Should be starting this coming weekend. Got the inner fenders primed tonight. Should get one coat of green on them tonight and one in the morning. Just the battery trays after that.
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My 93 project truck-Alpine Green
- Thread starter bk95td
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Got a few more pics.The inner fenders are painted and back on. I'm waiting for paint to dry to put the battery trays back in. Looking like it may be tomorrow when it comes back to life. I do have a pretty good excuse for not getting it done if you've seen the must have been good no coal thread.
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07HDClassic
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That is by far one of the nicest 6.5s that I have scene. Great job on the build
Got some more pics. Almost had it running today but ran out of time. It was puffing smoke and firing. A little more air in it yet. Tomorrow for shure.:thumbsup: I got the k47 air box/cleaner on and battery trays and batteries in. I tied the top posts together with a couple of battery cables I got at the local Fleet Farm. They are made from 2/0 welding cable. I also picked up a couple short cables for grounds from engine to frame and engine to firewall. The cable running from the side post to the starter is one I had custom made for my 91 6.2. It's 2/0 also.
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SmithvilleD
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VERY nice!
Matt Bachand
Depends on the 6.5
Its the attention to detail that you did to the accessories, and top half of the engine that make it look so damn good. It takes patience to do the clean/prep/paint on every part, every stage of the way. But it looks fantastic.
Good luck on the fireup.
Good luck on the fireup.
Since the color seems to be popular here is a compaireson. These are some pics of my 95 LD that I finished this spring. At the time I thought it looked pretty good. After doing this one with the alpine green all the rest of my engines will be alpine green when they go in.
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Got it started today after many attempts. It ran awful for quite a while.:sad: The raw fuel smoke was so thick in my shop that you couldn't see your hand in front of your face. It spit a bunch of acorn shells and insulation out the tailpipes.):h It smoothed out some after holding at 1500 rpm for 10 minuites or so. Still has a miss:sad: A rear brake line blew out when I backed it up so the exhaust was outside. Tach quit working after 20 minuites of running. Also seemed to be charging rather hard. I'd guess the alternater is as good as dead.All and all ,not the best day.
I had dumped about 4 gallons of fresh fuel and a bunch of power service in with the less than 10 gallons of old fuel that was in it. I don't think the fuel is causing the miss. At this time I'm thinking that the new rings in #7 cylinder are not seated. As said ,the miss got better.maybe it will be fine with some more running time.
Any thoughts? I know I rolled the dice on this one because of the less than perfect cylinder. Just not ready to give up just yet. I did just get a new compression tester a few weeks ago, so after running some more if it doesn't clear up it'll be getting tested.
I had dumped about 4 gallons of fresh fuel and a bunch of power service in with the less than 10 gallons of old fuel that was in it. I don't think the fuel is causing the miss. At this time I'm thinking that the new rings in #7 cylinder are not seated. As said ,the miss got better.maybe it will be fine with some more running time.
Any thoughts? I know I rolled the dice on this one because of the less than perfect cylinder. Just not ready to give up just yet. I did just get a new compression tester a few weeks ago, so after running some more if it doesn't clear up it'll be getting tested.
DieselSlug
Well-Known Member
Nice job!!, i got rushed at the end of mine. So i didnt clean the intake stuff and tell yah the truth made it look pretty crappy after the nice yellow paint job. But winter was coming fast and my car needed to be put in the garage.
SmithvilleD
Active Member
That is the deal w/ making them look sharp - once you start detailing things, anything dirty/oxidized really sticks out & hurts the overall appearance. Then soon as the engine bay looks tiptop, the rest of the truck looks lesser & so the abrasive blasting/powdercoating/painting continues.
There's also gosh-a-plenty plumbing & other stuff on the top of this engine that makes it look sorta "busy" even when everything's spiffed up & new looking.
Duplicolor's aerosol can Bedliner turned out to be a good way of making the original fan shroud & airbox look good. No amount of cleaning seems to get that shroud material back to looking new; but with good cleaning/prep, the bedliner material seems to stick well & it's texture hides some of the scratches/gouges the shrouds tend to collect over the years.
Crankme69
New Member
Any luck getting them rings to seat yet?
No. I haven't had time to run more yet because of christmas things and 12" of very heavy wet snow to plow:nonod:. I need to fix the blown brake line also
,so I can stop it when I move it outside to run.[shop is on a hill] I have done some cleaning and shining and put the hood back on[slight vote of confidence for the engine].More snow to plow yet today.:mad2:Just a word on that suspect cylinder. I used a block in my old truck that had collected water in one cylinder. It had a pretty good divit in it, about the size of the end of your finger, but it worked fine. I didn't even notice that much oil consumption. But I only ran it for 4200 miles. It was a junkyard pull out and the crank was damaged in the wreck, causing it to break prematurely. I wouldn't be too worried about the rust damage in that hole, especially for a cheap beater truck. Good luck finding the miss.
Yea, The miss was there before I pulled the engine. It was one of the reasons that I pulled the engine. When I found the rust in #7 cyl I assumed it was the cause of the miss because it would have damaged the rings scraping the rust off. It was obvious so I figured it had to be the cause. I didn't look the valves over real close when they were out. Only put new seals on. The other cylinder walls looked perfect. No ridge at all with 209,000 miles. If it doesn't smooth out from running some more ,I will replace all the fuel with fresh to be shure it's not a old fuel problem. Then a compression test.
ak diesel driver
6.5 driver
not a bad looking truck