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  1. nelstomlinson

    So what did you do with your truck today?

    We have'em here in the Interior, too. It's probably a degenerate, ****** thing.
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    Arctic Ambulance

    Not turbo'ed, unfortunately. I don't have the parts to turbo a van, so it'll likely stay that way. The idea isn't to make this another project, but to throw a mattress in there and go to Tangle Lakes and Chena Hotsprings and maybe drive the Denali Highway this coming summer. If I can put a...
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    Arctic Ambulance

    I guess that's one way to smelt lead.
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    Arctic Ambulance

    When I went to pick it up, the batteries were weak, and so he pulled it into his shop and we set about trying to open the battery drawer. Eventually we figured out the slides were rusted solid - probably the only rust on it! So we pried and struggled and got the drawer to roll out, and put in...
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    Arctic Ambulance

    I just bought my first van, a '94 E-350 ambulance. It's been a work truck for a local contractor for years, so it has few miles and probably lots of idling hours on the engine. Seems to be in fair shape, over all. It'll become a little RV for us. Apparently he bought it in the Lower 48 and...
  6. nelstomlinson

    So what did you do with your truck today?

    The relays can also make your headlights just a bit brighter, if you use adequate wire.
  7. nelstomlinson

    Road-side repair set

    My advice has always been to carry whatever parts you might change on the roadside, and the tools to do that.
  8. nelstomlinson

    Changing a head gasket in the brown truck.

    So I got the head off. Thank God there are signs that the gasket was bad! I had been afraid it would be a cracked head. That's the number 1 cylinder in the closeup. We can see some rust. The piston was noticeably cleaner in that cylinder, too. The gasket had definitely deteriorated. That's...
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    Changing a head gasket in the brown truck.

    That's an old Lincoln SA250 with the little Perkins diesel. I think I recall it'll do over 300A @ 20% duty cycle. Aluminum windings, not the high quality copper they put in the older ones.
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    Doomsday Dually Project

    I bought a pop tester for my Mercedes, but I haven't built an adapter for the IDI injectors yet. Come to think of it, I haven't even checked to see that they're different, and need an adapter!
  11. nelstomlinson

    Changing a head gasket in the brown truck.

    That's the track loader that runs, but needs work. The other one doesn't run...yet. Probably just needs a new injector pump, someday. I have way too many projects.
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    Changing a head gasket in the brown truck.

    I have way too many projects and I'm not good at finishing any of them. I need to get some completed, and that means not letting them grow and grow. I did complete a couple of projects this summer. I cut down an axle and put it under a light plant, and cut down another trailer axle and built a...
  13. nelstomlinson

    So what did you do with your truck today?

    Found a refurbished one on fleabay. I'll give it a try, I have some serious crimping coming up.
  14. nelstomlinson

    Changing a head gasket in the brown truck.

    It was running great until it started spewing, and it seems likely it'll run great when it goes back together. I figure if I get another six months to a year out of it I'll be golden, and it may last longer than that, who knows.
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    Changing a head gasket in the brown truck.

    I'm going to do the minimum to get it back on the road quickly. I need it running, and the leaks don't bother me. That rear main is already more than I really should do, but it won't take long. Edited to add: As soon as this is out of the shop it goes back to being my daily driver. Then I can...
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    Changing a head gasket in the brown truck.

    Another thing I just had to do was fix the connector for the engine wiring harness. It had been replaced with not one, but TWO wads of but splices. I labeled the wires 1 through 8, then A&B for the two I found later, and got an 8 pin Deutsch connector pair. My son put the Deutsch connectors on...
  17. nelstomlinson

    Changing a head gasket in the brown truck.

    So I will change the valve cover gaskets while I'm in there. I'm going to try to do a bare minimum of those "while I'm in there" things, because that's how these projects stretch out until they never finish. One thing I've already done, though, is I took off the nasty old sound proofing from the...
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    Changing a head gasket in the brown truck.

    This engine has been leaking like a sieve and I think some of it was coming from the valve covers. Here's the port side, aft: And here's the starboard side, aft:
  19. nelstomlinson

    Changing a head gasket in the brown truck.

    About a year ago the '89 crew cab started spewing coolant out the front, right, upper corner of the engine. I finally got it into the shop this winter and have pulled the engine. I'm middlin' sure the problem is the head gasket - the leak was kinda visible below the exhaust manifold. I started...
  20. nelstomlinson

    So what did you do with your truck today?

    Tell us about the hydraulic crimper?
  21. nelstomlinson

    So what did you do with your truck today?

    Always put it on the hood, never put it on the top or the bumper.
  22. nelstomlinson

    Doomsday Dually Project

    I think that the copper coating is to mark which end goes up. It isn't intended as a wear layer. I'll try to dig up the IH manual and re-read that section.
  23. nelstomlinson

    So what did you do with your truck today?

    What are you using for mounts? That's always been a hangup, trying to find something that let's me mount and aim the lights.
  24. nelstomlinson

    So what did you do with your truck today?

    Yeah, inquiring minds want to know! I'm still on the lookout for more and brighter.
  25. nelstomlinson

    Cup holders

    With those flotation devices, she'll never drown. Looks as if those cupholders can handle the biggest Big Gulp, too!

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