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Then it’s up to me to spend you a visit with the Mercury. I was ready to get the F100 back on the road but the motor makes some weird noise. I’ll have to check that out first. Hopefully not the worst case…
Ingo, I’ll surely do so! But right now, the Merc is out of duty since I had to remove the cooler to have it renewed completely. I hope to get it back in two weeks. Than I can come visit you.
In the meantime, I have driven the truck almost 800 miles and assume that the new engine has been broken in.
On Friday morning I drove off in the truck and after a few minutes I noticed an unusual engine noise. I immediately aborted the journey and drove to my garage. At first I feared a main bearing or rod bearing damage, but after listening more closely I assumed that it could be a defective hydraulic lifter. So I removed the valve covers to check this. It seemed to confirm that at least one hydraulic lifter was broken. So I dismantled the intake manifold to be able to remove the tappet.
I then dismantled the tappet and lo and behold... A valve plate was broken inside the tappet.
We still had a good smoked hydraulic tappet left so i just had to order a gasket set for the intake manifold. So I hope to have the engine running again tomorrow.
The engine is now complete again and sounds as it should.
Just as I'm writing this post, I notice a movement in the corner of my eye outside the window... a deer is watching me at work.
You're in Germany, right. What part? It looks like it could be Central PA.
Thank you Abe, yes it´s pretty nice here.
It's very rural, but I like that. My house is the last one in a small village, not far from the edge of the forest. We live about an hour away from Cologne here.
I was very unhappy with my original idea of the tank filler neck. It was too shallow, had too little gradient and the nozzle kept switching off when filling. I had built the tank filler neck into the rear panel so that I only had to open the tailgate to refuel. The idea behind this was that I was afraid I would have to fill up at some point when the bed was fully loaded. That's why I didn't want to make the filler neck in the bed floor and i did not want to cut one of the boards. But when do you ever have the bed of a truck like this fully loaded? So I decided to move the tank filler neck to the bed floor to make filling easier. Now I just have to cut a piece out of the board and make the cut-out piece foldable or removable and reusable.
before:
Fabrictated a little frame.
Bought a Fillerneck but the diameter was way bigger than the tube to the tank, so i had to get a reducer. I would have welded the reducer to the tank filler neck, but when I removed the paint from the tank filler neck to be able to weld it, I saw that the breather was soldered on, so I could have damaged the solder seam when welding due to the increased heat. So I had to solder on the reducer... yes, it's been a few years since I last did any hard soldering... not nice but it works.
Since I have a Chevy tank with a Chevy Fuelsender, the fuel gauge showed full when the tank was empty and vice versa. After some research, I decided to order the Meter Match from Tanks Inc. I have now calibrated it, wired it up and mounted it here:
It was a little bit tricky to calibrate but it works fine now.
As I had some problems with a whining and overfoaming power steering pump, I have now installed an oil cooler for the power steering. I'm curious to see if it leads to an improvement.
What have you got for a rack and pinion and power steering pump. I went through 2 pumps this year before finding out I had an issue. Turns out the pump was putting out about 1200 psi of pressure and the rack can only handle about 850 psi. The pump blew up while autocrossing both times. Had to buy an third pump and a pressure reducing kit. Hoping that solves that but wont know till next summer when I can autocross again. Street driving was fine as there was not a lot of load on the rack. And I put in a cooler just in case.
What have you got for a rack and pinion and power steering pump. I went through 2 pumps this year before finding out I had an issue. Turns out the pump was putting out about 1200 psi of pressure and the rack can only handle about 850 psi. The pump blew up while autocrossing both times. Had to buy an third pump and a pressure reducing kit. Hoping that solves that but wont know till next summer when I can autocross again. Street driving was fine as there was not a lot of load on the rack. And I put in a cooler just in case.
Marten I got my rack and pinion steering system together with the complete IFS form TCI which they say is a Thunderbird steering system.
I have done some research which you can read in this thread: Power Steering Pump question according to this this servo pump should not be too strong for the steering. However, after only 1000 miles, my rack and pinion steering is already leaking, so i am still grateful for any further information / help.
Marten I got my rack and pinion steering system together with the complete IFS form TCI which they say is a Thunderbird steering system.
I have done some research which you can read in this thread: Power Steering Pump question according to this this servo pump should not be too strong for the steering. However, after only 1000 miles, my rack and pinion steering is already leaking, so i am still grateful for any further information / help.
That is not good. Any idea where it is leaking out of?
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