Gantry worked awesome, winch, not so much, brake didn't really hold it.

I did the winch because it was only 70 bucks and I thought I was being clever, but I guess I'll have to do a chainfall after all.

 

It's kind of a lie, but makes me feel good to see it truck like again,

 

It's kind of a lie, but makes me feel good to see it truck like again,

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Oh hell ya!!!!!

 

Super nice.

 

New to me cylinder head is ready to party pending the manifold being milled and ceramic coated.

I've figured out the difference between my stock 90cc injectors and a 160cc injector is a part called the intensifier piston, the 160cc injectors piston is 2.5mm shorter than the 90.

So I intend to pull the other side injectors, break them all down, surface grind the pistons .098 and replace the orings and whatnot.

For the most part though, this is going on hiatus while I build my lean to on my shop so I can have that done before winter.

 

Excellent!

 

Damn it, now you got me wanting to set my silvy cab on my super duty frame and get that project started! Lol
This is turning out pretty nice! Good job and great ingenuity!

 

I HATE THAT DAMN FUEL PUMP AND THOSE STUPID LINES WITH HOSE CLAMPS!!!!!! They never want to seal. I'd do E fuel just to get ride of that mess. Progress is looking awesome! Do the bigger CC injectors require a SD 7.3 injection pump? I think OBS was 15* while the SD is 17*? When I looked at injectors long ago, people stated you could not run SD injectors on an OBS pump.

 

I don't believe they do.

I figured this out by looking up a ton of part numbers for various International T444E applications, found one that was listed as "High Torque", has AC code injectors to my AA codes.

They sell these AC code injectors as a hot rod upgrade part, so I looked at the differences and only came up with that intensifier piston. Same diameter, same ID and OD, different length. Old as forum posts indicate people were making them back in like 04, before they decided they had to go with FORUM SPONSOR or die.

 

A roof over your head for the winter would be great. Maybe a little warmth too?

 

Another note on the Efuel deal is I'm not real sure why diesel guys use those 5' tall filters that hang down to the ground either, but on a work/camping truck, that set up doesn't work for me.

Then again idk why they do a lot of the shit they do other than someone else did and the forums told them to.




In terms of the lean to, this truck isn't even going to go in it lol, just my C10 and 4runner. Part of it will be for parts storage on some pallet racks, the rear section will be for sand blasting.

I have an oil burner to finish for inside the shop, the shop is not for vehicles though.

 

I haven't built my big one yet, the simple gravity feed one I did in my home garage had no issues at all warming the garage by 50 degrees or more.

This one I'll do as a forced air and should be able to get it up to 900 or so.

 

Holy fuck 900
🤣

 

Yup, that's going to be t-shirt and shorts weather.

 

It's a large, uninsulated shop, it will warm the area, but that's about it.

 

We have had a bunch of repeat breakages that have tied up the tool room and equipment back there, but I did manage to get the intensifier pistons cut down .098 so I should now have 160cc injectors.

Or I scrapped them lol.

It's worth the 250 dollar gamble to save 1400.

 

Drove down to the outer Cincinnati area, (didn't even have to charge my EV once lol), to check out this free service body.

Turns out it was fiberglass, who even knew that was a thing? Lol. Left it there, still had a fun trip.

 

MG pick-up?

 

I thought the same initially, turns out it was a Datsun 200? Never heard of it, neat though. Place had a bunch of Kei trucks, so I guess it was like a pre-cursor lol.

 

I forgot the old Datsuns looked like that. I didn't think MG ever made a truck, but wasn't positive.

 

Had some free time and available surface grinder so I fixed these up nice and flat, now to blast, coat, and install them.

 

Looks better than holding it on the belt sander for a few seconds.

 

Blasted the manifolds today, and the turbo outlet.

I'll powdercoat the Y and ceramic coat the manifolds.

 

Looks great!

 

I'm going to go ahead and spam up my own post with some repeats to show how far we've come here,

The part of the build where we go from, "You should scrap that you're stupid" to "OMG looks amazing how" is a fun part

All the blasting and coating is done through my personal business GunnMetal Customs

I'll be powder coating the valve covers and turbo outlet shortly.

 

Details? is that cerakote? how big of pieces can you do?

 

It's Cerakote.

I typically use my small oven, but I can go up to 4x4x8 in the big oven.

 

I don't think I've ever seen a manifold that rusted. Looks like it was washed daily with road chloride.

 

The head is the part that rusted through lol.

Apparently it's a thing on Powerstrokes. Typically I would just slap this all back together and call it good for twenty more years, but it's a good opportunity.

 

Wow. I can't even imagine how far down the grading scale of cast iron they had to go to get it to do that.

 

Powder for valve covers showed up, hopefully in between other projects can get them coated this weekend, or next. I'm also swapping my C10 to Holley EFI and have a 6.0 to wire an

I have the turbo rebuild kit on the way as well, need to get the EBPV plugged and new orings and I hope to get the cab set on mounts by Oct 1

 

I've had a cold for like a week, it's pretty crappy..

I did manage to mock up Efuel lines and mess with my C10 a bit today. Probably put in about 30 minutes then went home and took a two hour nap lol.

 

I've had a cold for like a week, it's pretty crappy..

I did manage to mock up Efuel lines and mess with my C10 a bit today. Probably put in about 30 minutes then went home and took a two hour nap lol.


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What kind of horsepower and torque will this get you?