Cac replacement

[Waterloo]

Yep, just brace the hood. I took the grill out to make access easier. Watch the hood hinge, it is a scissor set up, at least on mine...

At my old house I had the perfect height garbage can to brace the hood, my new house, the cans are a bit shorter, I assumed wrong on the shorter can and punctured the tranny cooler with that scissor hinge end.

Watch the CAC top brace/plate, I believe there were some studs in mine, they snapped right off. I wound up going to the dealer to purchase that top plate as the old one was no longer usable. I do not own a welder. Cost, $100

When assembling the framework around the new CAC, use anti-seize on all of the bolts and studs. And make sure you are on level ground, if you are not that frame work will twist and you may have a hell of a time getting it back together.

All in all, it was an easy job. I did have to grab my neighbor to set the new unit in place. I removed the old unit by myself, and there is a core charge on the CAC, so take it with you when you go to the dealership for the new one, save yourself a trip and the deposit, I think it was around $400.

Get the International part number for the hood shock, FleetPride sells them and can cross reference, I think I paid around $80 for mine around two years ago from these guys, https://www.truckspring.com