Recent content by Greenlee

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UPDATE: Polished the crank and replaced rod / main bearings. Fired the truck up and let it run in the yard for about 20 minutes. It initially had about 120 lbs. of oil pressure upon start up. Drove it a couple of miles and everything seemed fine. Started to drive it again and oil pressure...

Depending on how bad the crank is, you can polish it with emory cloth while it's in the truck.

We have a theory now that the oil cooler was bad and replaced by the military. The engine probably had water in it from the oil cooler being bad and was screwed before he got the truck. I have told my friend about this forum and he can't wait to get on here. He has a hopped up Dodge diesel...

He said it had 60lbs. oil pressure. Could the oil cooler have anything to do with it? It looks like someone was pretty sloppy with the silcone when they worked on it. Is there something in there that could be clogged up?

My buddy just bought a 69' M35-A2 with the multifuel turbo engine at auction. The truck is clean, but would not start. It appears to have about 15,000 miles and 600 hours. He replaced the fuel pump, and it fired up and seemed to run good at first. However, he drove it about a half mile and...