Build Family haulin'

[boots4]

How was the run this last weekend?

Clint

I didn't make it to the TSF run and our Barlow road adventure is next weekend. So sadly I've just been pounding pavement.

Interesting about your caliper brackets cracking. This is a different axle than the one you did your homebrew Toyota rear disc conversion on, correct?

Yes being a different axle. These are the caliper brackets for the 14bolt that I bought from Ruffstuff. I was thinking of sending some pics to them for R&D purposes.

 

[StevoJonesFJ60]

Those are some nice looking injectors, sorta makes me want to pick some up.

I'm sure they'll be great once you get them dialed in or swap the new turbo in.

 

[esh]

Hey, I handed off some body sheet metal cuts from wagongear to Gary. If you are going to the meeting tonight you might give him a call to remind him to bring them.

 

[boots4]

Thanks Ken. Hoping to get to my windshield frame rust some time this summer. I'll be at the meeting tonight so I PM Gary.

 

[boots4]

Update

Pump adjustments for the big injectors:

It just had too much smoke at all tuning attempts so I needed more air. I decided to try out the other compressor wheel I had for the H1 and see if that helped. I originally had this on and swapped it out for the smaller wheel. Since I already had it on I had all the parts I needed to re-install. The difference is in the inducer size so I needed to use its housing for it to fit. Bigger is on the left.

This is a 54mm inducer vs the 44mm inducer I had on it. The exducer is the same size (83mm if I remember correctly). I was hoping this would give me enough air to clean up the smoke since I definitely was throwing more fuel at it.

The swap was easy and I didn't need to remove the turbo from the engine or really need to take off the backing plate for the compressor housing but I did anyways to check on things.

Back to 4" intake using the cobra head to "clear" the oil filter. It just rests against the filter.

With it all back together and some kind of base tune we set off for a weekend of coast camping. We had to take two vehicles because of an extra rider plus it was good to have a back-up vehicle in case something happened to Dora. I made adjustments all weekend in small increments writing down what I did.

I found that I could turn the pump down too far and that while it would rev just fine in neutral, once I put it in gear pressing the accelerator did absolutely nothing. It got more and more doggy the closer I got to this condition. I reduced timing, advanced timing, in and out with the full power screw, fine adjustments on the AFC and star wheel. It just had too much smoke. My turbine housing was just too big to light fast enough to clean up the smoke so I really needed a smaller housing to start pumping air sooner with this kind of fuel. In the end I was faced with trying to build an exhaust manifold and new exhaust (I have 4" waiting to go on), and then try to tune that HE351VGT I want to run plus retune the IP all before the back country route we've got planned the third week of this month. Or, pay the core charge and put in my old injectors that I know I was able to run without as much smoke. So, I chose the easier route and threw in the old injectors and boxed up these big injectors until I can get the other turbo installed. Then I hope to be able to run these big injectors. I decided to leave the bigger inducer wheel on the current turbo and play with it.

So right now I ended up with my timing a little more advanced than before the big injector tuning and I'm pushing more with my full power screw. The bigger inducer is not as laggy as I remember and I do have more power. I am running a little hotter on EGT too so I don't have much more room to play with on the current turbo. I might take just a little more off the full power screw and might take a smidge down on the timing to reduce some clatter. On a throttle hit I can get a minor puff of black that cleans up as the turbo spools up.

Here are a couple of shots of our trip out and at the coast. It was the perfect weather, in the 70s with just a light breeze.

This is one of the places I stopped to make adjustments.

Some beach and coast shots.

 

[boots4]

Update cont.

So after the trip and after I got the old injectors back in I was wrapping up for the day and had a stud failure on a stud that holds on my injection pump. Guess I wasn't done like I had hoped. I had to take off the front gear cover which meant just about all my pulleys. The timing gear has holes in it so when I rotated it I could see the end of the stud. I was able to use a chisel and hammer to rotate the stud through the hole and get it out.

Stores where closed by now but I got lucky and found one bolt in all my bolt bins that would work. I'm going to get another stud to replace it but this at least got me back on the road.


Back to the driver rear wheel seal. I was leaking due to the pitted surface that my attempted repair failed so I researched and found a speedi sleeve at napa but also some info on a newer cartridge seal that could fit. The speedi sleeve was $50 and the cartridge was $28. I ended up buying both because I wanted to see if the cartridge seal would work first.

Application is for 99-2007 Silverado 2500HD or part number SKF 28554. Again this is for my 14bolt. I was interested in this because being a cartridge style seal the sealing surface is part of the seal itself and not the spindle. I placed it on my 1980's C&C 14 bolt spindle and it did fit.

Then I test fit it on my hub and it fit. The instructions inside the box did talk about needing the special seal installer so it wouldn't mess it up. When tapping it in I stayed on the very outer metal lip where the seal installer tool would put its pressure.

I drove it for a couple of days and guess what... leaking again. We had a family camping trip planned on the Barlow road (The Oregon trail stuff) that weekend and I still had the speedi sleeve kit so I burned through some more brake cleaner and got that installed.

Here's the sleeve installed on the spindle. It comes with an installation tool that basically looks like a metal cap but you have to cut out the center to get it to fit over the spindle and then use a piece of 3" exhaust tubing to tap it on with.

