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It's pretty simple really, I just didn't explain it very well! I knew what I meant and assumed you did too. The PO tried to start the 24v truck not knowing it was a 24v system, the batteries were dead so jumping it with a 12v battery to the front battery gave it enough power to engage the...

While you have the never seize out make sure you put some on the heater core nipples, that makes it much easier to remove in the future. Also to remove the seized on hose from the brass nipples use a sharp knife or razor blade to slice the hose lengthwise and peel it off the nipple, that keeps...

I feel it's worth having one sitting on the shelf, but then I have the space and got a "locked up" engine given to along with the rest of the truck because of the "bad" engine. Turned out the dumb previous owner tried to start a 24 volt truck with one 12v battery and the starter engaged and...

No need to to clear coat it and end up with possible delam/ future touch up problems, just use a hardener for enamel . Use a generic or Dupont, PPG ectara. One pint per gallon of unreduced enamel and just a tad reducer and first coat spray it light (tack coat) 2nd and 3rd coats lay it on.

I haven't read all the post so with that in mind... The only time and thing I flush besides a toilet is a transmission oil cooler! And that is done before installing a new or rebuilt tranny, Commercial products are available but $$$ so I use low PSI compressed air and ATF simple and cheap.

Never done that but that's what Id do.

I too recommend an IP But before that check all the lines from the tank to the fuel pump on the engine block, those lines are NOT under pressure and may allow some air in. If it's sucking air in it most likely would also leak fuel when shut off but who knows? Did you REPLACE the fuel lines and...

I don't think a winch will last long getting submerged like that! Next your friends say "I dare you" don't do it, it cost you money not them! :)

camarossguy2 You forgot to add in the price of the shoe horn you used to pry everything in there! Great job.

I guess you could rewind it but wouldn't it be easier to bend the float level rod? IIRC you just pull the assy. and guesstamate how much to bend it, what the worst that can happen the gauge will be off. Or disassemble the gauge cluster and pull off the needle and reinstall, I did that on...

I think it's fine, I had suck in a red shop towel once. I'm sure it was funny to watch me struggling to pull the rag out and shut the darn thing off at the same time. Ended up pulling one head as the rag was stuck in the valves! Engine was fine.

The SM465 has a pretty tall housing on top for the shifter, are you sure thats not hitting the floor? Second thing I'd check would be bell housing to fire wall and look for engine to frame ground straps. All fairly common and simple but easily overlooked.

I wonder if the po thought he had a grounding problem with the fuel solenoid and rigged it up.

Glow plugs would be my first guess

Well there goes my advice, I was going to say pull the batteries and take them home and charge them overnight and then load test. Oh well new ones are even better. Cangrats!

To wear or not wear seat belts, I'm not going to call names or anything like that just a simple true story. A Few years back I stopped at the scene of an accident that just happened, a woman that resembled a bundle of rags had been ejected thru the windshield of her Cherokee and was laying in...

I think the answer is right there in your post "The motor wouldn't rev up ", your not going to be curb hopping if your engine is performing poorly.

I used one in a 4x4 civilian truck and it fit real good, so good that I bought a second one for a project truck. That one sat for a couple years rolled up in the shipping box in the attic of my garage. When I went to use it it had cracked and split under it's own weight! Your mileage may very.

Fuel is a long shot unless you got gas instead of D2, accidents do happen. Check the lift pump pressure, from my experience when that goes bad it's hard to start not so much your symptoms.

I did something like what your wanting years ago, IIRC it was easier to change the in cab harness than to try to mate them together. I ended up with power windows and lock too as a bonus. The taillight harness I believe plugged into the civvie on no problem. What the heck is a "bull dog"...