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DaHoooley, back from the dead as a 6.2 truck. The Phoenix rises

Roof all well now.

Hired a couple "Stud Muffin" roofers to fix the Beotch.

We got after it on Tuesday morning at around 8:30 and flew into it.

Ended up ripping off the entire section and checking things out real well. Made some minor repairs on the sheeting as it was not really done well in the valley areas.

No damage to the structure at all, just the little spot in the sheetrock was all.

The boys did a great job.

They finished up at 3 am Wed Morning. OMG an all nighter.

By 11 am the weather had turned totally ugly with 50 MPH winds and torrential rains.

Best part was that we got it all done while the weather was fairly warm (50's) and dry with some sun too.

NO LEAKS so far.

Missy is a happy camper.


No real change in the DaHoooley Program to date. Just trying to get ready for winter.

Turning cold now and need to get a couple things squared away today before the tempsdrop into the low 20's tonight.

Need to check the antifreeze on the K5 just to be sure. I am fairly sure its fine BUTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT I dont need any suprizes.

Later troops

Missy
 
UPDATE
Got a little bit of work done this afternoon on the engine. Rechecked a couple things and then installed the new brass soft plugs.

Hoping to get the short block together Sunday.

After that its going to take a while to get much farther as I need to scare up a set of heads.

Going to use a fresh set of Clearwater heads and go that way.

With any luck, this go round should stick.

More as it happens.

Missy
 
Stud Muffin....... you crack me up.

There are a lot of darn parts in these old heaps and when one goes to shuffling engines in and out, the task gets duanting real quick. Seems like you've been to that Rodeo right? I know I have.

As always, best of luck and keep us posted.
 
Yup, Stud Muffin As in young fellows with far more go getum than me.

This engine build is not any different than the previous one, just this time its not nearly as much fun.

The only issue that got in the way was the Oil pan thing. With that out of the way this should be no different than the other build.

The only little difference is the oil supply line for the turbo has to come from the back of the engine on this one.

I may tap into the oil source where the OPS goes in. Possibly pipe it so that I can use the original oil feed line to the turbo ??????

Dont really want to string a line all the way up past the exhaust manifold and across the engine.

It will be quite easy to swap out the fitting that the OPS goes into and install a "T" fitting there instead.

Whatever I do, I want it to be easy to get the OPS plugged in using the original wiring harness.

Just not sure as yet.

The one good thing on this build is that everything is clean and all bagged up.
I bagged all the internal and external items and labled them as they cam out/off

Just grab a bag of parts as I need them.

I have never liked tossing everything into a bucket then trying to figure it all out some months later.

On a long term "DOWN" like this one, I even made some notes on a note pad on a few things.

Just makes it very easy to get things back quickly with minimal bother.

Just wished that I had DaHoooley in a warm shop, or at least one that I could close the doors and keep the weather out.

Sucker is sitting out now, covered with needles off the fir trees , AAAAAAARRRRRRGGGHHH


Missy
 
Turbo oil

Here what I did for my 6.2 turbo oil...

You'll need a 36" line as a 'comfortable' length. I chose -6 teflon, straight to 90* ends. Then used a 90* 1/8 NPT adapter threaded into the OEM 6.5T brass OPS fitting.

I cheated and chucked the brass thingie into my 4 jaw lathe as I wanted to offset the 1/8 fitting away from the 1/4 OPS hole, but one could do the same thing with a properly set up drill press.

It works good. I saw little to no difference in the oil pressure reading.

turbo oil.jpgturbo oil2.jpg
 
Thats a great modification.

I have a couple extra of those fittings. Will make the mods to one of my extras.

I never cared for the way Banks does it, running the line up around the exhaust manifold.

Thanks for sharring the piccy.

I can set one up in the Bridgeport and do the offset thing.

Could the hole in the main stem be drilled right out through the top of the fitting ???


Robyn
 
Could the hole in the main stem be drilled right out through the top of the fitting ???

I wouldn't. The dia and DEPTH needed for the 1/8NPT tap will claim too many threads of the intersecting 1/4 OPS thread, IMO... If the tap didn't need such a deep hole, then yeah it'd work out. There is plenty of meat opposite of the 1/4 OPS thread.

The drill dia. of the brass stem from where it threads into the engine block (the main passage) is only 1/8" +/- a few.
 
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