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    816 Jakes and Turbo !!!!

    Cont. system really does not like me today,, it has taken multiple restarts, and 3 hrs to post up these pics/text. So, the oil line switch had to be moved, the 15/16 bulkhead fitting was easy enough to pull and move, however the copper line running from this switch to the gauge under the dash...
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    816 Jakes and Turbo !!!!

    Trying to upload the pics to Photobucket but its being a butt. 2hrs and only one pic is up,,, sizes are correct. Electronics will insult your intelligence, but nothing rubs it in like a computor. here is the beast as it sits. Truck weighing in at 36k and the dozer/trailer, putting the combo...
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    818 now with turbo and pics.

    I simply meant that by putting aturbo into the mix, then the fuel supply hitting the injectors via the injection pump would have to be altered to find the desired fuel to oxygen/boost setting for combustion to keep EGTs in check. Case in point turning up the fuel screw on a 6.2 when a turbo is...
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    818 now with turbo and pics.

    jared, THis is kind of an old ongoing thread, as for the manifold, Most of us grab a manifold off an 855 cu inch Cummins, this is the civy moniker for the 250,290,300,350,375,400,425 cummins that was run during the 60-early-mid 80s Cummins. the early ones were called small cam and the...
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    Anyone know where to get the interior Foam insulation padding for Frankencabs?

    and your working on old military trucks?????????? Good luck,,,,,,,, seriously though, you may wander through a semi local big truck wrecking yard and look at body/hood insulation. this is the only place Ive ever seen anything that really resembles the closed cell foam that I find falling...
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    WY/CO Chapter

    Doubt I could afford to drive the 816 half way across Wyo and back for a weekend,,,, would have to start on wed, and leave on sat just to make it..... at least untill the turbo is put on... 5mpg and earplugs....:-P BigBird... Im with you about living and working with and alphabet...
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    NTC 350 Turbo VT50 Rebuild kit?????

    I thought about this, but the jake switches are also 12v, thus Im going with the 12v solenoids and wiring the setup on its own 12v lead from the dedicated 12v fuse block off a single battery. side note, the intake heater plug on the military 250 is 12v as its wired directly from a single...
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    Street Legal and register 5 ton for commercial use?

    :ditto: i got my 816 wrecker from a guy in CO who titled it after he got it from DRMO in Salt lake, thus i avoided the row, sham bo, of the titleing game. WYoming is farely easy compaired to most. (does it move on its own,,,, does it have at least one brake light, headlite,,,,, Ok,, son...
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    NTC 350 Turbo VT50 Rebuild kit?????

    Ive been on hold for several weeks working on house related stuff. but I did manage to get another jake put back together the other nite only to test the solenoids for the jakes and find they arent up to par. new one from Cummins yesterday was $103. Got a rebuilt Schwitzer 4LHR turbo in the...
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    What have you done WITH your wrecker this week?

    Not everyone in jackson is a greeny, just like the home folks that i used to know in colorado who were trapped in boulder. But they lived in boulder before boulder became what it is now
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    5 ton m816 wrecker no engine RPM

    Ok, thought i was missing something with the "passenger side" thing. Yes this is how mine is set up
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    5 ton m816 wrecker no engine RPM

    HMMMMM!!!! mine doesnt have this linkage..... just the johny bar at the winch control in the bed with the throttle lever/cable.. I mean I do have the crane/winch engage/disengage levers but they are on the Driverside rear of the winch..... Im gonna have to go crawl under it again......
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    5 ton m816 wrecker no engine RPM

    :ditto: If you drain the air from your system and the engine is off, take a small set of pliers and push the piston on the Bimbi cylinder at the rear top of the injection Pump (IP), back into itself, then turn it a quarter turn. I should stay in. It may be out far enough to be caught on the...
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    What have you done WITH your wrecker this week?

    Us too... (wife and I) as the interior of the house was sheetrock from one end to the other and painted Pepto pink and turquoise green/water sprite. the attrocities continued with painting over all the tounged jointed corners of 7" pine window casings, Solid 6 panel pine doors all stained...
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    What have you done WITH your wrecker this week?

    Just being lazy unloading my trailer again....... or "lower back savy" why over excert yourself when you have a wrecker........ 6x6s for the porch railing
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    NTC 350 Turbo VT50 Rebuild kit?????

    Got one jake rebuilt !!!!! The before and after and nite and day. the dirty head in the pics is the cleanest one of the three. Rocker boxes and the other two jake heads are at the machine shop getting tanked and blasted. Cant wait to get these mounted and working. Do believe the NTC 350...
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    NTC 350 Turbo VT50 Rebuild kit?????

    Ive read the sticky on the valve adjustment but without opening up the rockers and visually looking at it all, it didnt make much sense,(im visual and hands on learner, Thus no pictures no understand) I know how the engine works, but the "I" "V" and knowing what kind of injectors I have is the...
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    What have you done WITH your wrecker this week?

    yup, my flag has 7 stars in a blue field
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    NTC 350 Turbo VT50 Rebuild kit?????

    so by bringing the rocker boxes and jakes from the 350 over to the 250 should prevent this.???? its been a few weeks since I had the valve covers off the 350, I may have to go refresh my memory as to what it looks like in there... I did not get any switches with the core engine, I have the...
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    What have you done WITH your wrecker this week?

    Im no mormon either, just a back row baptist from the hills of appalachia. I like having plenty of store on hand, as its 65 miles to the closest wal mart to the east, and 75 miles to the west (north/south,,, we just wont go there). I just find canned deer meat to taste better than the fatty...
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