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Got a 93 K3500...What to do with it ?

What to do with this truck...

  • Cut it up for parts

    Votes: 1 4.5%

  • Fix it and sell it

    Votes: 2 9.1%

  • Fix it and keep it

    Votes: 10 45.5%

  • Voluntary commitment to a mental institution for diesel addicts

    Votes: 10 45.5%
  • Total voters
    22
Acesneights1 said:
That drain pipe for the engine valley is discontinued and I didn't have time to try and find one. Not sure what it looks like as I have never seen one but I made this little ditty up. The pic was snapped before I secured it to the bolt hole with a clamp. I flared the end in the valley and packed snot around it. Cleared the flywheel no prob. Better than nothing right ? I am so ****ing pissed. I bought the bracket for the starter and forgot to chase the hole while the engine was on the stand. So I go to pu the bolt in in the truck and the ****ing thing snapped in the hole. Mother****er...:mad2::mad2::mad2::mad2:
Ran out of daylight but it's in. Hopefully get er runnin tomorrow.
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Almost had the snapped starter brace bolt hole problem with the K-5 since it was missing the bracket when i bought it and the hole was packed with crap. Got the bolt stuck and broke a 1/4" drive socket trying to remove it. That's when i stuck the 3/8 long handle ratchet on it, said "well **** it" and pulled and it popped free. Chased the threads and that was that.

That tube looks just like the factory one. It's nothing more than a piece of steel line with a little flared "lip" on one end(like the bubble at the end of steel fuel lines) so the tube stops there. Pack a little silicone around it to hold it and then the clamp bolts to the small hole that's right below your custom tube.

I would've made one had i not had that spare engine in the shed.

I fell that engine will slowly be picked apart instead of rebuilt and running at this rate. :hihi:
 
Yeah I put the clamp in the same spot as Bk's pic. I'm not messing with the starter bolt until I see how it runs. It's a good half day project to "try" and get it out and I'd rather know it's worth doing.
 
It's Alive !!!!!
So far so good. ran it for a good 10 mins. saw a few bubbles in the overflow which had me nervous but I think it;'s just air working out. There is no pressure at all in the rad. Hose is soft (like lookin at Oprah naked) and I ran it and revved it up and then opened the rad cap and not a sound. I'm gonna dump the cooling system tomorrow as I only put water in it for testing and fill with antifreeze. It started with no effort and runs like a baby. The high idle even works. Now the bad news. I must have put the clutch slave in wrong and the rod popped out a small drain hole in the bell housing and brake fluid everywhere:mad2::mad2::mad2: I shoved the plunger back in it and made sure it hit the fork this time but now I got no pedal and I'm not sure if the slave is ruined. It was brand new...:mad2::mad2::mad2:
What a stupid system. The older chevys with the zbars were so much better. This thing has a million wiring problems. Nothing in the truck works . The fusible link was burned up, but she runs and runs good.:)
 
Acesneights1 said:
It's Alive !!!!!
So far so good. ran it for a good 10 mins. saw a few bubbles in the overflow which had me nervous but I think it;'s just air working out. There is no pressure at all in the rad. Hose is soft (like lookin at Oprah naked) and I ran it and revved it up and then opened the rad cap and not a sound. I'm gonna dump the cooling system tomorrow as I only put water in it for testing and fill with antifreeze. It started with no effort and runs like a baby. The high idle even works. Now the bad news. I must have put the clutch slave in wrong and the rod popped out a small drain hole in the bell housing and brake fluid everywhere:mad2::mad2::mad2: I shoved the plunger back in it and made sure it hit the fork this time but now I got no pedal and I'm not sure if the slave is ruined. It was brand new...:mad2::mad2::mad2:
What a stupid system. The older chevys with the zbars were so much better. This thing has a million wiring problems. Nothing in the truck works . The fusible link was burned up, but she runs and runs good.:)
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Now just what would you be doing looking at Oprah while naked?:???::hihi:
 
The best part is the LP is boogered to a toggle switch in the cab and I forgot to turn it on and the truck still started. Gotta love a DB2.
 
Well she runs real good. I'd love to take her for a test drive but this MF clutch setup licks a dead moose's !@#. I can't get it bled. I'm gonna go get another slave. The slave has to be sucking air back in. either that or I riuned the master when the slave blew apart. What a stupid stupid system. Morons at GM. The old style zbar setups worked beautiful. No issues at all. What junk. Truck runs sweet though. Perhaps if I hold my cutting torch over the truck again it may cooperate with the clutch purge....:D
Put plates on it this am. Something maybe wrong with the turbo. The wastegate seems awful stiff and not getting boost but I have not driven it yet. No prob, got two spare GM4's.
 
Then what the heck am I doing wrong ?? I followed the procedure you posted in the other thread word for word. I just pickup up a new slave cyl so hopefully that was it I'm so pissed. I wanted this thing driveable by 2:30 so I could pick my son up from school in it. He was so excited this am. That was all he wanted...:(
 
Never played with the hydraulic set up on these, but have one on my 70 pick up. I like it much better. Anyway on it I was able to open the bleed screw on the throw out bearing and just keep the master full. It purged itself of air doing it like that. then retighten bleed screw. Not sure if 93 is the same process??
 
I want to do an NV4500 conversion in my truck someday. The only way i would do it is to have another truck with a bad engine sitting right beside it so i could swap parts right over.. Hard to find my donor vehicle... I like that truck a lot, the thing looks sick with the lift! I would love to lift mine like that but IFS is just too expensive, and my truck has a plow, so a lift would throw it way off. I got a lift on my Wrangler, i guess thats good enough. Looking good tho! My engine didnt have the drain tube either. Also had a 1994 gasser with hydro clutch and never had any issues bleeding it.
 
Still can't get it bled but was able to take it for a test drive. Just had to pump the crap out of the clutch every time. It runs mint. Boost is kinda low. I'm gonna swap turbos. I think that turbo is junk.
Thing does look bass ass. It would have been ashamed to cut it up.:agreed::thumbsup:
 

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Tranny is near impossible to shift into any gear even at idle standing still ? Could that be the clutch ? If I pump the piss out of the pedal sometimes it will shift better. I can't get the air out of it. I don't know what I am doing wrong. I hate hydraulic clutchs.
Truck runs so smooth. Really, mech inj is the way these were meant to be. It feels weird driving it and actually "feeling" the throttle. I will never own another DS4. From this day forth 93 or convert later model. The truck runs like a bat out of hell and no smoke nothing even with the low boost. Can wait to see what a working turbo does....I wonder if there is a way to convert this think to clutch linkage. I would think a cable could be fabbed. I am sure I saw a conversion kit somewhere.
 
perhaps the master is bad.

Yea i agree. DB2 does feel totally different form the DS4 setup, and that's coming from a guy who owns and drives both frequently.

Kenny the truck does look good.

As far as the poor shifting, i'd say it's air in the system. Pumping the pedal compresses the air, but since air can compress and fluid can't the air in the system is causing the clutch fork to not go it's full travel and not totally disengage the clutch from the flywheel.
 
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