Can30Diesel
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So I was checking pick a part's website and I happened to find a 1 ton with a 7.3 listed. So I went on down there to take a look. Spare parts are always nice after all.
Turns out it was an old U Haul truck and the top of the engine was gone except the driver side head. "Crap" I figured, it had some kinda turbo on it and someone ripped the works off before I could get to it.
Well I looked around the truck anyhow, looking for anything interesting. I found the missing head in the cab, so I figured I'd check the back of the truck.
In the back was the rest of the motor. Bolts were all in coffee cans as were the injectors and glow plugs, but no turbo so it was just a N/A beast. The IP was also there and it was a stanadyne pump with the paint marks of a rebuild. It didn't look like it had been leaking at anything other than where the injector lines where at, otherwise it looked pretty clean.
The fuel coming out was clean and the pump turned nice and easy.
So I popped the top off to check for debris, it looked brand new.
I had a gift certificate from a dead motor I returned so I figured meh why not?
So I pull the lines off cause they were bent by whoever removed the pump and they like to charge for extras like that.
I carried the pump over to the desk and set it down.
"Whats that? A power steering pump?" the guy asked... I've been there far too many times so I played along..
"Well it is a pump, I'll give you three guesses"
After a few seconds of blank looks I added in ..
"Its a pump, its not a power steering pump and its from a ford. "
Still more blank looks.
"Ok, if a power steering pump is cheaper than an injector pump lets call it a power steering pump"
While the injector pump is listed on the board for about $70, they couldn't find it off the bat so they figured they'd just give it to me for the power steering pump price.
As a result I walked away with this pump for $25 which came off my gift certificate anyhow.
The truck had about 327,000K on it so its pretty close to about old enough to have seen at least a rebuild with a few thousand K on it, then what probably happened was they blew a head gasket, then decided to junk the truck.
That and the rebuilt front drive shaft I picked up out of the box of another truck over there are two of my nice little surprises from there recently!
Turns out it was an old U Haul truck and the top of the engine was gone except the driver side head. "Crap" I figured, it had some kinda turbo on it and someone ripped the works off before I could get to it.
Well I looked around the truck anyhow, looking for anything interesting. I found the missing head in the cab, so I figured I'd check the back of the truck.
In the back was the rest of the motor. Bolts were all in coffee cans as were the injectors and glow plugs, but no turbo so it was just a N/A beast. The IP was also there and it was a stanadyne pump with the paint marks of a rebuild. It didn't look like it had been leaking at anything other than where the injector lines where at, otherwise it looked pretty clean.
The fuel coming out was clean and the pump turned nice and easy.
So I popped the top off to check for debris, it looked brand new.
I had a gift certificate from a dead motor I returned so I figured meh why not?
So I pull the lines off cause they were bent by whoever removed the pump and they like to charge for extras like that.
I carried the pump over to the desk and set it down.
"Whats that? A power steering pump?" the guy asked... I've been there far too many times so I played along..
"Well it is a pump, I'll give you three guesses"
After a few seconds of blank looks I added in ..
"Its a pump, its not a power steering pump and its from a ford. "
Still more blank looks.
"Ok, if a power steering pump is cheaper than an injector pump lets call it a power steering pump"
While the injector pump is listed on the board for about $70, they couldn't find it off the bat so they figured they'd just give it to me for the power steering pump price.
As a result I walked away with this pump for $25 which came off my gift certificate anyhow.
The truck had about 327,000K on it so its pretty close to about old enough to have seen at least a rebuild with a few thousand K on it, then what probably happened was they blew a head gasket, then decided to junk the truck.
That and the rebuilt front drive shaft I picked up out of the box of another truck over there are two of my nice little surprises from there recently!