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Update. Made it through the storm ok. Lost power and water. We'll see for how long on each. Old girl sacrificed her batteries to keep my fridge going on the overnight but if that's the only casualty I'll take it.

No mechanical lift pump. That spot has the stock 6.5 turbo drain. I have an areomotive setup I put together. Fuel pressure is set at 10 psi and seems to hold that regardless of load.

It's on the list to be checked. Install of the cam went pretty smoothly from what I remember. I do have a spare cam I can use if needed. Yeah with all the issues I've had with this block that's why I want to change it out in time. But if it can be salvaged for a bit I'm good with that.

The cam bearing where replaced when I rebuilt it. About a 1000 miles ago. While the pan is off I'm going to turn the crank to check the bottom of the cylinders. If there's scoring on the bottom there will be on the top. I have to check the rest of the mains and rods to see their condition. If...

Good to know. I'll have to find some. That being said may take me longer then planned to get her torn how as I have to get ready incase a little storm called Irma comes my way. I'm in central Florida and looks like in someway shape or form it's going to affect me.

Yea, lots to clean. I'm hoping to get the heads pulled this week. See what I get done. Cam bearing would be interesting to change as I'm trying to do all this without pulling the block out of the truck. So I'll see what they look like once in get to that point.

Yep. Last time I used all standard size. I'll be checking to see if that's still the case.

Definitely need to check to see if I need over sized or not. Probably wouldn't hurt as with a standard oil pump it only had 8 psi at hot idle. So little tighter mains with a high volume should help that.

The only one with something that could be felt is #3 main. I don't feel anything on the others. So I'm thinking rod and main bearings, new high volume oil pump, rebuild the ip and run her as is. Shouldn't be to hard to clean any shavings. If you wet the Emory cloth with oil it'll catch most of...

Here's the cap side of rods 3 and 4.

With the amount of fuel that has dripped out when I pulled mains 2, 3, 4. It's likely that cylinders 1 and 3 did just get washed down and may come back. They don't look to bad considering so I'm going to pull a couple of the rods to check them.

If I have to I'll do it in frame as I have a dingle berry hone I can use. Easy enough to pull the one head and pop out the piston if needed. I have to get it torn down first. I'll see if I can't get the pan pulled at least this weekend.

It ran on its own for about 30 seconds and slowly stopped itself. I ran from it like a little kid screaming "oh shit!!!" It still cranks over pretty good. Cylinders 1 and 3 lost about 50 psi of compression but it seems OK otherwise. If I try to save it I was actually thinking of putting fresh...

Most db2 pumps have .029 plungers, the ds4 and db4 use .028s but they have 4 verses 2. Here are the numbers from mine. K1 DB2 833-4974 10073525 14098680

I was surprised too. Oh my mind agrees that a optimizer takeout is the way to go. It's getting my wallet to with it. Little tight on funds (who isn't these days) and it's suppose to be a backup rig. So been kinda hoping I can least get it running for the time being. I'm half tempted to pan on...

Well finally got a hold of the guy, already sold. Back to square one.

If you want the option of them to be reversible just put a small stub piece on each one that faces "in." You should be able to get a 2-into-1 silicon transition piece that would allow it to be faced either direction. I'm pretty sure that's what the 7.3 powerstrokes used. Hell might be able to...

If I'm picturing it right you're planning to basically make a pair of log style intakes and then join them somehow? Your math on the tubing size sounds fine and shouldn't be an issue. The challenge is making a smooth transition between the two sides of the engine and the single charge tube from...

I'm hoping I can go see it tomorrow if in get a hold of the guy. For the price I'll just buy it. Yeah once the runaway engine is pulled, I'll tear it down and inspect everything real good. See what's worth keeping and what's trash.

Was a ton for sure. Hopefully the internals didn't get damaged that I can reuse/sell oneday. I still haven't heard back from the person with that dirt cheap chassis. I'll try again in the morning.