Update after 3/17/07 work-session: It was a heckofa day. My brother came up from NC to help me out again. He had stopped by John Winslow's for me and picked up some parts that came from another fella in NC. He brought the lower rad mount, a cherry fan shroud (rare) and a power steering cooler. There were supposed to be 2 spindle nuts and a lock-washer in the deilivery, but the got left out when the guy gave the stuff to Winslow. He'll be mailing them to me this week so I can finally get the dang wheel mounted.
Me and my brother, Chad, took the radiator to my office and flushed a bunch of rust and scale out of it for about 30 minutes. Then, we made about 4 different stops to get all of the nuts and bolts, 10 gallons of gear oil, 6 gallons of anit-freeze, 6 gallons of distilled h2o, a ball-valve for the front glad-hand and other bits. Then we got to work installing the radiator it took about 3 or 4 hours to get the whole thing installed with Chad having to make 2 more parts runs during the ordeal. The radiator was all the way in, but the lower mount wasn't lining up so it had to come out so we could reverse the mounting plate bolted to the radiator. It came with the plate bolted to it, but maybe it came out of a NHC-250 truck and they use the plate flipped. I dunno, but it was a pain to get everything lined up and hoses connected without busting that precious fan-shroud. Finally it was in!
We opened up all of the pet-cocks on the engine and the plug on the rad top to let the air out and statrted pouring the 50/50 in. Chad stood on the truck dumping in in the tank while I threw him more jugs. Once in quit taking fluid, we fired it up and let it warm up. It took about 20 minutes at 1800 rpm to get the thermostat the open. Chad topped everything off in the tank and about got blown off of the truck when the fan clutch engaged. What a fan!! All was going pretty smooth. I was opening the valve in the hot water personnel and opened it too far and it popped out and dropped to the frame. After all the air was out a big stream of hot coolant was shooting out of the heater onto the engine. I was screaming $%#@! turn it off Chad!!!
After we got that cleaned up, we let it run a little more, just checking everything out. The air compressor pumped primary and secondary systems up to 120 and then shut off so that was good. The low-air/parking brake whistle never shut up. I think that was because I still had the spring brakes caged so it thought the parking brake was on. The CTIS control was blinking unhappily at me. Prolly because both front wheels are still off and it gets no pressure readings. Other than that, it was great. The tranny warmed up and didn't make any bad noises. Man, it sounded good too. I can't wait to get it on the road!! Hopefully next weekend, it will take its first trip around the block!
More pics later!