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The radiator had a oil layer on it when I got the truck, I flushed the coolant and it has not gotten back to how it was but is kinda hard to tell whether the small amounts you see is residual or new. I might try that Marcus if I pull the cooling lines would give me a chance to pressure test that...
The transmission in my M1028 has been acting odd lately when I first got it I dropped the pan and changed the filter, fast forward 4 months and best I can tell the pump starts whining and the shifts get sloppy. After some reading I changed all the rubber vacuum lines and replaced the filter...
For what its worth my M1028 was doing exactly as you describe being just warm to the touch after a long drive and this was cured by a thermostat. If your cross over remains cold I would pull the thermostat and throw it in a pot of water and make sure its working right.
Yes read the first few pages of search results and the diesel place postings though the one you posted just now eluded me though it still didn't quite answer the question. I didn't realize that the engines were designed to have a slight vacuum in them and that was my question whether it was a...
Is there any particular reason why the hole in the intake cannot be plugged and a standard breather hose attached for the vapors? From what I've read, and please correct if wrong, is that the CDR valve prevents the intake from drawing too high a vacuum on the crankcase so following this is there...
Ok so now that my 1028 is running and moving again I plugged it in last night and this morning the block was nice and warm so the second Kats heater seems to have been a success. Also installed a set of 60G's today which seemed to make the starting much nicer.
Ok so got her put back together today and to my amazement and as testament to how simple/tough these trucks are it seems to drive quite nicely. On a darker side note the rear end being dry prompted a immediate check of all other gear fluids which were found to also be dry contrary to what the...
There are a few good threads on this just search for them, if memory serves the hardest part was cutting the hole in the floor not a bad job from what I've seen.
Ok so now if we can get a third member to install one and have some type of drivetrain failure I think we can confirm that installing a block heater is one of the worst things you can do on these trucks. Hope the transmission is just the usual vacuum suspects those are not too bad to fix.
Chaos,
Glad to hear that you got it in and that I was of some help plan on updating this once I plug it in and see whether or not my 2nd Kats works or not but currently the truck is waiting on a pinion rebuild slightly farther than the available extension cords reach.
Finally got today off and it was nice out so pulled the cover/pinion carrier and it had indeed run dry and shelled the inner pinion bearing, so the failure falls on me not the axle this time. On the plus side the more reading I've done the task of putting new bearing in doesn't seem all that bad...
Thanks for all the replies and directions for surplus axles not sure if I am just a bad searcher or what but I wasn't finding many, still haven't broken the axle open yet had to work this weekend so hopefully I can get to it tomorrow. The axle had fluid though it's age is unknown to me the new...
Ok so still haven't opened it yet but yesterday my rear axle decided to start shooting gasses out of the pinion assembly seal and clunking while on my way home, after a flat bed ride home it refused to move until I pulled the axle shafts and towed it out of the driveway. So assuming that most...
My questions about the flow of that tank heater wasn't that it would open the thermostat but that it would run into the heater core and into the radiator that way instead of into the engine block since our trucks don't have a heater valve or anything. By all means if some of yall are running it...
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