TWT -- The Wrenching Thread (11 Viewers)

[stevezero]

Keep the current flowing, either direct, or alternating

 

[JohnVee]

One is hair raising. The other looks like hair.

 

[jfz80]

Ohm i god this is too much...

 

[JohnVee]

Says

 

[stevezero]

We need to ground this, before we start getting too much resistance

 

[mtweller]

The mods will let it go Faraday, but might lock it down tomorrow

 

[weejub]

. . . I wish I could un-see the last several posts . . .but I can't.

 

[Rice]

C watt I mean!!?? Aye Coulomba! It shunt but my head hertz! U guys R leaders with ample capacity to induce positive behavior but transform to become negative and repulsive. I volt the coppers charge you with battery and toss you in a cell with no potential for parole.

 

[CharlestonG8R]

There's a lot of dB in these powerful words.

 

[NCFJ]

I had some mounting plates made up. 6" square. Its set up for the box and two ground bus bars. If no bus bars it can be cut on black lines down to 4" x 6". Holes on top and bottom are to mount panel to support.

If anyone is interested in using this type of relay/fuse block and you need a mounting panel, let me know.

 

[pkniland]

View attachment 1428568 View attachment 1428569 View attachment 1428570 View attachment 1428571 Got a little more done on the drawer. Drawer built, slides work, put a temporary nylon pull until I decide what latch I want.

Locking T-Handle installed. Carpet and a more elegant solution for the inverter come next week.

 

[Rice]

Engine nerds like @Rice, @jfz80 and @mtweller (among others) will like this. Got the 6.0 torn down last night. Block is perfectly fine, no water jacket corrosion. I saw a few spots on the MLS head gaskets that could have been the leak, but it's hard to tell and the leak could have been inbetween the layers as well. Like a dope, I didn't get any close-up pictures of the block mating surface, but I did get pictures of a few cylinders showing the cross-hatch marks from the last time it was honed. I love diesel engines. Block is certified good to go

This thing has definitely been apart before, based on the EGR delete, updated stand pipes, updated oil feed and drain lines, newer glow plugs, etc. It's been a while though, found a broken injector connector, a few broken glow plug connectors, harness not restrained in the head in a few places, etc. If the head gaskets have been replaced once, I'm assuming it was years ago and was likely at a dealer, because all the right updated parts were used but they used head bolts instead of upgrading to ARP studs.

Other oddities, this engine has the later style IPR sensor on the injector oil rail, has the later style fuel regulator, later style injector oil rails, later style glow plugs and pistons, but has the early style HPOP. Doesn't make sense.

Either way, will get my parts order together, get these heads off to be reworked and send the injectors off for servicing.

Update?

 

[GLTHFJ60]

Update?

Many. Have been resisting the urge to fill this thread up with Ford wrenching I've started a build thread over on powerstroke.org to ask questions and whatnot. This truck is now affectionately called "Project Mayhem".

Project Mayhem - A Build Thread - Ford Powerstroke Diesel Forum

Shipped the heads up to ashevilleengine.com yesterday to be magnafluxed, pressure checked, flattened, "special" valve job and o-ring operation. Shipped the injectors up to warrendiesel.com last week to be rebuilt and testted with a modest upgrade to 155cc flow (up from 135cc stock). Injector upgrade requires a tuner, so picking up a tuner as well with a few tunes I picked out.

Got most of the parts in at this point. Research is ongoing, I need to check my lifters today. Need to pull the turbo apart to clean the VGT vanes and check the unison ring for cracking. Have two more orders to place. One for my new EGR delete and another for some hoses that I want to replace, MAYBE a new water pump.

Spent yesterday painting my new exhaust with VHT and my wheels. Wheels have been bugging me since I removed the wheel simulators. The wheel simulators (glorified metal hubcaps) allow water and mud to sit against the wheel. Between that and vibration, they rust. The wheels are steel, so a quick wire wheel and some enamel paint and we're looking good again.

Plan to paint the frame this week, get my final orders placed and finish cleaning the engine so I'm ready to assemble next week.

The brakes on this thing are just silly

SOOO much better now.

 

[NCFJ]

Custom Speed Hut gauges

 

[GLTHFJ60]

Just got word from the machine shop that my heads were cracked and need to be replaced

 

[roadstr6]

Says right on the bottle that it fixes cracked engine blocks. A cracked head or two should not be a problem. Money back guarantee!



Sorry to hear this, Johnny. ONSC has had a rash of bad engine luck lately. Here's hoping this is the last of it for a while.

 

[Rice]

Just got word from the machine shop that my heads were cracked and need to be replaced

Sorry man! You getting O-rings with your new heads?

 

[stevezero]

7.3 powerstroke parts

Have no clue if its good or matches whatcha got

 

[pkniland]

It's nice to finish a project every now and then

 

[S4Cruiser]

Just got word from the machine shop that my heads were cracked and need to be replaced

Dang sucks. You had figured this could be a possibility though. Nothing new heads won't fix...with some extra monies.