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    Bad valve seat/guide

    That’s a good point I hadn’t considered. I’m going to clean the rods and order new lifters just to save myself the stress.
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    Bad valve seat/guide

    Returning to this thread to spitball some thoughts. Finally got my heads back, valve job with new guides. Before I start slapping this thing together, I want to return to the fact that I wasn’t getting oil coming out of two pushrods/rockers, and I think this is what ultimately lead to the...
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    Bad valve seat/guide

    We’ll this thing has a few bit of oil leaks, I’m going to start patching them up while I wait for the compression adapter to arrive and just chip away at this thing until it’s good to go.
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    Bad valve seat/guide

    Okay so I pulled valve covers. Gonna have to rig up a glow plug adaptor for the comp test. One thing I did notice is smoke coming from what looks to be the pushrod holes, but it could be passing the valves. Another thing is I noticed that two separate pushrods aren’t getting oil coming out of...
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    Bad valve seat/guide

    Compression leaking into the intake is a thought I had awhile ago. It runs good aside from some occasional low power issues which I attribute to some air intrusion I had been fighting. But once I kill the engine when it’s hot, it’ll let little hisses out almost like pressure is relieving so this...
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    Bad valve seat/guide

    Got a chuffing/hissing sound coming from the intake. Couple people on Facebook say it’s probably a bad seat. I’ve been driving this thing with that noise for a good while now so I’m curious on next steps and general input. I have a decent head from a previous engine I could probably throw on...
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    Regulator Return Routing

    I actually bought this pump and regulator second hand new in box for cheap but it came with no documents, so this just saves me labor and I can take some fittings back to the hardware store for some money back. Fuel gauge is already installed up under the hood until I can get one installed in...
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    Regulator Return Routing

    That wouldn’t be bad for the pump? I know we’re talking pretty low psi and I actually debated deadheading it earlier but decided against it cuz I was convinced it wouldn’t be good for the pump.
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    Regulator Return Routing

    Hadn’t thought of that. One guy in a FB group said he routed it back to the filler neck right so I was going to go that route but I like the idea of running only a foot or so of line back to the inlet a lot more.
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    Regulator Return Routing

    My Holley blue was pushing 13 PSI and through my timing off so bad, I didn’t even want to run the truck lol. It was that rough. I don’t have a timing setup so I can’t time it for 13 PSI, I need to pull down the PSI and I’ll fine tune it once I finally get a timing set up.
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    Regulator Return Routing

    I’m putting in a Holley blue, and need to install the regulator. While the regulator routing to the filter head is self explanatory, I’m having some trouble finding a way to route the return from the regulator. I’ve read that teeing into the existing factory return system can cause all sorts of...
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    Chasing down smokiness and lack of power

    I thought I gave an update on this whole debacle but it must not have posted. Hillbilly internet can be hit or miss. I wasn’t able to do any work on the truck this last weekend, worked an 18 hour shift over Friday night into Saturday afternoon and I was recovering from that all weekend lol. I’m...
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    Chasing down smokiness and lack of power

    You can buy/make pop testers online. I’m about to do so. There’s also plenty of write ups on how to tear down, clean and shim your injectors for good pop pressure. If you’re sitting on a stockpile of injectors like I am, it’s good to know how to tinker on them, in my opinion.
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    Chasing down smokiness and lack of power

    90CC, turned down 2 flats at the recommendation of Russ.
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    Chasing down smokiness and lack of power

    I can’t nail down what’s going on with my truck. I’ve got quite a bit of smokiness at throttle, it’s faint and white, you can really see it at night with headlights behind me. I’m also chasing down what I would describe as a ‘soft throttle.’ What I mean by this is, lower power than I feel I...
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