Forged 370 coming together.
#261
I'd love to but the truck is up in SF in Rick's hands. I'm **** about things as you are so I know what you mean. And this is why I'm not building it as it would take me forever because I would most likely bathe the block, pistons, rings, valves, etc... in diesel and scrub it clean until it shined again. But I just want it to run and run right.
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Hey, Julien - Does Rick have any theories as to why all of the oil fouling on the cylinder that blew? I didn't know that a blown head gasket could cause oil fouling.
#269
Here is an update for you all.
Heads and parts are back on the truck as of last night. Waiting on a new intake elbow that Julien wanted and to test the Meth injection to make sure it works still.
The bad thing we also found was the pushrod lengths were wrong. He has adjustable rockers, so when they chose the rod length, the rocker bottoms out on the stand studs. I added .050 to the length and got a nice moving rocker arm with the correct amount of preload on the lifter now. You could not put enough preload on it before. So this should help the truck some more too. The one thing I dont like is the valve pattern, it was tough to decide on how much rod to run because of where the rocker hits the valve. Its as good as it will get now.
Rick
Heads and parts are back on the truck as of last night. Waiting on a new intake elbow that Julien wanted and to test the Meth injection to make sure it works still.
The bad thing we also found was the pushrod lengths were wrong. He has adjustable rockers, so when they chose the rod length, the rocker bottoms out on the stand studs. I added .050 to the length and got a nice moving rocker arm with the correct amount of preload on the lifter now. You could not put enough preload on it before. So this should help the truck some more too. The one thing I dont like is the valve pattern, it was tough to decide on how much rod to run because of where the rocker hits the valve. Its as good as it will get now.
Rick