Fixed a few things today.
Found a m8x1.0 nut for the wiper motor to linkage. Wipers work now.
Added my depo clear corner makers. I wanted to get inspected and have normal functioning lights. I’ve got new orange turn signals by depo and reproduction headlight bezels coming too. I’ll do those next week.
Added new grounds. I went from the wiper motor to the chassis ground on the engine, and went from the main chassis ground at the rear by the spare tire to the hatch hinge bolt. This might be overkill, but when I first bought the truck and drove it home; it popped the EFI fuse with no warning. Over kill on grounds is one way to prevent it.
I trimmed my patch panel for the cut out that one of the many PO’s put into the trunk floor. Unsure if I’m going to put this oem panel in, or get a stainless panel and screw it in.
I took it up to 80 mph on a 40 mile round trip down a country road.
The temp climbed a little bit. It got a bit above 3/4. When I got home, I hit it with the IR temp gun and it was at 208*. It started climbing, I backed off and took it to 60 mph and it instantly started coming down.
This engine was a complete basket case when we first started working on it. Radiator had failed from main circuit to trans cooler and the truck was empty of coolant. It was crusty. Lots of galvanic cell corrosion.
I had flushed it a little bit with water and flush over 1.5 years ago, and it drove fine the 50ish miles to get the trans swapped and then it sat with just water in it for a long time.
I easily put 20 gallons of water through it today. I started with just the drain on the radiator, and it was pretty murky. Then I got the block drain off as one piece; it didn’t want to unwind in place.
The worst of the flushing came from the block drain and I made a complete mess of the garage.
I’m hoping that the overheating at speed was all just junk in the lock and possible air trapped in it.
