Project new tow rig, round two!

Dieselcrawler said:

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This is such a great shot!

F350camper said:

This is such a great shot!

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Except for Russ.........

FarmerFrank said:

Ahh. I should have paid more attention to the rally thread.

I was actually heading to Carlisle to meet Dunk. He's the (hopefully) proud owner of a mint bullnose core support.

I bet if crawler seen it in the back of the car I would have been ran off the road!

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I got two good clean cores hanging in my garage...

And yes, closer to home a silver tdi did it too

What's going on? You only have until November!

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laserjock said:

You got more than one tdi thumbs up? Not that it's undeserved but i find it kinda funny.

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Hey, not all TDI owners are truck-hating hippies

My TDI makes a great daily driver and complements my IDI quite well...fuel saved by driving the TDI means more money to spend on the truck

(On the other hand, I have a bit of hippie in me, so maybe I'm not the best example )

^ Haha I drive the tdi because it's gets twice the mileage of my truck. So when the wife ain't working, I drive it.

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Little(big) update. It appears that the little tow job I did at the rally may of hurt it. Been noticing a little more white/blue smoke out the tail pipe, and blow by getting worse. Decided to change oil and tear open the filter since I got a filtermag on it. Only 1200 miles on the oil. Not to pretty


So I did a compression test. Highest was 375. Lowest was 275. And a 280, 310. Think I found my blow by issue. Thinking I got it a little to hot during the rally rescue. Owell crap happens

So I dug out the 6.9 that I pulled from the truck for leaking coolant externally from head gaskets. Decided to do a comp test before anything. Engine has been sitting for 4 months wide open and drained of all fluids. 400 was lowest, 475 highest. The 400 cyl I shot a little atf down into it and cranked it over then retested. 475 out of that hole.

And now the parts started coming in. Ordered all gaskets and seals, along with a set of studs for the 6.9.

I'm sure the timing of all this wasn't in your plan., but it's great to hear that you have a motor on the shelf with those compression numbers.

Nope, was hoping to not have to touch under the hood for a while. But now I get a chance to clean it up a little more. Move batteries, redo firewall as I still have a little rubbing on up pipe, and just make it look better.

Batteries are going under the bed?

Pass frame rail under door. Making room for some random tubing under the hood

Dieselcrawler said:

Pass frame rail under door. Making room for some random tubing under the hood

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Are you going outboard of the frame? Any chance of clearance issues?

Please post pics!

Hoping outside frame, just like the e series is

Well. Guess I should update. Things happened. Blew up the idi. Truck has been sitting since August. Here's the latest....

And this....