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Usually you should stay with the same style and manufacturer when switching out injectors. Since it is becoming harder to find a new/good used set of six injectors you might just have to mix and match. That being said, you must make sure they have the same size injection holes, and put out the...

The best engine for the Deuce would be a truck diesel. Having said that there are many gas engines that were created as truck engines. What are the differences you say ? For one the blocks were usually made of heavier castings (stronger) , the "thrust bearings" were much stronger (bigger) , and...

That is a great looking truck ! I need one in that condition for my engine modification project. I found a late model HydraMatic (1955) that came out of a V8 chevy car. Has the early style small block housing. With all the spare transmissions I have here and all the NOS parts I should have a...

Totally agree ! I would love to have that truck and make it a mobile repair rigg.

That engine has the "special" side ventilation option. 😁 Some of the C9 CAT engines in the early 2000's had that option too. 😉

Part off the problem is the sky-high price of copper and brass right now. Also most manufactures no longer make copper cored radiators. There almost all aluminum today. So to find a company that will make a real copper cored radiator with copper or brass tank tops is rare and costly. The one...

That sounds about right. You can go with an aluminum radiator like many others have. There are several build threads on it.

I'm sorry for your loss "m1010plowboy". I lost both my parents within a year of each other. That was over twenty years ago now, but I still miss them. That "O" ring on the flywheel is to seal the torus ring just like "M37Keppy" said. There is of course that large "O" ring that seals against the...

Your trucks looking pretty good ! I like the idea of mounting your 9:00X20's to that nice green pick-up. That way you can go and scare little Toyota Pruis's . :devilish:

Centrifuge is really the only safe way to go. The metal particles in used engine oil can ruin your injection system really fast. Even filtering down to 2 microns still allows small metal particles through that will damage your pump and injectors.

I bet your glad you didn't mess with the injection pump now ! These old diesels need to be run on a regular basis or bad things happen. It was very gratifying to hear it come to life ! Now is the time to run a good engine cleaner through it and then change the engine oil and filters. Then...

I just eliminated the "J" pipe and went with a straight pipe to the muffler. Worked great for years now.

What's sad is that the powers that be might use this incident to try and ban the sell and use of older military vehicles. Stating it can be used as a weapon of mass destruction ! So for the publics good they must be taken off the roads.

Thanks Gerhard ! I tried for quite a while to find that post. You asked in that post about "real power steering" . I had referred to my future power steering project in that post which "7bdiver" has now done. I got sidetracked with all the other projects here, number one being my new shop. The...

I forgot to mention, there is two different housings for the steering gear. One has a tendency to crack. I posted pictures showing the differences between the two. You cannot depend on the age of your truck either for which one you get. I've found the bad ones on later years and the good ones on...

My bad. I misread the post. You can make a dual shaft into a single shaft and a single shaft into a dual shaft with the correct parts. You really need to totally disassemble the PTO though. Check all the bearings and bushings, and replace whats needed. The shop manual gives very good step by...

I found some pictures, but nothing that will show the insides much. This first one shows the dual PTO before I rebuilt it. The second shows another single shaft PTO before I rebuilt it. The third picture shows the completed single shaft PTO. The fourth picture shows the single shaft PTO with the...

I tried to find my old rebuild post here but couldn't find it. This new site sucks about that. We used to have all our pictures and posts in a private list you could access. Now nothing. I'll try and see if I backed it up on my computer somewhere. At least some pictures if I'm lucky.

That was why I modified the steering gear. The extra stress put on it in a "no hydraulics" situation is tremendous. Of course that shouldn't happen often (hopefully !) , but if it ever did I didn't want the steering gear to break.

I posted my rebuild of several PTO units here, including the dual shaft one mentioned.