These trucks are 25 years old or more. Why risk it for $25 and an hour of time? This is like the high side PS line, it will fail.

Do it around the time you flush the cooling system, you are going to be in there anyway.



If you pull the long block, have a valve job done. They are toast by now. I would do that before the HPOP if on a budget. Could also drop the push rods and do ARP head studs. Just depends on budget and time down.

 

At this point the budget is blown and down time is more than I would like. But I have another truck to drive while it is down, and can come up with the funds to do whatever it takes. I really just want to do this one time and be set for several years to come. If that means complete rebuild, then I am willing to go that route. I am heavily leaning towards pulling the motor and getting a motorcraft overhaul kit. The motor does not need this, but to fix all of its issues, I have to pull it, and I would prefer to be down an extra month and spend an extra couple thousand over doing all that work just to pull the motor again in a year or two. I personally don't have any real experience rebuilding a motor, but I would be taking my time and researching every step of the way. Motor, Trans, and Tcase are pretty much the only pieces of a vehicle I have never torn down and rebuilt. I will be doing whatever work (minus any machining) myself, so I guess I really just need to look into what all I would need done by others and what misc other parts I would need. I figure I would do the following, and please let me know if any parts are a waste of time.

Water Pump
PS Pump
Front Cover and Gasket
Alternator
HPOP
LPOP
Valve Springs
Valve Seals
SD UVCH
Heater Core
Motorcraft Overhaul Kit
ARP Head Studs
Head Gasket
Valve Job
Cam Shafts
Hybrid Injectors (maybe)
Push Rods
Dip Stick Fix

Anything I am missing? I want to price it up

 

Well the thought of doing it all at once was short lived. Truck wouldn’t start at all trying to leave work. Tried again 30 mins later and it fired after a few attempts. CNC stage 2 HPOP is on order. Guess I’ll do that and tackle everything else I decide is worth it at a later date hah

 

Dang, never fun when a vehicle doesn't want to start. Did they give you an eta when you'd get the new pump?

 

not yet, I placed the order pretty late so they were already closed. I’ll call them tomorrow to ask

 

If we are spending your cash, do 205/30s. Seem to be boss injectors.

Odd why would not light. Is it cranking fast enough?

 

it seemed to be cranking full speed, just never fired. Acted like it wanted to a couple times. I cranked it for about 6-7 seconds and then waited a couple minutes and tried again 3-4 times

 

Well they already printed a shipping label and changed my order status to shipped. Looks like I'll probably get it some time next week. Just gotta stick the truck in the garage and take the old pump out so I'm ready when it arrives

 

Thats good to hear it's on its way.

Did you check for rpms while cranking? The cps can can this issue

 

How cold is it where you are at?

 

Yeah they were fluctuating
At that time it was probably 90 degrees haha

 

Did you get the pump yet? Any more issues starting?

 

Supposed to be delivered today! I am hoping to get it installed before the weekend.

 

Sweet. I love package delivery day. Unless its fedex, then it'll be a day or 3 later before it arrives.

 

No kidding... I had to schedule a delivery for a specific time with FedEx freight to get the roof hatches for my current project at work. The appointment was in the afternoon yesterday. Needless to say, I still don't have my roof hatches, and I got to spend 30 minutes on hold with them today so that I could reschedule it.