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Are they, all 6...??Pistons are all the same.....
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Are they, all 6...??Pistons are all the same.....
Good catch Gerhard. I didn't see that at all. Of course my eyes aren't what they used to be.Are they, all 6...??
No sir. This is a mistake and we have the correct ones. Very good catch but this was one my buddy Zach and I mounted up on my old piston. so what you see there is my old piston mounted on a connecting rod. This was changed and all of my pistons now are like the ones seen in the vise. Again, very good observation. When I was cleaning the pistons in the vise there, I did all 6 and recalled them all sitting flush to the vise.Are they, all 6...??
Remember when we installed pistons? We installed #6 working toward #1 cylinder putting in last. It was #1 cylinder that we assembled the connecting rod on and was the last one for me to change over to the new piston.*burp*. Should have taken pictures and looked at them. Ha! We missed that, focused on ring count. Yes, one piston was different when initially shipped, but they since shipped a match. The above was not observed, I believe. Long block is together, we'll see what he wants to do. Thanks for the grab.
We'll, you did better than Hot Dog here. His rebuild with new parts didn't even last a summer, until it was dropping terds out the draft tube. Maybe by his re-use of parts this time, it will go further/longer.I wish you the very best of luck!
Half the time, when I did not have enough dough, and tried to save a few bucks by re-using "used but good" parts, I wound up doing the job over again in about year or so.
.Remember when we installed pistons? We installed #6 working toward #1 cylinder putting in last. It was #1 cylinder that we assembled the connecting rod on and was the last one for me to change over to the new piston.
fifyi have seen plenty bad new parts over the years working on and testing diesel. I have had brand new cats, cummins and detroits blow up on the test stand for one reason or another. I would put a new piston kit in hole #2.
I am running the same piston kit in a lds configuration and no issues so far. I have converted my ldt. It just maybe a bad piston kit. I have read the thread. I did not see an lds conversion mentioned. I pulling more than 50 hp over if you are still ldt. Not one problem with blow by. When it's very hot i have some, but nothing abnormal. But it is was 20f when i ran it.
I do have a spare d turbo nos i would sell you for 550. I am not at home, i will not be back until april. I am in mali working in the mines.
Like 74M35A2 said, Mainly waiting on the turbo. I still have to double check things underneath to make sure they are all tight, put the transmission tunnel back on (from doing the clutch), adjust the valves, put engine oil in it, install valve covers, turbo, related plumbing, buy a heater hose (straight piece will be easy to get), fill with coolant, drain fuel system to get the 25% of WMO out of the fuel tank and fill with 100% diesel.
I hope everything turns out ok... I'm not doing this again.