Thanks everyone! I've been off work for two weeks, and my goal is to drive this one when I head back on Monday, so I've had a fire lit under me to get it done!
Made good progress. Front clip all reinstalled, filled with oil, coolant, and reconnected all the wires.
And then the "fun" began. Attempting to splice a 6.9 harness into a completely hacked up 7.3 harness is no joke. Nothing original, nothing where it was supposed to be. I think I have an amalgamation of an 89, a 90, and an 86, based on my books wiring diagrams. It was a fiasco.
This was my day. ALLLLLLLL day. Two days actually, and it ran into the next morning about 2am.
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And from the PO's paperwork, it was in and out of the shop all the time for hard starting. I found more cut up wires in that harness than complete ones. Crumbling connectors, and about a third of the glow plugs weren't even connected in the loom! Some shop that was, they just kept throwing a new controller at it.
But that was fine with me, I wanted to do full manual anyway. So I ditched the controller completely, ran a hot wire with a big fuse to one side of the relay, jumped it to the top short leg, and have a switched ground on the bottom leg. Seems like it works well!
Kinda hard to see here, I forgot to take a pic before I mounted it. I moved it up on the passenger fender well to keep things a bit cleaner in the engine bay.
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Then, after everything was connected, I cranked. And cranked. And cranked.
Knowing what I do now, I wish I would have filled the fuel filter with diesel first, I think that took a lot of time. And now it's turning over too slow to fire off, so I got to waxing away the oxidized paint.
Whooowee! What a difference! I was shocked! I'll post better pics when the shop is cleaned up or I can drive him outside!
Front quarter done
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Whole truck
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Here's what I used. Awesome stuff!
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Next step, see if I can get it to fire up! Here's hoping! That, and an air filter, and I'm there!