BloomingtonMike said:
Can you list out in which order the steps are the most logical?
I know it's a long post so it's easy to miss some of the stuff that I pointed out where I had to redo some steps due to the improper order. But my biggest beefs are the following:
(1) One of the first steps of the installation is to install the adapters into the diverter valve prior to installation. My recommendation: Don't install them first. Instead, install them as needed otherwise they get in the way when you install the lines because they protrude from the valve and there is very little clearance room from line to line. In all, you will install 14 lines into that diverter block. I found that when I was done, I had to remove and reinstall most of the adapters installed earlier.
(2) Install the wiring harness ground EARLY in the installation process, maybe even first. The reason is that the manual doesn't ask you to install the harness until all the mechanical installation process is completed. By that time, the specified grounding location is completely blocked and it WILL become IMPOSSIBLE to then use that location. No way will anyone in their right mind undo 80% of the job to use that location which means you will have to modifiy the harness to utilize an alternate non-standard grounding location. While it is not a difficult job, the question is why should you have to if the sequencing was correct?
(3) You will be asked to connect and tighten 2 flexible lines (which route over the transmission) to be connected on the other end later. If you follow the instruction to the tee, then you connect additional hard lines from diverter valve to the SCV. Unfortunately, at this point, you will find that unless the stars are perfectly aligned and serious luck (the lotto kind of luck) is by your side, the fittings on the other end will not be oriented properly and it is impossible to swivel/rotate them into the proper position without loosening the fittings on the other end. Again, with the diverter-to-SCV hard lines already connected you CAN NOT simply loosen those fittings. You will first need to get the diverter-to-SCV lines out of the way and it will not be a simple as loosening them, you'll likely need to REMOVE them. That did not make me very happy. So, my recommendation is to (1) loosely install the two flexible lines onto the diverter valve, (2) route those lines over the transmission per instructions, (3) remove mid-pto diverter plugs as per instructions, (4) install adapters into the ports where plugs were removed, (5) install flexible lines onto the adapters per instructions and tighten them to specifications, (6) go back to and tighten the flexible line connections at diverter valve, then finally (7) install and tighten to specifications the 4 hard lines from diverter valve to dual SCV. This sequence will ensure that you avoid the problems that I experienced.
I believe those are the 3 steps I would definitely advise doing differently.