So we made the maiden voyage today. It was not without its problems.
It does go. It does stop (poorly). The tcase is still a mess. I thought I had it fixed and now all I have is 4 hi I think. It's amazing the difference the 3.55 gears made. I can't get it out of low gear most of the time. Before I could get from second almost to third in the driveway. No rollover noise with trans in neutral but it sure growls in gear lugging around. Guess that's to be expected.
Brakes are terrible. I don't know if the lines need bled or if the booster is bad but they are really spongy. This is why we do ultra low speed shakedown runs right?
So a lot of things to sort out.
First thing up was the fuel pressure. What I didn't show was after turning around and coming back up the drive way it died right before the garage. Hopped out, looked, fuel pump was running but very quiet and no fuel pressure. Hmm. That will do it. I think it loosened the fitting going into the pump and it was sucking air. It was foaming out the schrader valve. I'm not sure how it was running at all. I think I have that remedied after all afternoon looking for it. I still don't have the fuel pressure I had before but good clean fuel out of the schrader valve now. I also in the process got my fuel selector valve to jive with the switch. I had them backwards before. I'll need to tidy that up again. After several diesel showers, I wasn't super careful about packaging them up. But it switches between tanks without a hiccup now.
I need to get my gauges in next. My factory oil pressure gauge is reading really high. I think the sender is not liking the way it's mounted. May not be grounded real well now. I am strongly considering the glow plug defeat mod again. I started it several times today with the gps unhooked even after setting for a couple hours. Barely cranked over and off she went without them.
So that's probably it for today. I'm beat and smell horrible of fuel.
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It does go. It does stop (poorly). The tcase is still a mess. I thought I had it fixed and now all I have is 4 hi I think. It's amazing the difference the 3.55 gears made. I can't get it out of low gear most of the time. Before I could get from second almost to third in the driveway. No rollover noise with trans in neutral but it sure growls in gear lugging around. Guess that's to be expected.
Brakes are terrible. I don't know if the lines need bled or if the booster is bad but they are really spongy. This is why we do ultra low speed shakedown runs right?
So a lot of things to sort out.
First thing up was the fuel pressure. What I didn't show was after turning around and coming back up the drive way it died right before the garage. Hopped out, looked, fuel pump was running but very quiet and no fuel pressure. Hmm. That will do it. I think it loosened the fitting going into the pump and it was sucking air. It was foaming out the schrader valve. I'm not sure how it was running at all. I think I have that remedied after all afternoon looking for it. I still don't have the fuel pressure I had before but good clean fuel out of the schrader valve now. I also in the process got my fuel selector valve to jive with the switch. I had them backwards before. I'll need to tidy that up again. After several diesel showers, I wasn't super careful about packaging them up. But it switches between tanks without a hiccup now.
I need to get my gauges in next. My factory oil pressure gauge is reading really high. I think the sender is not liking the way it's mounted. May not be grounded real well now. I am strongly considering the glow plug defeat mod again. I started it several times today with the gps unhooked even after setting for a couple hours. Barely cranked over and off she went without them.
So that's probably it for today. I'm beat and smell horrible of fuel.
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