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Certainly doesn't seem like it's been nearly a year since I updated this. All I can remember doing this year was polishing and waxing the truck, and redoing the headliner and some other small odds and ends. Except for when the core plugs got all rusty on me and started weeping last week. I tried replacing those in the truck, but was just too difficult to swing hammer and try and get them in straight. I wound up pulling the engine and did the rear main seal, oil pan gasket, fixed the STUPID dipstick boss that leaked on the oil pan and resealed the timing cover. All I have left to do in the morning is take it outside and take the hose to the core plug holes and flush the block and then put the new ones in and it's ready to go back in the truck.
I checked the oil pickup bolts, they weren't very tight!
Sure is clean inside.
New seal fit much tighter on the crank than the old one. Also pressed in much more snug than the old one came out. I was pressing on the old one lightly with a screwdriver before I removed it and I could push it around.
This has got to be one of the more ******* designs I've seen on a engine. What was wrong with just making it press into the block like some of the older engines did?
Drilled out rivets, tapped rivet holes for bolts. Made new gasket, degreased and sanded everything clean. Used a lot of 515 gasket eliminator on it. Blue loctite on the bolts with lock washers. Should be good to go.
Felpro 1 piece steel core gasket. Dab of silicone on the corners and a light film on the half moon part and it's good to go. I did give the oil pan a coat of 515 gasket eliminator since the sealing surface wasn't totally flat. Had to massage it a bit and got it more flat than it was.
Wow, been a while since I've been on here. I can't think of much of anything I've done since the engine work except a set of belts, a hot air tube/hose to the air cleaner, and greased the steering and king pins a couple times and washed the truck several times. Just been driving it!
First thing I've done to it in a while, I put a loud turn signal flasher in, as the original was getting slow. Works great, except it clicks so hard it'll work right out of the socket. a few zip ties around the top and bottom relays fixed that. I put a external transmission filter kit on it today so I can actually have a filter on it and replace it every so often. I had a new 2 AWG solenoid to starter cable/wire made that I need to install. Same type of cable I used for the alternator charge wire. Need to detail the inside, and polish and wax the outside soon. And I need to replace the power steering return hose soon as it's looking pretty swollen and sweaty. Also every hose I replace I get rid of the stupid regular worm clamps for fuel injection clamps. Those not only clamp tighter without cutting into the hose, but they never loosen up!
Plenty of room to get the full size filter in and out.
I made a adapter plate out of a piece of aluminum I had. The filter mount assembly will fit in that recess but the filter itself won't.
Well doesn't time fly. I haven't really done anything to the truck out of the ordinary except install a wideband O2 air fuel ratio gauge the other day. Last October I put a new timing cover and harmonic balancer on. Changed oil with a high mileage full synthetic 5w30 and those noisy comp cams lifters are silent now on cold start. They used to always thrash. Not sure why, I've used conventional 5w30 for several years, but switching to the full synthetic high mileage made a big difference in how it sounds. I have some carb tuning to do. I also purchased a Holley 4160 list 4548 450 CFM carburetor for cheap to go through and put on. 600 CFM is a bit much for this engine and what I do with it. Hopefully it won't suck quite so much gas with the 450 CFM carb.
Haha. That timing chain is tighter now than when I installed it about 14,000 miles ago. I didn't even want to shell out the money for a balancer, but it was the original and the rubber was pretty cracked up and rotten looking. Plus the seal surface had a nice big groove in it. I should have put a new timing cover on when I resealed the engine a couple years back.
I decided to order a Marti report and the turnaround time was less than a week. I'm happy with the report.
Definitely not many built with that paint/trim combo. I always knew it was rare since I see very few that look like mine, but didn't know it was that rare. When I bought the truck it was pretty much as optioned except someone added a tach/trip meter cluster and it was missing the spare tire stuff, and had some ancient aftermarket AM/FM CD player in it. That truck sure sat around a long time before someone bought it!
Been a long time since I've updated this. Really haven't been doing anything to it but driving it 2-3 times a week like usual. I did put new wheels and tires on it last summer. I'd like to have it repainted the same colors someday as the paint on the fenders is getting more porous and harder to keep clean. But I really don't even have time to stop and take a dump as of lately.
I don't know how I missed this thread but very nice looking truck. My 85 F150 was the same color combo as yours, but it was in much worse shape. And now your telling me its a rare color combo!? Should finally be adding to my build thread since I am getting close to finishing up some work.
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