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Totally agree here. Diesel engines by their very nature need high pressure on the sealing rings to keep operating properly. Just running down to the grocery store doesn't cut it. You need a load and the engine needs to be at the proper RPM for that load for extended periods of time. Does...

Those are OEM "Blind Hole Drive Screw Rivets". The engine block, transmission housing, and differentials will all have them holding the data plates. Also you will find them on intake manifolds holding the oil splash guards on and you will find them all over the place if you look ! When it comes...

Looking real good !

Those are some nice looking tires !

I've been playing with it. I guess it will take awhile to become proficient enough at it to make my diagram. Is there a way to download the program ? Or do you have to buy it to do that ?

I like your plan on using Rotella T products. As far as "cleaning" out the transmission goes, does it need it ? Is there lots of sludge up there ? If so then use the ATF idea of "Scrounger" . As far as cleaning out the engine goes "do not" use diesel fuel !!! You can cause some serious damage...

Normally you would use a hammer to seat the ring, but since you went to all that trouble to paint them all nice and pretty maybe a little prying might be in order. As far as seating the bead and ring goes, as long as the ring is down and tight in the groove it will not matter if you air it up to...

Great job Aaron !!! You might be getting older, but the kids are too and are now able to help I see !

I'd go with Chris's (gimpyrobb) offer of a good take-off one. The cost to rebuild the compressor would be three times the amount of money to just buy a good used one. The last time I rebuilt a compressor I had to go with over-size pistons and rings. I don't even know if there available for our...

Well if all you paid was scrap price then your lucky you got anything at all. Think of it as a positive. You have the basic truck, now you can make it work the way you want. If you had a running engine and transmission (even if running poorly) then you would have been tied to that. Now you can...

Thank you very much. :beer:

No takers on redoing my electrical diagrams ? To bad. I was hoping someone with good drawing skills would undertake it and make it all nice and pretty and more importantly readable ! I've always admired the skill of a good "draftsman" . It takes a good eye and hand to take something illegible...

I wonder if the transfer-case was in low gear at the time ? That much damage would mean that transmission was spinning pretty fast. The rear oil pump provides plenty of oil at low speeds. That is how you can actually push start an engine with a Hydra-Matic behind it. The average Hydra-Matic can...

No. The deuce is over 400 ft Ibs. Most trucks that use the standard 3/4" stud with 1-1/2" nut are torqued to 500 ft Ibs. Now about lug nut removal, I agree that the military lug-nut tool is great in removing them. Of course since I'm getting up there in years I prefer using my 1" impact tool...

If you have that much debris in the oil then you had a catastrophic failure. What where you doing to the truck when this happened ?

The reduction housing only fits the Hydra-Matic transmission. It shares to many components to function alone. Already thought about it. Now the idea of a "brownie" box is intriguing. I thought a good TH400 coupled to a two or even a three speed brownie box would work. The TH400 can easily be...

That would be a sweet project wouldn't it ! Of course then you would need the DOT to license it, which they might not do.

What two transmissions were you thinking about ? Now if your talking about the Hydra-Matic they did "double" them on some 5 ton trucks. I have the factory repair manual for it. One sits normally and the other mounts underneath that one but totally upside down. There is a gear case connecting the...

That is what this shop does. In fact the front of the shop is a store for 'O'- rings of all sizes and materials. The back half is where the machine shop is. It's all one store though.