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Dang it looks really good. I'll have to go back and find that info. Where to find that spacer is my big question. l

I have the 1993 chevy version of that truck. Even though I got it from a farmer here in Oregon it has a little rust on the frame and the bed. It has the stock weenie tires on it. Yours look like at least 245's. Do you need a special spacer for the bigger tires or all new wheels with different...

That looks about right. Really hard to tell from a picture and I have nothing to compare to. Is that other bracket the cruise control bracket?

Nope! Never did find any. Btw, how do you like that junior moose pump?

My solution. Stay with '93 and older. hahaha. A lot less trouble to be sure.

An AC garage would have been nice. I could have fixed it myself if I had a puller with me big enough. The guy that did the work had a nice puller. I think he used a bit of sandpaper first and then the puller and it came right off. I built the engine and pretty much the rest of the vehicle...

Ahhh yes Miles City. Was visiting all day there last June against my will. The town where every other pickup has a massive bumper/grill guard on it. Two of the tow companies in town are also body shops. Was heading to WI and the stupid wheel bearing went south in my van. Drivers side front of...

Well that is some good news. I have seen plugged socks before. They slowly get something built up on them that closes them off. Brushed them off with a solvent and flushed it good and worked like new. :)

Hmm if that was the case then his supply pressure would start normal and go to zero. When the engine was running. In fact the effect would be similar to a clogged filter which is that the engine would start but have no power. Or would run and then stall if it was bad enough. Least that is how...

Nothing beats a compression test to let you gauge the health of the engine. White smoke out the exhaust should be the same as the mist test though. If you have mist and or white smoke then you know you have fuel in the cylinder and your no start problem is likely more related to glow plugs...

Ahh but do you have white smoke out the exhaust? You can crack an injector and get fuel and still not have white smoke. Without white smoke you got no potential for fire. If that is the case then for some reason the injection pump pressure is not overcoming the cracking pressure of the...

Well if you don't have at least white smoke then you don't have fuel. Dont miss the obvious here. Check the little wire to the top of the IP. The fuel solenoid has to open for fuel to get to the IP. I was out of state and driving down the road once when my connector broke off. Usually it just...

Oh yeah I have had those days and quite recently too. Unfortunately, unlike you guys I lack the bravery to post it here. :(

Good to know on the vbelt stuff. Not sure what you mean on the cracked mains. You would rebuild a block with cracked mains?

You said it has a new injector pump. Are you sure it was installed and timed correctly? Of course if you were getting fuel it would be smoking timed correctly or not. My vote is going to be on you getting the air all out. Jumper that lift pump and crack the clamps on the fuel lines before and...

Those parts even if cores would be worth that price. That block may be shot anyway but you wont know till you check the mains for cracks. I paid 600 for a truck a few years back just for the manual transmission. The engine had a bad knock that sounds like a broken piston skirt. I gingerly drove...

Biggest problem with ether is you have no real control over the timing. I just pulled some of the plugs out of my van to give it a checkup before our trip. I thought they were 60G plugs but they look nothing like the ones I just bough. The body where it says what they are is rusted. Looks like...

My kent moore timing set has the ability to time 3 ways it appears. It has the magnetic probe which needs room that the old 6.2 pulley system probably had plenty of. It has the clamp on injection line sensor and it has the luminosity probe. To use the magnetic sensor you need to know the offset...

So I guess my main question now is why set the timing with the engine revved up? Why not at idle at 600 rpm?

Yeah that link didn't work though I remember reading it. Ok I just found it and yeah I recollect that and also found the research article the graph is based on. When I get time I am going to try to reconstruct that page and host it on my website. It has good info and it is sad to see someone...