New building going up in Idaho, weather's been causing major delays resulting in staying west first time in the winter. Some cold conditions here I'll tell you, glad I got my outside wood fired boiler heating the house, nice a toasty. Finished the install just under the wire.
Got 10k miles on the old truck since the start of the saga, still runs fine. Did have some grief over the summer, sudden very hard start due to air in the fuel column, thought fuel gage might be lying. Made it down the hill to the regular fuel stop, loaded up both sides, wasn't that low to...
Getting ready to store the truck for the winter in Idaho. Greatly exceeded my expectations this summer. Hasn't used one drop of oil even tho it smokes like crazy on start up for a couple of minutes. Must admit I'm a bit of a convert now, got some power for not a lot of money. Of course I'm...
Might want to review post # 15. After 2000k highway miles @ 2500+ rpm, still dry down there and no oil consumption, engine is fine for my use. When it blows up, I'll build another.o_O
In Idaho for a while now, truck is in it's element. Tach shows 2700 @ 70 w/4.10 gears, rolls right up the Lewiston grade @ 65, 7% for 6 miles, like the 3" full length exhaust, a great sound, can't believe the way the turbo/fresh pump/nozzles woke up a weak puppy engine. Pulls the boat no...
Regarding the port match, Mark 4 Big Block Chevies have standard oval and rectangular intake ports, the HP ports being much larger. Read up on a discussion recently where, just for the heck of it, a HP intake was dyno flogged with standard heads. The effect would be a serious mismatch...
Had a pretty good back of oil pan/rear main type leak, changed the pan gasket as it was cork with rear rubber that didn't seem to get enough crush. The Felpro pan set was much nicer, let it all set up over nite with block heater on. Test beat Sunday it still marked it's place after word...
Test beat today, after a couple of days of details, like some one switched the heater control cables once, lets just say I've gotten pretty good at dash board work through repetition. Got the tach interface coming from Dakota Digital, other than that every thing works in a way.
Boost was only...
Finally getting close to running the truck down the road. Exhaust system for a 88 and up, used most of the parts other than a few L's for the turbo down pipe, trimmed the inner fender a little and had to do a quick hack job on the cross over pipe to clear the front shaft.
Was a loggers truck...
I got a 1983 Wanderlodge that is fully plumbed with copper, air brake/chassis system, fuel system and house water system. Has 300k miles, nothing has cracked yet and life hasn't been kind to it. I know about vibration, chaffing, hoses rubbing thru, yes I do.
The 82 6.2 heads have two little...
Got the engine in chassis today, was a bit of a struggle, rear cross over pipe looks to complicate the clutch linkage, other than that no scary revelations. Pictures later.
Friend gave me the turbo. Thought I might retro it to one of my 5.7 powered cars, then I came across the 82 GMC that the thread engine is from. Found the exhaust and intake components on ebay, had the exhaust coated, resealed the engine and now it's ready to put into the chassis. Found a full...