Popped the windshield today to see what trouble I've inherited. Doesn't see too bad to be honest . Just the usual rust in the corners.
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Super cool red TEQ roll Russ. Looks to be vinyl? Have never seen one before. So no idea of its origin?
Naturally aspirated diesels will loose performance as the elevation increases, it is just the nature of the beast. I had a 7.3 IDI that would perform much better at sea level than it did at 6K+ but did really good but smoked. On I-80 across Wyoming I could pass the semis on the grades but they passed me going down hill and complained that my truck smoked. It originally had a high altitude injector pump and when it needed to be replaced I asked for the HO version and had to advance the timing as far as I could and live with it smoking like an F4 Fantom jet.I'm at 4000', but it's still a big jump. I camped halfway up black bear which helped, but definitely pushed the bike uphill a lot of the time at higher elevations. Of course I was also lacking other important things like skill and fitness, on top of the no oxygen part
Link for posterity?Bought a new tool and greased up all my zerks. Tossed the crappy, slimy and sometimes unreliable hand grease gun in the trash, damn thing leaked bad. This thing makes quick work of a nasty chore!
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I would call Vintage Air tech support before tearing all that out for some direction.I've been trying to get some heat from my heater core, before it gets cold and I need it. I have a Vintage Air heater/AC. I thought I had an air bubble in my heater core. I bought a dripless funnel and set my 40 on ramps and ran it until hot. Got some burps, but no heat. I borrowed a snap on vacuum system. I drained the radiator, created a vacuum in the cooling system and then filled it. After the vacuum dropped off, I closed the pickup valve and created a vacuum two more times. Still no heat. I disconnected the hosed out of the water pump and intake manifold and held the garden hose on the intake hose. The hose swollen, but no water out the outtake. Rotated the valve manually and tried again. Still no pass through water. I also did both valve setting on the output hose....still nothing. I guess I need to yard out the condenser to test it some more. Ugh, I'm not looking forward to pulling that.
BTW, I have a GM setup, so everything is chevy.