Recent content by TAZZJR

Thats awesome. I've told the wife for years now I need to buy one of those. Every time she asks what I would yous it for my answer gets shorter and less coherent.

Contractors didn't finish working on the house in time. I wont make it this year. ☹

I'll be there unless something happens before then. Im planning on doing a drive this weekend to do some final checks and square away all of the junk I have around the truck.

Head gasket and pistons were the only thing I saw that was bad in the entire rebuild. I believe the rhythmic noise was the gasket blowing by between the heads. I did alot of troubleshooting to follow the noise to find it between the heads. I have a video somewhere that I shoved a paper towl...

Without getting into things that are not truck related that delayed me, I was finally able to finish the rebuild. I rebuilt the heads a while back, replaced the pistons and barrings, added spin on oil filters, and added a thermocoupler to the exhaust manifold. The final issue that has held me...

I think this is before attaching them to the crankshaft. I dont think you can mic the bearings when they are on the crankshaft. Here is page I was following for installation.

Ok I have replaced my pistons. The TM I read said 100 foot pounds of torque for the connecting rod bolts. When I took them off it sure seemed to take alot more than 100 foot pounds of torque to take them off. Is 100 foot pounds correct?

If you can find a wooden handle broom at a dollar store. Cut the head off and its pretty good tool for pushing the pistons out from the bottom. Be aware that if you are not square on smooth surfaces or if you catch on of the bottom lips of the piston, the end of the broom can split and fall on...

My mistake I ment to say that the pistons have cracks not the heads.

I'll be dropping the pan soon and checking the rod bearings.

Not to discredit you I just want to read to insure I know what I'm looking at and for. Where in the tm is this mentioned?

Update. I cleaned the heads and had them resurfaced. I went to put them back on noticed all of my heads have small surface cracks around the cut out sections. I have bagged the heads and brought them In the house. I also sprayed wd40 in t shirts and stuffed the cylinders, and bagged the...

Thank you. This answers alot of questions I had and will save alot of headaches

What tools did you have to use to pull and replace the sleeves? Were you able to do this in frame?

Here is the worst offender out of the six.