on that. Got our transcooler lines here that need to get off as well. Pull that one, pull those down through and then we'll start getting our AC lines off our compressor. One will come this way, the other one will kind of fold up into the cowl up there. Now we took the bumper off. I know it was you know kind of quick on that one. We took the brackets off like I showed you earlier and then from above there's two 15mm bolts. You take each of those out on either side and the bumper literally just slides back towards you. Make sure of course you unhook your fog light connectors as well and then over on the driver's side it looks like a big old mess but back in here we took our steering shaft off. Another thing I might have started off with the beginning is unhook your batteries, both of them, just to make sure you're not doing anything else stupid with the wiring. Make sure you unhook those and then we're all gonna like I said earlier evacuate the AC system down as well. We got our lines hooked up here to get our freon evacuated so we're gonna get that going here with the machine. While we're up here on this side we're gonna be wanting to take our intercooler piping off and you can get to the top portion right here and then we're gonna start taking off the coolant hoses from the bottle, start getting our shroud and everything off from the upper side of our fan as well and getting any of the wiring that seems to be hanging along with the body on this side also taking kind of loose. No I'm sorry we're kind of moving fast here guys I'm just trying to you know do all this work like I'm used to being paid on flat rate and trying to get it done at the same time. So we took our AC lines off from our compressor, put the bolts back in so they can stay there and now we're gonna be taking our shroud off 113, 113 and the two halves will split. There's two push pins down there and the light here and there's two push pins right there. I think also one of the other hardest things you guys are gonna find is trying to figure out what kind of aftermarket accessories you guys have hooked up because you know you Duramax guys you guys all have a bunch of stuff like for me I have amp power steps so I've got to kind of navigate and find out where the harness was ran I personally didn't put that one on so we see we got that line hanging up there and then all of that down towards the bottom is gonna stay up with the cab and then follow it on over to the controller right here so I'm just gonna have to find out an unhook where the controller and the rest of the power supply go to and unhook that one. Now up here up top we're also going to be needing to unhook our hot side pipe that one will come out there and we'll unhook it down underneath as well. We're gonna take off our upper radiator hose to go over to that part and then we're gonna be needing to finagle out a lot of our battery and accessories that's hooked up to up around here and to the PDC as well. We're gonna need to unhook our main engine harnesses one and two right there and then kind of finagling through we'll see what else we run into from there. Yeah I know it looks like a mess but we are making progress here guys promise so this was the harness that went across the whole front side of the motor. The harness went all the way across and went over to the alternator to a couple of our sensors down there and it actually wrapped up around went to the AC little ports over there and the low coolant temp or the low coolant level sensor on the bottle also. So that whole harness got brought over folded over that will stay up with the body and then there is one little cable going down that'll be a ground cable going down to the lower part of the block you're gonna have to get that one off to bring up the rest of that cable right there also took off our fuel lines right there because also one of the cables we had to take off was for our glow plug module so we got our lines taken off the fuel lines and then we've got to get them also taken loose from the brackets which is you know there and there we'll get those loose because the fuel lines go down with the rail. A hot side pipe is off so that means we took out our inner fender on this side I know you guys know how to do that one already so now we'll kind of go look down into that other side of the fender as well. There's a ground strap right behind where the bumper was at 110 millimeter bolt we'll take that one out. No it's kind of hard to follow and show because of all my extra aftermarket wiring stuff for the air dog and all but we unbolted all of the connectors from underneath there started unhooking all of the wiring so that all of the harness wiring that came across the engine and then hooked it down into the bottom of the PDC there we ended up unhooking everything we possibly could to where it would then just kind of fall down and sit down in our wheel well everything that went from it also goes to the PCM unhooking it there the wiring that we had on our TCM which was on our fan shroud we unhooked that one and then all of our other little cables and stuff that we're kind of pressed down onto the base of the PDC station so now we've got all of the wiring on this side taking care of now we're going to go and focus on getting our hydro boost stuff off we've got to take off the two bolts one nut there that holds the brake master cylinder to the hydro boost unit and one on the other side as well so then we can just pull that back and then we're going to take off our power steering lines from the hydro boost as well got the one clamp on the return and the 16 mil on the pressure side on that one there and we will get those off so then the hydro boost will kind of just hang out up here up top and then the brake master cylinder will go down with the vehicle with the rest of the lines so you don't break your brake lines loose then you can see from in the fender liner here right there there's a 13 millimeter bolt cone from the front back it's holding the fan shroud on there's going to be one in the driver's fender well and then there's going to be one in the passenger side fender well as well and then there's going to be a couple more on top before we can actually get that fan and inner shroud out here up top there was the last 13 millimeter bolt holding this fan shroud on so now we've got access to the fan clutch hub and we're going to use our clutch hub remover tool spin that off should be just standard left or lefty-loosey righty tie standard by hand threads now we are ready to take out our cab bolts so we've got one we're on the lift here and then a smaller 18 millimeter one with a bolt and a nut in the front that is on each side you're going to go ahead and pull those me I have a lift pump that I have also on the vehicle so I had to pull the wire down for that one I need to pull that one up through the top so I'll get that one all done and handled and then get these bolts out and then we'll be lifting the cab up off this guys moment of truth we reset the feet now we're going to see if she lifts got some cables for my back see if we get enough slack out of that just look at that gorgeous kind of getting old but this is a lot fun this has been a an eye-opening experience and I think that we did a pretty good job we only had one casualty if anybody picked it out in the video what I forgot to say to take off I said it to myself at one point but the coolant lines that go to the heater core have little plastic fittings yep snapped so I guess one casualty can't ruin the entire project but we've got so much more getting ready to happen with this thing guys we've got turbo big boy turbo 68 millimeter 68 73 I believe it's gonna be from Ryan's diesel performance service up in Wisconsin who is also putting on a bad ass truck meet here on June 22nd get the details on that one from truck masters channel I can put some links down in the description of that one or their Facebook page as well we've got some other big things coming on I'm gonna be doing individual videos for a couple of these things we're gonna be taking the injectors out shipping those off company by the name of bitterroot diesel is gonna be hooking us up on those doing some 60 overs on the rebuild and we've got some really cool intake piping be able to see all of that you guys are just gonna have to wait and find out what we get for it appreciate you guys stopping in if you guys liked it make sure you hit a thumbs up button if you have not already make sure you subscribe as well turn on that bell notification so you get notified when I come out with cool awesome videos like this one appreciate it as always guys you stay awesome