I was short on time so I didn't remove that back lip on the speedi sleeve that's used to give the installation tool something to tap against. The seal is a regular seal so nothing special about that. When I put the hub back on the spindle the seal was no where near that lip so I didn't worry about it. Got it all back together, ran the trail and even did some other wheeling the following day and guess what... it's leaking again So I'll have to get in there again to really find out what is going on but this is starting to get old.

Anyways, here's a couple pics from the Barlow trail. It was rainy but the family still had fun and I was glad to be out in the dirt again. This is one of the reasons my rocks. She had everything ready to go since we left right after my work, even the kid's outfit's were set aside ready to throw on and then buckle them in.

It was just us and another family in an FJ80 that set this up that went.

Got a chance to do some trail maintenance.

Scouted out some neat camping spots for next time.

Had a great time and got back without any issues. The next day I headed up to a trail tour by a local trail builder as part of the requirements to be able to help with new trail being built in the local area. Someone got a little clip of me hitting one of the sections.

Dora on Stick in the Nose Brown's Camp

Hoping to get time on the rear bumper and get that darn leak figured out before the trip this month.

 

[StevoJonesFJ60]

Its too bad those new injectors were too smokey, so when are you planning on switching over to the VGT?

When I was bumping the power up on my truck I upgraded to the 60mm compressor for the H1C. It barely hazed when I put the pedal all of the way down, that was with an aftermarket fuel pin and some minor pump tweaks.

Also great video, seeing your truck, and hearing that motor, out on the trails makes me want to get mine finished even more.

 

[boots4]

... so when are you planning on switching over to the VGT?

I want to get the third car working again as a DD (maintenance stuff) so I can then take Dora down and not have to worry about the not having the nice car in case the kids do something a band-aid won't cover. Then I won't be rushed to get Dora back on the road since my work schedule has changed to a M-F gig.

 

[Tapage]

Dude .. that vid Rocks .. ! sounds awesome and lot's of wheel spin ( powa ! ) me like it !

 

[gothodgie]

yea love the video... i can't wait to get the diesel in my 60 this fall...

 

[GLTHFJ60]

Those are some awesome pictures Mike, the scenery looks awesome

I love the sound of that diesel. I need to get one in my truck soon!

 

[StevoJonesFJ60]

Any updates?

 

[boots4]

Yeah... I've been putting off this update.

Dora bumped into another rig due to some circumstances of faulty parts and poorly marked roads. To exclude the long story at the moment everyone was fine (families were in both rigs) and it's mostly just surface damage. I've been collecting parts and getting the motivation to dive into it. Have a few other priorities at the moment so Dora's been sitting the last 2 1/2 months.

I'm replacing the tailgate, hatch, building a new rear bumper and minor body work on the rig that was hit. Dora will get a replacement hood, have some fender work up front, and a new front bumper. My rear 14bolt has some issues so I'll be re-working some stuff on it too before I can get her back on the road.

Got some house stuff I've been taking care of, getting wood supply ready for winter and just helped out with the club's event. Unfortunately the 3rd car is going to need a little more to return to duty so funding is spread out. Anyways, things will get worked out.

 

[FF LC FREAK]

Sweet. I can't wait for an update. Be sure to include your smiley face 14 bolt and the cool welding glasses we made up for you!

 

[Pacer]

Sorry for your troubles Boots, and thrilled to hear everyone is alright.
Sounds like you've got things in hand, warm happy family wins every time. Do Work!

 

[boots4]

I've been hosting my photos on Webshots and they were sold to Smile. Smiled decided to turn it into a subscription based service and will no longer host for free. Even if I decide to continue hosting my photo's there the path will probably get changed and all my photo's will have to be redone. Not happy about this since this thread is pic intense. That will be a lot of re-linking to do and feels quite daunting. I still have all the pics at home and I'd rather not have this thread die since I'm still updating so I'll have to figure something out.

 

[esh]

picasaweb works well for me.

pros: solid PC/linux/mac client to browse a lot of local images easily and do small edits, lets you control upload size to stretch that 1GB free web space

cons: linking requires a couple extra clicks (link to image -> image only -> size)

Also I don't expect Google to ever sell it.

 

[boots4]

Thanks Ken, I may end up converting over to another hosting site especially if I'm going to have to re-link anyways.

 

[jeffsclan]

Hey Boots, I was just going back through your thread to see how you set up your dual case shifter linkage. On page 14, I couldn't get the pics to load. So if you don't mind I will ask you. On the 203, do you rotate the shaft clockwise for low range and counter clockwise for high? I'm trying to help my son figure out his dual case setup similar to yours. Thanks

 

[boots4]

Hey Boots, I was just going back through your thread to see how you set up your dual case shifter linkage. On page 14, I couldn't get the pics to load. So if you don't mind I will ask you. On the 203, do you rotate the shaft clockwise for low range and counter clockwise for high? I'm trying to help my son figure out his dual case setup similar to yours. Thanks

Yeah I'm in the process right now of getting all these pics relinked and posted. Unfortunately it's slow and time consuming but I'm plugging away and actually hope to get pg 14 done by the end of this week.

For a quick answer on my 203 I rotate clockwise for L and counter-clockwise for H. In the middle of course is neutral. Please refer to post 223 on page 8 for 203 lever orientation (points down in second pic).