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Well Jed, painting deuces is like painting houses. Give it a good scrape and mop on some paint. Well, not exactly. Gave it a final bath this morning and blew it off. Let it dry while sandblasting some stuff. Finally made it back to the engine before 10AM and sprayed a couple of coats of paint...

OK, this might be the last installment on this thread. Today I byppassed the plumbing to the flame heater, plugged up the holes where the heater was plumbed in and looked it over real good. Tonight after the kids went to sleep I doused it with engine cleaner and gave it a good cleaning. It will...

Wish it were closer! Dang! Reserve not met is always a good sign! LOL

Plan on cleaning the compressor filter, replacing the oil and fuel filters and giving it a good scrubbing. Might even hit it with 383 green since I have some here. Also going to buy a stud kit and put an extra PTO on this trans before the swap so I can just pull the other powerpack with its PTO...

A few more! One of the engine, one of the redneck engine picker upper and one of the other parts I've been collecting including the coolant recirc heater.

Here are some pics of the engine on the trailer, the data plates and a few others. One pic you can see the compressor pulley spinning.

Good than maybe mine is from Letterkenny Army Depot. Closer inspection shows it says LEAD. Just confirmed, its from Letterkenny! Awesome!

Last night I was checking out the donor truck that gave up the engine. Firstly I found that the engine was depot overhauled at TEAD (whats that?) in 1989. Std bores .010 on rods and mains. Anyway I found a data plate on the dash indicating a limited depot overhaul for the entire truck dated...

Well, today was ground hop day. I spent a few hours moving parts from the LDS to the LDT and generally fooling about with the engines. Still have some little things to tidy up such as taping a few holes that got rusty in the absence of bolts and a few little parts to pick up. I bypassed the...

The white one is part of the "Arkansas Boys". He bought 5 trucks from GSA and had them hauled to his place in north FL. The Arkansas trucks got ther own spot in the yard and that nickname. All were somewhat civilianized and all started with just a jump. I was asking him just the other day...

Few pics! More tomorrow!

Just stepped in the door from my little journey to Ft Lauderdale. Outside on the M103A3 is an LDT465-1C and an LDS465-1A with a bad bottom end. Between the 2 I should be up and running. Find out soon!

I'm thniking it would be just as easy to put it in with the big wrecker Matt has. I've looked into running the crane from another power source but it doesn't look practical. FYI the mail hose to the pump looks like 1 1/2"

Jed, when are you dropping your engine in the truck? I was just out making an organized plan of attack. I'm planning on using 2 days while the engine and tranny are out to tidy up, run new fuel lines and change all the necessary plumbing for the LDT. Also have to change fuel tanks. Might even...

Alrightythen, I stopped by again this morning and took loose the one fuel return line I forgot. Matt was there so I conned him into some air to run my impact. Took off the front bumper to ease access. Figured I'd just go ahead and drain the oil. Yesterday I reported on how good the air...

Hey, its a pic, totally unrelated but its a pic! BTW, I flat towed that from Columbus OH to FL with my dually and it had no engine. The things you do to get a $170 deuce home.

Well, might have it ground hopped by Fri but not in the truck. That comes the forst week of Feb. And since you need a pic..........

OK, went by M-Trucking this morning about 6:30am. Had all the tools in the car and was planning on doing everything to get this engine ready to remove. I guess I didn't figure on no one being there and the air compressor off. The air tools stayed in the car and I went to work. The radiator was...

Much thanks Bjorn!

Got one Robert. I don't want to strip off the tranny so I'm just going to booger a piece together for this one job. I went by this morning and cut everything loose. It's ready to lift out. I'll get it monday and bring it home for some testing/work