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Fuel System redone

Yeah, if you were getting leakage around the cheap CKO valve faces/seats and past the stems also, that could account hard/no cold starts and excessive smoking due to way off air/fuel ratios and the more they wore and the worse it got, the more apparent it would become with tunes that had very different fueling/timing than stock, too.
 
Paveltolz said:
Valve stems showed excessive wear but there was no scaring or other damage to the Rockers. Previously noted, it is surmised that the non-OEM/CKO valve springs were unable to hold the valves shut and air was pushing past the seats too.
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This leads me to believe this is the reason Twisted Steel Performance has his own springs to keep the valves shut.
 
The whole Chyna production experiment has been a bad one. Need to bring all that production back onshore.

I’ve read that Chyna can’t build a turbofan jet engine that lasts more than 30 days before it has to be torn down. So in a war with Chyna it’s just a war of attrition before the U.S. would have air superiority. I assume the rest of their military equipment is junk too. The only advantage they’d have is headcount.
 
Headcount: I heard say that if a million died per day, in 20 years you wouldn't have kept up with their birth rate and would still be facing the same amount. Of course, that's general population but....

On a more Six-Five theme...
300+ miles on the truck and its running great. Only issues are the external ones. From sitting around, some stuff needs addressing once I get it home (brake light out, front diff. actuator, major cleaning....).
I have some medical stuff taking priority for time in April and later in May so the Frau and I will fly up to collect it around 2 May and I can give my own reports.
Really appreciate ya'll hanging out for the ride with this long thread. Hope someone got something useful out of it.
 
After a day’s delay because of flight cancelation I arrived in Spokane last night and got to Wenatchee WA by bus this afternoon. Bill met me there and as the bus pulled around the corner I saw the truck parked along side the street and I started to grin. I handed me the keys and it lit off with no smoke. Idles with a smooth diesely 6.5 happy rattle, accurately crisply with no smoke. Accelerates HARD with no smoke. Accelerates gently from 55 to 65 mph, up grades with no downshift and no smoke. One thing that didn’t get fixed is it still can’t pass a Dairy Queen without stopping. What can I say, I got a sweet tooth.

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No, no real issues motor wise. Now it just rolls down the road like it should. Which it hasn’t done that in years. Lesson reinforced. If you don’t take time to do it right the first time, you’ll certainly be forced to take time to fix it and make it right later.

So very thankful to Bill for doing the work to make it right. Thank you all for hanging in there with suggestions, encouragement, general banter and friendship. Much needed and greatly appreciated.
 
Paveltolz said:
Truck's been running stupid for a long time. Hard to start on cool mornings and, if it doesn't catch and run, it won't start on the subsequent tries unless you A. Crank for an eternity (not good for starter) or B. let it sit for about a half-hour or more and the smoke at start up is worse than 'normal.'
Real bad grey smoke at idle on even warm days after starting. Doesn't go away for quite a while. Clatter and rattler constant after warm up.
IP won't hold timing at all.

Broad brush stroked backstory:
Spring 2013. New "ULSD" IP, rebuilt motor, High Output injectors, Air Dog DF-165 pump (15 PSI which, IMHO and Stan's. opinion, is too much).




Transmission rebuilt with billeted Torque Converter. Ordered it without a shift kit and that's the way the tunes have been built for it but, guess what, I re-read the rebuild sheet the other day and it got a shift kit. No wonder it shifts dumb.
2013 late fall. Went to 'normal' injectors for several thousand miles (truck never felt right).
Truck sat for 3+ years with fuel in it, drained it out before restarting but, never can get all of it.
Air dog failed 500 miles from home (ran better without it)
Stock LP failed 300 miles from home (ran about the same)
Normal injectors apparently were junk as none really sprayed and all popped at 3200 or above (tested myself after AK tried and couldn't get them to go)
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No I didn't use a fuel additive, 2 stroke additive or otherwise for way to long as I was stupid thinking ULSD pumps don't need it....
Truck still drives ok and accelerates great once it's warmed up but doesn't feel right really. That and coal is too easy to roll so I'm watching out the rear view mirror almost as much as the windshield when accelerating. Rattle and chatter noise never goes away and is so annoying that the truck is a pretty much a hanger queen.

Bill and I have tried repeatedly to get this pig sorted out and have condemned the IP. New tunes that 'work great for everybody else' run stupid and worse than my current tune (grey smoke never goes away and/or it won't accelerate).




So,
New Fuel Tank (arrived today and currently waiting for undercoating to dry).
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New Tank Sock on the shelf.
New IP on the way.
New set of Bosch injectors on the way.
New LP on shelf and Air Dog has been rebuilt.
New fuel filters on the shelf.

Blow lines out going back to fuel tank, fully drain the tank.
Replace tank and sock (will be interesting to see what that sock looks like).
Replace LP (OEM or Air Dog...not sure yet).
Replace IP.
Replace Injectors.
Hope Bill or Big T make a road trip through here with their TechII scanner so I can properly time the IP.

Should be done next week sometime. I do nothing fast anymore and besides, the injectors and IP aren't expected before Tuesday anyway.
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What color is the engine paint? Looks awesome.👍🏻
 
Accurately Crisply…gotta love a good autocorrect Faux Pas (sp?).
Engine was a Chrysler Blue but now, P-400 Black.
No burn outs. I was able to help Bill get his PCM tuning software and hardware to get along and se he was able to go over the previous tune and correct shifts and fuel curves. Truck doesn’t slam the shifts anymore and performance is a lot smoother. Transmission was rebuild 30K ago and I specifically asked they not install the shift kit that they did anyway. I did have a billeted Torque Converter though because the initial build in 2013 was supposedly going to make gobs of power. It was a hoot to drive but, didn’t live up to expectations. Then it all went south. Ya’ll know the long story. It’s plenty fun now though. Oh, and he did program my spare PCM with a nice hot tune for those special occasions when delusions of youth creep up on me.
Tires are date coded 2013 so they’ll be getting replaced soon. Thinking of ditching the big truck look and moving back to OEM-ish sizes around 265 70 16. Will have to get rid of the fender flares if I do. Decisions decisions.
 
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