Karl, Your M105 left here in good shape and good hands at around 1100 our time, yours too... It is on the back of the trailer, tongue on the sloping rear deck. Should be an easy pull off of there with a loader and chain. The bed cover is stuffed about halfway into a card board box to keep the wind from catching it and sucking it out.
My old 91 Dodge has a nice set of instruments in it, Isso tach, pyro and boost gauges, they are wasted instruments in there. That 6BT never runs hot enough to warrant a gauge and the boost really does not worry me any in there either. The truck used to pull my M715 around like it was not even back there, okay, maybe you could tell on long hills and from a dead stop that it was back there. The tach is a waste. who cares? You cannot run an early stock governed 6BT hard enough rpm wise to hurt it. On that engine, if you are pulling hard down the Interstate, running 800-900 degrees, it will be back at 300 by the time you hit the bottom of an exit ramp. To shut down that turbo hot, you would about have to push the clutch in while pulling and turn the key off.
I could move the pyro over to my deuce, but then I would have the scarred dash in the Dodge. The instruments are cool to watch, but in my opinion, they are wasted on that truck.
Karl, you drove my truck and you have a nice deuce. How do they compare power wise?
I know mine has been overhauled in 1991, it is -.010 on the rods and -.020 on the mains with standard bore.
The pyro in my Dodge is really close to the turbo exhaust, not in the manifold. I always wondered if that was part of the cool exhaust reading and quick cool down on my Cummins. I remember the pyro on the old White I used to drive and in the old cabover Pete both being slow to fall once they went past 1000. I also remember that they really got hot fast on long pulling runs against the governor, if I would just back off and drop a gear, the exhaust temperatures would dive. I would ask if the multifuel is the same way, but it sounds like this crowd runs against the governor. Glen