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Truck has been running great. This weekend I am going to sit down and go into detail. I have been having fuel pump issues. My in-tank pump went TU and my shop pump followed suit the other day. Is it possible to rebuild the intank pumps?
Yea, almost forgot to mention....After I got her primed and started and running, she quit on me...Lift pump sheet the bed(go figure) so the pix of the fuel pump rigged on the tank are what you get when you need to hot torque the freakin' heads and the stock pump quits whilst warmin' up.....COOP
The young lady in the cab is my 12 year old daughter Megan who is tougher than wood-pecker lips and loves huntin' fishin' and wrenchin'.... When she was two years old, we were outside doin' our thing and I looked at her leg and there was a hornet hangin' from his guts and I asked her if it...
All done!
OK.....Got back to it and tightened 'er all up. These are the final pix. I skipped alot of put-together pix after the heads were done. I am thinking about doing a walkthrough as I encountered several things that might require some additional mentioning to help ease the process for...
No work on the dumper today. Back was buggin me and didn't have it in me to be climbin up and down from the engine compartment...To be continued on monday.
I noticed that the pushrods in my engine were of two different designes...And I dont mean exhaust versus intake difference. I mean they were mix and matched amongst each other!
Just to clear this mess up some..... I have seen gasket sets ranging from $270.00 up to and over $900.00 depending on where you shop. I have also priced individual head gaskets through tractor supply sources going for $100+ each. I got my gaskets from FreightTrain through the kindness of his...
Sure, and you can go to McDonalds for lunch easy and cheap.... I prefer to brown bag it myself. I know what is in the bag, cuz I made it:-D. Coopie out again...
I guess it depends on how much you can buy and have an engine delivered for. I am doing this in my spare time. I don't consider it a tough job, just time consuming. It is actually kind of fun for me when I get to do a job without having to worry about time.
Thanks for the formula ENCS. I am sure it will be heplful for a lot of folks out there. I have a calibrated torque guage handy, so it is easy for me. Glad you have, and posted the formula. I am sure everyone will appreciate that very much, I know I did:-D. COOP