Recent content by dcowan

Got it all back together today and fired up and running. Took more time than I expected. Here are some things to note from the process. Cleaning up all the gaskets was a real bear. Razor blades just wouldn't come close to cutting it. I ended up using 3m roloc gasket removal discs and they...

I got my bolts and gaskets. The head bolts have thread sealer (blue/grey) on the threads and red what looks like RTV on the bottom of the head cap. Should I add any sealer to the bolts or is that good enough. Also should I clean the oil out of the existing block threads and top of head?

The valve covers had no factory gasket. Only gasket maker. I ordered a gasket to put it back together. Any thoughts on that?

I'm having trouble finding the rocker buttons. Anyone know a good source?

In reading the TM it appears you can re-use the head bolts? Any thoughts on that?

I should add it took about 6 hours to get to this point. Pretty sure I could do it in 4 now.

I would appreciate any advice on putting it all back together. Here is my parts list I need to order. Head gasket Crossover Gaskets Intake gaskets Head bolts

Here is an update. I spent about two hours trying to suck it back up through the combustion chamber hole. I even tried using small poly hose to fish down in the combustion chamber hole to get down into the cylinder and suck it back up. I had no luck. The hole is oblong and really hard to...

I wouldn't have either, but I watched it fall right in. With a sick feeling as it went.

So I have similar and tried fishing it through the hole but it won't fit. The hole in the combustion chamber cup is to small to get the camera through. The other issue is I tried a magnet on a glow plug I removed that wasn't destroyed and the glow plug end is not magnetic

Changing all the glow plugs on my M1097R1 I bought off govplanet out of texas a couple weeks ago and every one tested bad. On the last one #2 back from front on driver side it came out with no plug on the end just the threads. I tried easy out with no luck and finally removed the injector...

Yeah, glad you reminded me. So I had the injector pump removed and they found that it required a complete rebuild which was going to cost about $2500. So I bought an already reman'ed unit from one of common vendors and it fired right up and have had no troubles since. I was concerned I also...

Yes those are the connectors and the ones I ordered looked like this also but the pin sizes were wrong.

Does anyone have a good source for the rubber plug connectors (I've seen them called packard, and deckard). Looking for the rubber boots and the internal spades. I ordered what I thought was correct on amazon and they turned out to be same size rubber plugs but the metal connectors were not...