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It’s not like the break in period rids the cylinder walls of the cross hatching either. When my heads were swapped out for P-400’s I had about 20K on the rebuild and the cross hatching was still present. The pictures weren’t the best so, not able to post up. FWIW, I broke my truck in pretty...

Maggie’s actually the ‘expert’ having a degree in Construction Management. The rest of have done this before but, really don’t KNOW what we’re doing.

Just about

Started with only a wisp of smoke that stopped immediately. Drove from SLC to Kingman with no smoke on restarts. Calling this one solved. Sunset overlooking Lake Mead’s surroundings. Narrow road (Pabco). BLM Rangers stopped traffic so a stolen car could be recovered What happens in Vegas...

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I've been seeing some videos pop up lately of doing 'dry pour' with Ready Mix type stuff. Not sure about that. I've helped with some small projects but, nothing that needed any real quality type work. I'm just helping Chris (owner of the VW powered streamliner and Karmen Gia salt flat cars I...

Not much more than day-labor-helper stuff.

Just a little. We’re behind on the “water year” but, more snow starting tomorrow in the forecast and lasting through the weekend. Me, I’m loading up the truck and heading to Kingman AZ to help a friend pour concrete for his new work shop floor. Temps are up towards the 60’s and forecasted to...

The day started off pretty nice. Pulled #6 GP and it looked fine. Gave it 12v for a few seconds and, like all the others, lit up just fine. Removed the old harness and will keep it around for a little testing. Thinking 12v to the harness, inserting a GP into one connector at a time and...

The heat shield removal and harness threading technique is an old, tried and proven technique. Thanks for adding it to the thread. It’ll help others and now I don’t have to write it up later. I looked up the QS Exhaust Manifold Bolt kit (why isn’t it listed under ‘exhaust?’) and it looks like a...

Good progress but by no means done. Monday Removed the passenger side wheel and inner fender. Removed the #2, 4 and 8 glow plugs. No swelling, shortening, etc. This is what 8 and 2 looked like before putting 12v to them. Put battery power to them individually using vice grips on the hex and...

I appreciate the observation but, I’m going to disagree on all the above. Nothing is banging on anything else externally. These heads replaced the old units that did have valve issue and the issue existed before the exchange. I’ll check on a restart for anything pushing out the air cleaner...

Have been either sick, on the road or in a complete ‘screw it’ mood for the whole month. Decided to address the issues of the smoky start by replacing the glow plug wires with the new set from ZombieSolutions and to test the glow plugs themselves starting on the passenger side to get that...

Private tests on various glow plugs done in shop by Heath Diesel years ago. 10v power applied to the plugs with timers to see how long they lasted before failure. No name or ‘insta heat’ no name brands lasted maybe an hour or two at best. 60G plugs lasted a a day or so of continuous energizing...

Can we assume correctly that by ‘just plugged it in to see if it ran’ you mean you had the new PMD mounted on to a heat sink the whole time you were testing it to see if it ran? Just making sure.

Confirm the advice on fuel pressure at the Fuel Filter manager. A quick and dirty way is to use an inexpensive pressure/ vacuum gauge. Replace the hose with a long enough length of 1/4” line to run from the T-Valve and up to the windshield. Tape the gauge securely to the windshield so you can...

After breakfast with BigT, I came home to see that the truck was providing a much needed service by collecting leaves from the Honey Locust tree.

Auto Spell Correct correction: The tires from S. Korea are NEXENs, Not “Nextel.” Auto Correct; Just one more of the technologies making my life less enjoyable…. Thought about Injectors too so, I have a new set that I want to get tested before swapping in. The current set of Duraturm’s have...

If you’re referring to the clear line void of fuel, correct.

Notice while up in MT last summer trying to be of help to Big-T that my first starts were starting to have a little smoke. Hmmm Acrid diesel smoke that cleared up quickly as engine came to life. It was kinda hit and miss up there but, when it ‘hit’, the smokewas getting a little worse. Longer...