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I actually just came in from having started it for the 1st time in 3-4 months. Man, that engine rattle sounds bad. Should have shot a quick video.
I bet the 12V Cummins will be quieter than the 300 is now. Good oil pressure, leads me to believe it's got either a wrist pin or piston skirt issue.
It has a tire that went flat while sitting, but I'm gonna swap it for the spare. It really needs new rear tires anyways. I'm hoping to score a set of factory alloy "bullet hole" wheels to put on it, as I'm quite bored of the white "wagon wheels" that have been on it for decades, and they are starting to have bead sealing issues due to rust.
Drained the oil from Darth today, and on the advice of a friend who used to build a lot of marine engines, poured about 6 qts. of diesel fuel in and am letting it sit. I have been dealing with what seems to be a clogged intake screen for the oil pump. I did take a nice little dummy distributor someone made me and use it to spin the oil pump both forwards and backwards with the cooler inlet hose disconnected. I then connected it back, but left the return hose off and flushed the cooler.
Tomorrow, after it stands overnight, I will see what comes out of the pan drain.
Mario thats a great lookin truck. Just when I thought I was done with my 85, I scored a deal on a D60 for $300 that had a recent rebuild with all new axle shafts and everythin. Someone stole the passenger lockout but thats no biggy.
What I did today. Painted the frame, replaced both rear and midship fuel tank vent hoses with 1/4" hose, why? because the old line was rotten and I because I need to fill them tanks in a hurry! I also dealt with some trailer wiring in the back, 4 or 5 wires had mildly rubbed through wires, I taped those up and ziptied the whole bunch to the frame to help prevent rubbing. They were just hanging there vibrating before. Pretty snug now.
Yesterday I went to get my truck out of storage from my grandma's place in northern MN, my dad was there also, and we needed to bring some junk to the county dump. Since my truck was parked in front of the trailer in the garage, I said we should just hook it to my truck, so we did.
Pulled it no problem, despite having 3.08 gears.
Drove it 120 miles home today, it was pouring rain 3/4 of the way, only problem was I found out my wiper blades were shot, so I stopped to buy new ones at the beginning of the trip.
Continuing from yesterday I reflushed both directions on the oil pan to cooler inlet circuit then continued with my oil change. Here are some pictures of the oil filter adapter and cooler lines for anyone interested. There is also a picture of the oil pump priming tool Gary Lewis made that will fit 335 and 385 series engines and maybe a 351W. On the picture through the frame opening you can see the fitting and part of the supply hose to the cooler.
today i finally got to set my timing with a timing light. set it at 10 btc like the sticker under the hood said. had the smoothest idle and best throttle response at idle. i also tuned my carb in the best i could. now im trying to set my lokar tv cable but ive lost the fork and pending specs on it im kinda stuck.
Did some test fitting of the accessory brackets this afternoon, still have a few things left to paint. Despite marking and bagging bolts, I still managed to lose track of a few bolts as I found out today, so now I need to find a few more. I would like to do something about the alternator bracket, I took the smog pump off a long time ago and don't plan to ever use one again.
06-14-2014, 11:22 AM
