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well gunfreak, just for you, here is a short video of the first startup. The first thing you guys will notice is that she fired right up! What you dont see in the video is me the night before is bleeding the secondaries and cranking the engine over priming the fuel system. The leak my...

Well, this has been a long drawn out process, but as of this point, all I need to do is throw in some coolant, reinstall the tranny cover in the cab, and push that little red button and see what happens, for this step I will get the video camera out, if it fires up and runs like a champ you will...

Lately I had been spending a lot of time on the deuce and very little time on my college homework. I had to take a breather for a day or two and get all caught up. Now that I am, I got right back to work, as you can see the engine is complete, and we got her slung up on the gantry crane and...

This truck was my daily driver, even without power steering, stereo, insulation, mufflers, heater, and freeway speeds I miss driving her all over the place.

Well, I finally got around to it... I rebuilt my turbo. Following WSUCOUGARX's turbo rebuild post, I found the task really is easy as pie. I had a couple issues that I found that concerned me. One was that it was clear that water sat in the turbo for a period of time, I had to do a little extra...

As I look at the engine, then back over to the engine bay, i decided it was time to get my butt in gear and make that engine bay look presentable, so today was all about more cleaning, priming and painting. The engine bay isnt show room quality, but eons better than it was, I sprung the extra...

I had been tooling around with the idea of videoing the initial fire up and break-in, If I do, I will put it on youtube, then post it here.

Got a little more done, now that I am a full time student in college for diesel technology, I dont have nearly as much time to myself as I used to. Today I got the starter in place, finished plumbing the fuel system on the engine, got the oil filters in place with the canisters "rebuilt" dumped...

If my project gives another person an idea to try out, great! that's what this is all about. So today I got a little progress done, after lots of ill faded attempts with bearing pullers and the "grease" method I said screw it, and pulled out a dremel with a milling bit and carefully made a...

bolt too short... found a replacement that was longer than the others and the bolt hole was deep enough to accommodate the longer bolt.

Today was a bit of a rough day. I had planned on completely installing and timing the fuel system, rebuilding the turbo, and getting the clutch pilot bearing removed if I had time. I had a couple setbacks to say the least. First I had to pull the fuel pump out of the old engine and get it ready...

That was my thought, as well as I know that particular air pump works as advertised.

Since I never tore the replacement engine down past the block and heads, I cant clearly answer your questions o1951. The replacement engine was a good runner that had sat under a tarp in the Florida rainy season, so a lot of the exterior components were a little on the rough side, but the...

Now that I have gotten in the gasket set, I was able to start putting the freshly cleaned and painted parts back on the engine... starting to look good, however I had one minor issue with the gaskets... they aren't necessarily labeled as to what they are, granted pubs label them by part number...

So today wasnt really productive as far as getting the replacement engine together, however I did satisfy my curiosity of how exactly the onside of the combustion chambers look. I pulled the heads and now have a better understanding of the reasoning behind the injectors having two holes, and the...

The engine compartment will get a bit of cleaning and freshening up as well... unfortunately I dont think I can get away with that at my shop due to environmental reasons, so its wire wheels, degreaser, scotch brite, and scrapers. On the other side of things, got a few more goodies cleaned and...

as I start pulling the valve covers off of my engine I saw a nicely horrible sight, walked over next door to show my mentor and he said right off the bat, "blown head gasket" I pointed out that the oil on the dipstick showed no signs of water, he said sometimes it doesnt, but if I drop my oil...

Its a harbor freight unit... capacity is 1 ton, you have to purchase the trolley and chain hoist separately, for those I opted for 2 ton capacity, I know I am still limited to one ton on the crane, but I figured the trolley and chain with higher capacity will operate better at 50% capacity...

Today I tore into the compressor base, oil cooler, and valve train cover plate... There was a LOT of corrosion in the oil cooler, so this was a good chance to clean it all up before the pieces received a good coat of rattlecan. I had also taken my flywheel to the machine shop to get resurfaced...

mine is pre turbo... it takes about 5 minutes to get that cool, after its "warmed up" it sits at about 300-315, so I figured that waiting until I hit 325 was a good bogey... mine is always running on WMO, so that may account for the higher EGT's as well.