Popping in the intake is due to a lifter bleeding down.
The miss and blue smoke can be a bad injector.
On a cold engine, an injector that Peeing a stream will not fire until there is some heat in the engine.
If your pop pressure on the injectors has fallen off too far it will cause issues...
Here are some useful part numbers I was aske for recently.
They may duplicate previous posts, but then maybe not.
The filter bypass is #25014006
Cooler bypass is #25161285
The plug for the Cooler bore (goes on top and has the little hole) is
#14066310
The late squirt nozzles are a...
Well the summer has come to a close and the DaHoooley's new engine is complete and sitting on the stand in the shop.
The weather has closed in and the rains are here, so working outside is going to be sketchy from now on.
The kid's motorhome is still in the shop buildings only large stall so I...
Donors out here in the Nw are very spendy as we dont have Salt and unless the thing is a total trash heap or Burned to a crisp, they go for big money.
Now If I can get a aftermarket controller and harness to run the engine and the allison I can probably scare up an engine and tranny from an...
Just snooping at this time to see whats out there to work with.
It should not be a really tough thing to get a stand alone me thinks, just finding out who has it.
The early Dmax's ran the 4L80 so this should be quite viable.
The relatively light weight of the K5 should be no sweat for the...
OK here it is.
I am considering a Dmax (LB7 or LBZ) swap into my K5 Blazer project.
I do not (read can't afford) want to buy a complete truck to scrounge all the wiring and such.
I want to set this up with a 4L80E and run the engine at the lower HP setting that was used in the Vans.
I dont...