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It was a good day today, got some work done on my Deuce. I started out by putting the water manifolds back on with plenty of antisieze and new grade 8 bolts. Lets hope we don't have to go through that again.
After that I started working on flushing my cooling system... drained everything out at the petcock on the radiator (still never managed to find the other engine block drain, looks like I'll need to take the air filter canister off) and then removed the radiator cap, stuck a garden hose inside and let it idle at about 1250RPM for a while and a little higher later on.
After letting it run through the system I capped it off and drove to truck for a while, and tonight worked on changing the oil and filters. Started out by removing the oil pan plug at the front (made a mess) then removed the one towards the rear (made another mess) and then couldn't find the correct plug to remove to drain the canisters, so I loosened them up and you guessed it, made another mess, and replaced the filters.
After refilling the Deuce with oil and starting it up I noticed some oil leaking from the top bolt on the canister closest to the front of the engine. I loosened it up and then torqued it back down to 60lbs, then went a little bit more and it seemed to have stopped leaking.
I'll drain and refill and flush the cooling system with well water once more, then fill it up with diesel engine coolant and distilled water on Thursday.
Here's a little video... man I love the sound of that turbo
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_BzLa13fhI[/media]
When making the video I think I found out why my alternator is not working... watch closely and you can see the belt slipping and the alternator turning very slowly. Hopefully it just needs to be adjusted and its not a bad bearing or something. I would think if it was tight and slipping that much the belts would have overheated and broken... so that'll be another project for Thursday.
After that I started working on flushing my cooling system... drained everything out at the petcock on the radiator (still never managed to find the other engine block drain, looks like I'll need to take the air filter canister off) and then removed the radiator cap, stuck a garden hose inside and let it idle at about 1250RPM for a while and a little higher later on.
After letting it run through the system I capped it off and drove to truck for a while, and tonight worked on changing the oil and filters. Started out by removing the oil pan plug at the front (made a mess) then removed the one towards the rear (made another mess) and then couldn't find the correct plug to remove to drain the canisters, so I loosened them up and you guessed it, made another mess, and replaced the filters.
After refilling the Deuce with oil and starting it up I noticed some oil leaking from the top bolt on the canister closest to the front of the engine. I loosened it up and then torqued it back down to 60lbs, then went a little bit more and it seemed to have stopped leaking.
I'll drain and refill and flush the cooling system with well water once more, then fill it up with diesel engine coolant and distilled water on Thursday.
Here's a little video... man I love the sound of that turbo
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_BzLa13fhI[/media]
When making the video I think I found out why my alternator is not working... watch closely and you can see the belt slipping and the alternator turning very slowly. Hopefully it just needs to be adjusted and its not a bad bearing or something. I would think if it was tight and slipping that much the belts would have overheated and broken... so that'll be another project for Thursday.
