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Off to the machine shop

No good comes of the cheapest way out in the long term.

This gen 6 454 has a non adjustable valve train. Kind of interesting. You just torque the rocker arms down and the lifters self adjust.

Put some time into disassembly this afternoon. Found the lifter noise. The cam and lifters have been replaced at some point with aftermarket Chinese crap. Main bearings and rod bearings were doing ok.

128k which is accurate. I looked at the truck it came out of. No sludge in the top end. Im not bummed out about it because i got a decent price. I was on the fence about doing a complete rebuild even before i found the issue. This just forces me to do the rebuild. Here are a couple more pics

Junk yard reported a valve tick on my motor. Found that and a blown intake gasket. Looks like a full on overhaul now.

Got most of the new dash installed today. The old one was rough

I had to pull it off to clear the chain when i was lifting it. Its too heavy for my engine stand with the heads on. Ill have to strip it to a shortblock before i can put it on the stand.

The junk yard finally got my 454 out of the donor truck. Heres what i am starting with. I will post photos of the tear down. Going to sell the 6.2 to help offset the costs.

I am going to put 400 horsepower in front of the rear end. But it looks like it will have no issues. If it blows up I will fix it and upgrade.

The less glamorous side of things here. Pulled the diff covers,cleaned magnets and service with fresh synthetic fluids. Right rear seal was leaking. Bearings were serviceable. Replaced all seals and gaskets with new.

At least i got time to reinstall my door seals. Two feet of snow came today

Small victories today. 🙂 got a hvac control thats legible

Agreed. The gen 6 vortec had hyd roller cam and good flowing heads. To be honest i would have done a 5.7 but the 7.4 came along at a good price. I should be picking it up this week from the wrecking yard. Ill post some pics of the inspection.

Thats a good question. I haven't driven the truck since i did the cab floor. I can tell you that after i sprayed the bed liner on the bed that it quieted down the road noise a bit. I sprayed the cab floor really heavy using 3 quarts. When i get the opportunity to drive it i will report back.

My "donor" 454 🙄 cant wait to open it up.

I had to ditch the bucket seat option on my f150 seats. Decided to keep the bench. Put some shims in to get the seat up about 1"

That is a diy. Sem rock it xc. Ive used it for a couple of projects. No regrets so far

Got the bed liner sprayed in tonight.

Thats awesome. What are you going to do for exhaust? I havent picked mine up yet. Its coming out of a 2000 suburban. 123k. Ill take it apart and replace anything worn. Im going to pull the efi off and go with a aluminium 4bbl intake and rv cam