You are welcome sir.
In truth, I would have suffered from a case of the fukits when someone would have told me the cab has to come off and lit it on fire.
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Wow you replaced everything!
Yeah pretty much! Well like every car project I’ve done or saw. It’s double the money and time than your original plan
Yeah you definitely spent a lot of coin. Great work.
good work. here’s to hoping it runs for another couple hundred thousand miles!
its monday is this thing running yet?
Sort of. More to come.
Oh boy here we go, turbo explode? Intercooler leaking? Injection pump failed???
Nothing major. Bad crank position sensor (of course after the motor was back in) and had it running, but just not quite right. Trying to diagnose it now.
I HATE when its all back together and somethingr small is messed up makes me feel like Im a failure :/. hope it gets resolved keep us updated. I
Burn Baby Burn
Day 11 1/2:
Well it was a good day / bad day scenario today. By the time I got there Mike had the batteries charging and had been cranking it for a bit. Took awhile but it finally fired up and it had a couple issues. The crank position sensor was not in good working order and we find this out of course after the motor is back in. Spent the better part of 3 +/- hours getting the old one out because it was fairly well bonded to the block and it broke in half so Mike had to come in with some techniques to get the tube out of the block. That was after I struggled with it and struggled some more to get the harness off it. I don’t think it could’ve been in a worse spot to get to. I think I used 32 tools in my attempts to get it switched out and the fucking swear jar is now a swear barrel.
Was running a little rough and took it down the street and obvious it was missing, although I wasn’t sure why. Turns out I had a hard time with one of the injector harness connectors on # 2 cylinder and guess what…the pins weren’t lining up and I didn’t know it so I ended up folding over a pin and that injector was dead. Now we’re gonna have to pull the driver valve cover off to pull the injector to repair the pin or replace the injector.
On a brighter note, there were no leaks, squeaks, clanging, explosions, or other noises that might make me believe it isn’t going to be alright. I feel much better about tomorrow now and hope to be driving it home.
Here’s the video to show “proof of life”:
Considering the depth of disassembly, 1 messed up harness and bad sensor aren’t all too bad. Congrats on the progress so far.
The injectors are not cheap either from what I have heard.
Stupid question… Do you have to purge/prime the injectors like in the old days? I remember as a kid people always said, “Don’t ever runout of fuel in a diesel!!!”
No they are not. As for the fuel, not to my knowledge. Mike starting cranking before I got there.
Congrats
OK, I finally read though all of this as I’m shopping for for the same setup truck. You’ve just confirmed for me that I’m going to buy one done(bullet proofed) already and if something goes wrong I’m just buying a brand new long block.
I would still get on a forum with a 6.0L section or area. I’m on FTE. If the “bulletproofing” isn’t done right or with lesser products, you can still have problems. Who knows. I may consider selling this one anyway.
Nice to see it running. I just picked up a 6.4 yesterday… Now we need a diesel section!