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When it gets really cold, it'll drop into the upper 20s for a couple hours, but that's pretty rare. I bought the truck from a guy in eastern Washington state-I don't know how cold it gets there-but he obviously wasn't using it!
What?? All that work and no paint!! You were so close. Haha just busting your chops. Good work. Should have oil pressure for days with that high volume pump.
Well, I didn't finish today, but I got a lot done:
Hooked-up the headers
Installed the starter
Tightened-up the motor mounts
Hooked-up the oil pressure line
Hooked-up the vacuum lines
Discovered that my harmonic balancer was no longer in harmony
Ran down a replacement for the harmonic balancer. Should be here Tuesday
Had lunch
Hooked-up temperature sender
Installed distributor cap, plugs and wires
Cleaned and installed the carburetor
Installed my fancy new chrome oil cap
Cleaned up the pcv valve
Installed a new snout on the air cleaner base plate. Installed pcv hoses
Hooked-up electricals
Posed for picture, contemplated new thread on FTE
Installed bracket and alternator
Installed bracket and power steering pump
Installed bracket and air conditioning pump
Cleaned-up a bit
Parts and connectors remaining:
Radiator
Radiator hoses and clamps
6 bolts for hood
4 bolts for fan
4 bolts for radiator
4 screws for shroud
No leftover parts nor pieces, but I am short one matching nut for the power steering pump. I think I used it on the new oil pickup, because I liked it better. The one from the oil pickup is on the power steering pump-no parts left over!
Got my new harmonic balancer installed
Got the pulley and belts on
Removed the mechanical oil pressure sender
Reinstalled both the electrical and mechanical senders on a tee
Installed the fan and radiator
Hooked up the batteries
Installed the hoses and filled the radiator
Added some oil
Checked everything over and fired it up!
Fired right up, and oil pressure reads about 70 lbs
No more light. Tomorrow, I look at:
Exhaust leak
Possible ATF leak
Secondary battery relay not kicking
Got my new harmonic balancer installed
Got the pulley and belts on
Removed the mechanical oil pressure sender
Reinstalled both the electrical and mechanical senders on a tee
Installed the fan and radiator
Hooked up the batteries
Installed the hoses and filled the radiator
Added some oil
Checked everything over and fired it up!
Fired right up, and oil pressure reads about 70 lbs
No more light. Tomorrow, I look at:
Exhaust leak
Possible ATF leak
Secondary battery relay not kicking
70 psi Good pressure, might be time to move down to lighter weight oil you will have to see when she is heated up and the oil thins out.
Well, the second battery relay turned out to be a blown fuse.
Cleaned-up the transmission lines-don't see a leak, but will keep an eye on it
Added ATF (Dexron 3/Mercon)
Put the hood back on
Drove it around
Adjusted the idle speed
Washed it
looks great, I had that clear plastic oil pressure tubing and it blew apart and oil went all over the fenin place, change it to copper or you may be sorry.
looks great, I had that clear plastic oil pressure tubing and it blew apart and oil went all over the fenin place, change it to copper or you may be sorry.
I second that one. But no need to go to copper use air brake tubing used for air brakes it is more durable than copper, it comes in 1/4" OD and every fitting you would ever need or think of is available for it..
20 psi hot at idle is perfect. Great job, and the high volume pump is a good addition to any 335 series engine it should give you many more miles of service.
