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The engine compartment will get a bit of cleaning and freshening up as well... unfortunately I dont think I can get away with that at my shop due to environmental reasons, so its wire wheels, degreaser, scotch brite, and scrapers. On the other side of things, got a few more goodies cleaned and...

as I start pulling the valve covers off of my engine I saw a nicely horrible sight, walked over next door to show my mentor and he said right off the bat, "blown head gasket" I pointed out that the oil on the dipstick showed no signs of water, he said sometimes it doesnt, but if I drop my oil...

Its a harbor freight unit... capacity is 1 ton, you have to purchase the trolley and chain hoist separately, for those I opted for 2 ton capacity, I know I am still limited to one ton on the crane, but I figured the trolley and chain with higher capacity will operate better at 50% capacity...

Today I tore into the compressor base, oil cooler, and valve train cover plate... There was a LOT of corrosion in the oil cooler, so this was a good chance to clean it all up before the pieces received a good coat of rattlecan. I had also taken my flywheel to the machine shop to get resurfaced...

mine is pre turbo... it takes about 5 minutes to get that cool, after its "warmed up" it sits at about 300-315, so I figured that waiting until I hit 325 was a good bogey... mine is always running on WMO, so that may account for the higher EGT's as well.

Got a bit of progress done today, after finding that the flywheel on the replacement engine wasnt good, I had to pull the bad engine out of the deuce ahead of time to inspect its flywheel before I order my parts. I got lucky and that flywheel was good enough to machine. So after pulling it out...

So today the replacement engine came in, we got it unloaded as well as another "parts" engine and stuffed them in the shop. The engine looked like it has seen better days, and for piece of mind I pulled all the external components off so that I could get a better look at everything. I thought it...

I thought about the coolant in the oil, however checking the oil, it is still black... and yes I idle the engine before shut down, I have a pyro installed and wont shut down until EGT's get below 325. All three turbos were whistlers... The first one I ran in the truck for about 3 years no...

my gantry crane isnt that strong, but just enough for an engine swap, just finished assembling the whole setup earlier today.

You're right, at least ford circled the problem... :wink:

engine swap it runs! with video! So I have had the misfortune of blowing 3 turbo's in recent history... the first I attributed to turning the fuel up too much when I tried to adjust it without a pyrometer and cooked the poor little guy, it was seven different kinds of toast, gouges from...

I thought it was a T-4 flange as well, then measured the old gasket off of mine and found it to be a T-6

my oil pressure gauge bounces around ....

Thats a beautiful truck ya hot there [thumbzup]

I understand what you are getting at, I just have personally not seen much of a difference between a hard top and soft top as far as cab temperatures go... have you considered an insulated soft top? That should keep you warmer in winter, and still just as easy to remove as a soft top for summer.

as neat as vehicles seem to look with trees growing through them and what not, ever since I was a little kid I have always had a fascination with older run down vehicles, rat rods, and the like. It kinda saddens me to see vehicles with so much "potential" as I see it just rot away. And yes...

... I never really noticed much of a difference in that department myself...

wow that is a pretty slick setup... makes you wonder if something else will end up living under the hood that will put that suspension to the test.

also think about the leverage put on that hitch the way it is mounted, there is a real good chance a hard stop could shear those bolts holding it to the bumperettes right off. great attempt, just poor engineering on this one.

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