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For those who want to know, all Chevy gas engines are all internally balanced except the 400 and 454 engines. Also the newer generation 1 piece rear seal engines are also externally balanced. All the diesel engines where also externally balanced. Including the 6.2 you have here.

This is the flexplate you need. http://www.rockauto.com/en/catalog/gmc,1988,jimmy,6.2l+379cid+v8+diesel,1156508,transmission-automatic,flexplate,8608 . I told you earlier that the 6.2 diesel has an "external" balanced flexplate. You could have just used the original TH400 flexplate and elongated...

I just saw this post and now I must get on this unread young bucks behind for not reading the TM's !!! That alone makes me angry !!! ;) Oh and when I was in, I was a 150 Ibs . By the time I got out I was 170 and rock solid. Now I'm 250 and well we won't talk about it.

Your just like me ! When any shop I worked at would through stuff away I would go and scrounge through it . I would really score big at the metal fabricator shop I worked at for 8 years. The boss would get a "cleaning bug" up his butt and have the entire crew stop working and have them just...

Yes you can replace that 45 degree fitting without removing the Hydraulic Head. Or at least mine came out OK. I don't know if the "Push Locks" will fit there though. They are usually taller then standard DOT fittings.

With my luck as soon as I set them "free" I would need them ! Just like the time I took a bunch of "SM420" transmissions to the scrap yard. The next month this 4X4 magazine had an article on using the "SM420" behind some jeeps. The price for even trashed units went sky high ! I had complete...

If it's just coming out the breather then I would not worry about it. Your trip looked like a long one so the differential probably got good and hot. The oil can get like water on a trip like that and splash everywhere. That is also why I always recommend 90/140W for all differentials . The...

The fuel system would not work for 3 to 4 hours with the vent closed. You need to think about what a diesel engine needs to run and then go from there. First a diesel needs three things, 1st fuel, 2nd air, 3rd compression (heat) . So since the engine was running fine for over 3 hours we can...

I don't know if I'm ready to part with my tools just yet. After 40 years some of them are better friends then my friends !

Good video, just one word of advice. Next time don't stick the camera out the window so much. The sound of the wind passing by makes it hard to enjoy the scenery. I know I can just turn down the volume, but then I cannot enjoy the hum of the multifuel !

That is very true about the "Yanmars" . I have several and they can be pull started (with the compression released ) really easy in very cold weather. If it's extremely cold outside I will hold the compression release on and just spin the engine over several times and then try and start it and...

Nice job on that center box Toby !

Good thing I took the pictures of my Fluke meters yesterday. I needed to remove the batteries out of them so I wouldn't get corrosion in the units. Normally 9 volt batteries don't leak like regular batteries will but I have had them do it in the past. Better safe then sorry. Kind of depressing...

Free wood is always nice ! Especially in winter.

Wow ! Two lessons learned in one day ! Foot pounds versus inch pounds and watch where your moving on the deuce. Some days can be really exciting ! :wink:

Just like cars, the more crap you put on them the more cost to repair. For me simpler is better especially for emergency power. I have always loved the Kubota diesels. Great little power houses ! If I remember correctly the very first ones where German designed. My father almost bought a small...

I though it read as he was by the truck side but not inside the engine compartment. So since he posted that he visually checked them in "post 13" I think I read it right. Maybe not.

The best way to test the temperature of the oil is to use an "immersion" probe. That way your getting the actual temperature not the temperature of the housing which is acting as a heatsink.

What you guys back there don't have to deal with much is "Black Ice" . Out here it is a daily occurrence in winter. The sun comes up and thaws the ground. The rainy sleet comes down and then the sun goes down and everything freezes again until the sun comes back up and thaws it all again. You...