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The site name doesn't mean a thing to me. Hell, if I thought he was talking about an 89 I wouldn't have been talking 6.2L either. Had just read 4 or 5 posts and then went back to this one. Just shows the importance of filling out your info, or at least putting it in the post.

Must have mixed a couple of posts in my mind or something. I see your info in your site name but that doesn't mean much when most of us have multiple items of rolling stock. Probably should fill out your signature with your vehicle info. I've had several 454s myself and they're rugged...

You're welcome. Blown head gaskets are common on the 6.2L so that's not a surprise. My 85 Suburban had a blown head gasket when I got it, though it wasn't mixing oil and water. Just depends one where it decides to let go and how long it's driven. Have your heads checked by a shop familiar...

Sounds like yours is pretty severe so you'll need to fix the problem or it'll probably just come back as fast as you do something to clean it out. I just did a 4.3L in a 95 1/2 ton Chevy that was a weird "water-in-oil" one. Compression was great so I was going to pressure test the cooling...

We used to get a lot of service calls caused by the loose nuts and misplaced dipsticks at the steering wheel. On the other hand, I've seen plenty of loose nuts and dipsticks on a wrench, too...

Exactly right. I always try to get the ones with zerks when I buy new cables. If they're the old spiral wound type without the plastic lining I take them off, coil them up, throw them in the solvent tank, then soak them in a bucket of old ATF. Definitely steep hills. Was in Tacoma, WA and...

Too many hills and mountains here in Western WA so we always use the P-brake. When I was wrenching for a truck shop that had a car and light duty section (and a AAA contract) we used to get calls to deal with transmissions stuck in Park. Always on some nasty hill, too. Being near military...

I've had that happen and it still makes me angry when I think about it. It did turn out okay once though. I was picking up a camper that I was buying and was driving my Army surplus Chevy CUCV. I parked on the street - legally - while we opened the gate and moved a couple of his kids toys and...

I'm doing a restoration and upgrade on an old Attex. This is the day I picked it up...

Without knowing what kind of setup someone has put on there it's hard to say. I've seen trucks where they swapped everything over from a regular truck and others where they just put on a switch and manually cycled the glow plugs until the engine warmed up. Do you have any idea what setup was...

I've worked on more CUCV's than I can remember and am still getting tagged to help out on them. They're great trucks and are really reliable with just basic care. On the 12V, that's pretty commonly done. We converted a bunch of them to 12V for the Forest Service and it was pretty easy and...

By the way, SCA's are normally specified in wet liner engines and generally with Heavy Duty engines to reduce or prevent the erosion of the liners from cavitation. The only light duty engine that I can remember that specifically required an SCA package was the International in the Fords, and...

The engine will idle for extended periods just fine. Your combustion won't be as good at idle and you'll get a small amount of fuel dilution (generally only detectable in oil analysis). If you want a bolt-on turbo kit, go with the Banks sidewinder. I've put them on 3 CUCVs and am getting...

I bought a water heater timer years ago and wired it to an outlet just for my truck and my wife's car (also a diesel). I had it set to come on about 2 hours before I left for work. It was great and I used it for years - until I retired. Now I pretty much use the same system as you do (right...

A lot of military cold start systems have a fuel nozzle and coil and ignitor (basically a spark plug) in the intake. You push the cold start button while turning the engine over and if ambient temperature is low enough it sprays fuel across the ignitor and shoots a flame into the intake...

Just have to remember that they don't provide your level of customer service and to me that's darn well worth paying a bit extra for. And you have to be careful paying for their expedited shipping (experience speaking here). Too much fine print. I was doing head gaskets on my son's...

Sounds like a great plan to me. It's amazing how much computer you're getting for that price! My first home computer was a Tandy 100SX back in late 86. Used two 5 1/4 floppies and ran MS-DOS. It was twice what your end cost was by the time I bought a color monitor and a color graphics card...

BTW, I have a Panasonic Toughbook with Windows 7 that I bought at an auction and it's fantastic, though a bit heavy and bulky. It had been a state police computer (New Hampshire, I think it said) that was in a van that was set up for jump scales and wasn't used much. Pretty much lived in the...

Toshiba makes a decent product but I still can't bring myself to buy their products. After they sold the technology for the propellers on our submarines to the Soviets in the 80's I blacklisted them and still avoid them. I've been happy with HP and Dell and one of my laptops is an Acer that I...

Had that same problem on my old Model A Ford. In my case the needle valve for the float was full of crud and sticking. Took the carb off, cleaned it all out (blew the passages out with carb. cleaner using the straw in the nozzle), reassembled it and it has worked fine for years since. I did...