Brown Truck Under the Knife Project - Engine

[reklund]

Sean-

Your radiator hose will work, but you need to be sure it's only temporary. You WILL get a fine coating of engine oil in there, especially if you run a CDR. Radiator hose doesn't like engine oil at all, and will get mushy and leaky from the inside out over time.

Ryan

 

[6 Nebraska IDIs]

Hey Ryan! What's up! Long time since I've seen you on here!
I'm gonna be running a crank case evac system into the exhaust stream so the oil in the air stream wont be as big of an issue but yea its only temporary.

I'm currently installing my intercooler into my radiator support. HOLY GOD I had to cut allot out of the framing of that thing to fit the IC in there. I'm gonna have to completely re engineer this radiator support. I was hoping to be able to use the factory grill and stuff with this IC but its not gonna happen. Does anyone make a thin billet aluminum grill for the 80-86 trucks? I don't think I'll have a cable driven hood latch anymore. I'm trying to figure out what I'm going to do there right now. Still hoping to get this thing in there and going today.

 

[FordGuy100]

Yeah look up LMC truck, they have billet grills for like $100-150. I figured you could take the old grill, and take a cut off wheel and shave the inside plastic way up to front to clearance some. But billet grille might be the way we have to go.

What kind of intercooler are you installing?

 

[The Warden]

Yeah look up LMC truck, they have billet grills for like $100-150. I figured you could take the old grill, and take a cut off wheel and shave the inside plastic way up to front to clearance some. But billet grille might be the way we have to go.

I was considering doing the grille-shaving when I do my intercooler install, but even with doing that, I don't think there's enough space for an intercooler and an a/c condenser. In fact, I'm not 100% sure the billet grille would work properly. There's VERY little space available in front of the radiator on the '80-'86 front end. I'm looking at doing something different, when my time comes...details when that happens (although that's probably a few months in the future)...

 

[reklund]

Hey Ryan! What's up! Long time since I've seen you on here!
I'm gonna be running a crank case evac system into the exhaust stream so the oil in the air stream wont be as big of an issue but yea its only temporary.

I'm currently installing my intercooler into my radiator support. HOLY GOD I had to cut allot out of the framing of that thing to fit the IC in there. I'm gonna have to completely re engineer this radiator support. I was hoping to be able to use the factory grill and stuff with this IC but its not gonna happen. Does anyone make a thin billet aluminum grill for the 80-86 trucks? I don't think I'll have a cable driven hood latch anymore. I'm trying to figure out what I'm going to do there right now. Still hoping to get this thing in there and going today.

Sean-

I still lurk around here from time to time...been busy with the new baby in the house and all. You might have noticed my thread on "selling price". The new baby has revealed the main weakness in my truck: The lack of back doors! I may have to sell the old IDI to make room for the growing family...


I bet you had some clearance issues with that IC in your truck. I like the idea of keeping the factory grille look- with your connections up there I'd be you could get someone to water-jet cut you a new grille out of some aluminum sheet to mimic the look of the factory plastic setup. I think the ideal setup is to keep it as stock-looking as possible!

Ryan

 

[david85]

Almost sounds like its worth trying to make a new front clip from scratch considering the cost of just a grill. I could probably slap a nice one together out of aluminum square tubing and still keep the stock grill and OEM look.

Would sure open up a lot of possibilities building something from scratch...

 

[reklund]

Well? Does it run yet?

 

[6 Nebraska IDIs]

ROTFLMAO
It would have. But the whole thing came to a screeching halt at around 4pm when I went to install the flywheel and discovered that the retards at Ford gave me the wrong flywheel bolts. They gave me the ones for a 6.9 SMF and I'm installing a Valeo 12" DMF. I told them what I was doing and they still gave me the wrong ones. It really pissed me off when I discovered what they'd done. I easily could have had everything in there and working tonight. Oh well. Nothing ever goes right for me.
I start college again tomorrow so I probably wont get around to finishing it until next spring now.

 

[dyoung14]

ROTFLMAO
I start college again tomorrow so I probably wont get around to finishing it until next spring now.

Are you serious!!!!!!!!

 

[Agnem]

O M G!

Your killing us.

After all the hard work you put into this thing, I'd love to hear happy news that your pleased with the results. Any time I watch somebody put this much effort into something (especially myself), I'm scared to death that it won't turn out right. If we have to wait until spring, everybody's gonna be like no biggie.... cause the suspense will be gone.

 

[6 Nebraska IDIs]

Lol you guys. I was just a bit, well more than just a bit, depressed and pissed off about the whole flywheel bolt thing causing the whole day to go down the toilet.
I'm gonna go to Caterpillar and get some bolts from them for it since Ford has proven to be too incompetent to provide me with the correct parts.

One other little bit of interesting information, as you can see in my pictures of the rear crank seal there is a pin or dowl sticking out of the crank/flywheel flange. Apparently that pin was not a popular item because all our new flywheels do not have a hole for that pin. I couldn't pull it out, must have been made from tool steel or something. So I ground it off.

 

[Agnem]

Balance issue as a result? I can't see grinding it off. Surely there must be another solution, but it's moot now.

 

[david85]

Balance issue as a result? I can't see grinding it off. Surely there must be another solution, but it's moot now.

Don't think the balance will make any difference because there is no hole for where the dowel should line up with. In other words, its the same amount of material either way. There may be slight mass differences between the tool steel dowel and the casting of the flywheel, but I highly doubt it will matter.

Even if you do end up with a change, the misbalence would be fairly close to the axis of rotation, again, I don't think it will be a problem.

 

[Agnem]

Good point. I agree with that.

 

[Dsl_Dog_Treat]

O M G!

Your killing us.

After all the hard work you put into this thing, I'd love to hear happy news that your pleased with the results. Any time I watch somebody put this much effort into something (especially myself), I'm scared to death that it won't turn out right. If we have to wait until spring, everybody's gonna be like no biggie.... cause the suspense will be gone.

Yeah!

Ban him!!

Some of us feed off these things like a drug.