PwrSmoke
Full Access Member
Well, junk, I think you are going to see some meaningful improvements in the way your truck runs and drives. Let's hope that also includes a significant reduction in oil consumption.
Happy to see the IP and Injectors worked out for you. As long as you have a good set of plugs in there and two good batteries it should start just fine. My rebuilt engine started at the first turn of the key all last winter after I changed the plugs and put two new batteries inI haven't checked to make sure the injectors sealed up, but did check all the fuel connections and they look good. I drove it around a couple miles today. Seems to run fine. Idle has come up also. It now idles around 600 or so RPM versus idling around 400 RPM. Initially this morning when you would tromp the footfeed when it came back to idle it would really get low and want to die. Now after driving it it seems to be acting fine. One big difference I've noticed is before the truck always smelled like raw diesel now it seemed to have just a diesel exhaust smell to it. I was still getting some blue smoke this morning and am hoping that will clean up after driving it around and hopefully getting the rings seated up again.
Overall I'm happy. We'll see how it starts cold. I had it in the heated shop last night so it started fine this morning. We'll see how it does later after sitting outside in 30-40 degree weather. It should start fine, but as winter approaches I get worried.