The canal boat (3 Viewers)

[Ragnaroek]

Wow, those cracks look nasty. I've seen them on a few 80s, but all of them had a hard life on gravel roads or working in forestry.


Radiator looks nice, though.

 

[scottryana]

Wow, those cracks look nasty. I've seen them on a few 80s, but all of them had a hard life on gravel roads or working in forestry.


Radiator looks nice, though.

His truck has had a rough life, he has had nothing but problems with it seemingly.

 

[Dusten]

His truck has had a rough life, he has had nothing but problems with it seemingly.

Nothing that is surprising for a 33 year old vehicle from another country


And I bet if more people looked, they'd see cracks.

Frame cracks on vehicles with a steering box and panhard/trac bar mount in the same spot are very common.

Look at dodge trucks.

 

[Dusten]

Also little update from yesterday.

Somehow I thought I'd replaced my radiator hoses previous. Curse of owning so many cars. Well I reviewed my maintenance logs and low and behold I hadn't. So I ordered a set.

 

[Dusten]

More work today
Pulled the valve cover. Intake tube. Timing cover. Timing belt. Upper timing pulley. Water pump.

I installed the new pump. Put the timing belt back together. Installed the tie rods on the rear of the axle.


Tomorrow I'm going to check the valves and see if I need to order shims.
I'm going to prime and paint the valve cover.

 

[mudgudgeon]

More work today
Pulled the valve cover. Intake tube. Timing cover. Timing belt. Upper timing pulley. Water pump.

I installed the new pump. Put the timing belt back together. Installed the tie rods on the rear of the axle.


Tomorrow I'm going to check the valves and see if I need to order shims.
I'm going to prime and paint the valve cover.

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Did you replace that spring on the timing belt idler pulley?

They're a known failure item and a sub $20 part.

 

[Dusten]

Did you replace that spring on the timing belt idler pulley?

They're a known failure item and a sub $20 part.

It's new. The timing belts only got 40k km

 

[Dusten]

Checked clearances today

I need to go order 4 shims and drop em in.


I pulled the turbo pipe for the valves. I decided to smooth the casting flaws and paint it.

I'm going to paint it and aluminum silver color.
I'm going to do the valve cover in a graphite.

But I want to see if I can find this decal

 

[Dusten]

 

[MrMikeyG]

Thanks for posting that picture.
I paid full dealership beans for my radiator. I wanted to stand at the parts counter and inspect it for damage while a person was standing there just in case.

 

[Dusten]

Thanks for posting that picture.
I paid full dealership beans for my radiator. I wanted to stand at the parts counter and inspect it for damage while a person was standing there just in case.

Same. Local dealer knows me though because I'm always ordering weird parts

Diesel fuel filters and such

 

[Dusten]

I've been struggling to get motivated to finish this.

Funny thing is, I needed it last weekend for some sad stuff and since it wasn't done I rented a gls63 AMG off turo.

I called in tonight at work and finished it

All told i
Verified valve clearance
Installed 5 new shims
Replaced the water pump
Replaced the radiator
Replaced the upper and lower radiator hoses
Replaced all 4 tie rod ends
Cleaned up some engine bay stuff
Replaced the grill with the correct version. This made a huge difference the old grill never fit right.

 

[Dusten]

Also I replaced the hood struts. It's amazing how little weight the old ones would support. The new ones are actually an effort to close. The old ones, if I bumped the hood, they'd fall.