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Great job! Now get the wheel wells in and wheels on and start heading to my house. We can do my engine next.
Hold supper for me! Truthfully, it was a long project. Jan 2 until today. I don’t think there was a day I didn’t do something on it. I’m pleased and glad to be finished.
Nice thread! learning a lot.. still have a lot to read and catch up on..
I'm pulling my engine here within the next couple of months.
Would any of y'all be willing to loan me, sell me, or make me, one of those handy dandy engine lifting brackets? I don't have access to a welder or any machining equipment where I'm at.. Someone on ebay sells one, but it's about $200. If it's that much easier than running a chain through the two lifting points, I'd like to have one
I've welded up one and was going to sell them on eBay, but there is a guy on there selling at that price, well, we’ll under the $200+ now so I haven't bothered. The $200 is fine for a shop, but it's a huge markup.
The standard brackets can work too, you just have to drill the holes per the pedestal.
Nice thread! learning a lot.. still have a lot to read and catch up on..
I'm pulling my engine here within the next couple of months.
Would any of y'all be willing to loan me, sell me, or make me, one of those handy dandy engine lifting brackets? I don't have access to a welder or any machining equipment where I'm at.. Someone on ebay sells one, but it's about $200. If it's that much easier than running a chain through the two lifting points, I'd like to have one
You're welcome to borrow mine for the price of round trip shipping. It may be about $20.00 each way.
Saturday, 2 days after 1st start-up was my first drive. The engine performed as any of us would hope for, without fault!
I had installed the new Isspro fuel pressure gauge before the initial start-up on Thursday, but there was a leak that didn't stop after one tightening. It was interfering with getting the truck running so I removed the sender and installed the original port plug. Yesterday, I had the sender and 2 adapters on the work bench. I put the metric to NPT adapter in the vice, and threaded in the 45 degree fitting to the metric adapter. Previously those 2 pieces were pretty snug against each other but still leaked. This time I tightened them enough that I figured the leak was gone, or if I tightened any more one of them was gonna snap.
Next I installed those 2 brass fittings back in the fuel filter housing, and snugged down the Isspro sender into the 45 degree fitting. All was good, it has remained dry.
There has been a casualty, the cheap a** foreign starter I installed in the recent past, is likely headed to the graveyard. The amount of cranking necessary to bring a dry engine's HPOP to life must be demanding of even a good starter.
Anyway, we were deliberate the other day while cranking.
I used the crank wire to battery and bypassed the ignition system.
I spun the engine for 20 seconds and then 20 minutes of cool down.
I intended to do six 20 second cranking cycles, with 20 minutes rest between cranks. Well...we were at about 17 seconds into the 5th crank cycle when the starter began to labor some and then the SMELL, uh oh. So I stopped cranking.
I waited awhile, but decided to give up on priming and go for key on cranking and hoped the engine would fire before the starter died.
At this point the glow plug circuit was NOT and had NOT been connected.
I had previously plugged in the block heater for 10 hours, had previously dumped in fresh oil that was already at 70 degrees, and the garage was at about 75 degrees. Glow plugs were still NOT connected.
The stars must have been aligned because we cranked for about 6-8 seconds and quit, and then started cranking again for about 8-10 seconds and the engine fired off!
The starter still spins, but the toll has been taken. I've ordered another cheap a** starter.
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