llong66
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Well, I FINALLY got it started today! Over the last cpl of months I have been rebuilding a 6.5l turbo for my M1008 and today I finally got it fired up!! I ended up putting it back in NA for now, after all the $$ I spent, a chunk of it unexpected, I just didnt have the funds for the turbo exhaust from the est. I got. I have all of the parts, and this way over the winter I can rebuild the turbo and just instal it next spring.
My truck had a 6.5l repower when I got it, but it had LOTS of problems. It had been over heated at one time and when I got it, it had a cracked head, when I was replacing them I could see when it had been run hot, the #7 cyl had been scored pretty bad and had really low compression and lots of blow by so I wasnt even running on 8 cyl fully.
I bough a rebuild kit from Northern Auto Supply, it inc. new pistons, cam, lifters, also bought new rods, SCAT crank SSdiesel heads w/diamond pre cups. I had it magniflux of course, bored 0.03 over, and balanced, The machinist got the piston/rod assemblies to within 0.5 gr of each other. He said it would run like a sewing machine and it does! VERY smooth!!
My only concern is that the rt bank is smoking a lil at idle and when going down the road. It looks to be greyish/blueish smoke, I hope its just the rings seating, cant imagine what else it could be. The heads only have a few K on them.
When I got it ready to start, I had the GPs out and the inj. lines loose I cranked it over for a total of maybe a min min and a half and started getting fuel at the inj. I tightened them up, installed the GP and it fired right up, and I mean RIGHT up, maybe 15 sec of cranking! This was all with an elect, lift pump.
The difference between this motor and the original is really amazing with all 8 cyl working right, I cant imagine what the turbo is going to be like!
I want to thank every one who answered questions I had during the build, this site is awesome!!
My truck had a 6.5l repower when I got it, but it had LOTS of problems. It had been over heated at one time and when I got it, it had a cracked head, when I was replacing them I could see when it had been run hot, the #7 cyl had been scored pretty bad and had really low compression and lots of blow by so I wasnt even running on 8 cyl fully.
I bough a rebuild kit from Northern Auto Supply, it inc. new pistons, cam, lifters, also bought new rods, SCAT crank SSdiesel heads w/diamond pre cups. I had it magniflux of course, bored 0.03 over, and balanced, The machinist got the piston/rod assemblies to within 0.5 gr of each other. He said it would run like a sewing machine and it does! VERY smooth!!
My only concern is that the rt bank is smoking a lil at idle and when going down the road. It looks to be greyish/blueish smoke, I hope its just the rings seating, cant imagine what else it could be. The heads only have a few K on them.
When I got it ready to start, I had the GPs out and the inj. lines loose I cranked it over for a total of maybe a min min and a half and started getting fuel at the inj. I tightened them up, installed the GP and it fired right up, and I mean RIGHT up, maybe 15 sec of cranking! This was all with an elect, lift pump.
The difference between this motor and the original is really amazing with all 8 cyl working right, I cant imagine what the turbo is going to be like!
I want to thank every one who answered questions I had during the build, this site is awesome!!
