Don't have to be some pilot type to do a great job. Man that looks super!

Quote from: Flyin6 on June 14, 2015, 03:10:13 PM

......Let's see the proof and the light patina of rust on that purdy frame in your thread! June is comin' up on 1/2 way done!

Wanna wager?

I'd say I get my rear winch plumbed in and runnin' before you fire up that big cam Cummins in your stretch!

I don't remember Norm specifying which June, ......in his defense.

Ahhh, Good point!

Don despite any good nature ribbing we all give you regarding it being running, you have some valid concerns.

As for the TV cable.... why exactly is the problem? They fist gen style, and the sec gen style are available yet from Dodge. Or they were when I replaced mine this last spring. $120 and change for the first gen cable. Guess I have never swapped a P pump onto a 1st gen auto tranny, but it can't be too involved a process. People do it all the time.

If not somewhat familiar with the engine and it being fresh, it may be a grand idea to have a professional start it. Was the cam broke in before you acquired it? If not that's a concern in these. A cummins isn't a inexpensive engine by any means and they have their quirks.

Besides, if you start it too soon it ruins the suspense LoL

Norm, I believe the cam is original to a sub 200K motor.
Story is the young man who owned the engine/truck was growing up, late teen. His uncle, the mechanic was putting together a performance engine, piece by piece. Spring here, timing there.

One day the young man tears the truck up. So he decides to pull the engine and have it rebuilt while he does a home repair on the truck. Well the uncle pulls it and finds perfect bores, as in cross-hatching. He polishes the crank and reinstalls it with new bearings. He replaces the pistons with new std size marine pistons, had the head freshened up with a performance valve job and some cutting. Installs ARP head studs, fixes the dowel pin, and goes through the Bosch P-7100. HE added 4000 RPM springs, laser cut the delivery valves, a #5 fuel plate, and a few other minor things. He said he placed the timing back at 12.5 degrees (Stock) and bolted it all back together. He had replaced the P-Pump earlier while the motor was still running in the truck.

He said it was getting pretty fast back then and he was concerned with going up too much farther with a young guy driving it...

Well, young man in question gets impatient, realizes he is in too deep and buys another truck, while uncle is pretty deep into this freshened up engine, which becomes my good fortune and resolution to the uncle's quandary.

Long story, but I believe the cam is stock, probably a good idea, although I would have liked to replace it with a better one.

TV cable: Mostly procrastination. It will need a 2nd gen. 47RH and the A518 should meet with the trans about the same, but the Bosh pump bracket is a lot farther forward than the VE motor. The stocker was way too short. Anyway, that is not done and I need to spend some time in there to figure it all out. In the end, I think it will run and run fine.

Good job.

I bet a lot of those 10-22's get a similar treatment

And a Very HAPPY BIRTHDAY to the lucky new gun owner!

and where was ranger while all this was going on? 

let me play devils advocate or murphy's partner in crime here for a moment.  are you sure that that copper thing-a-ma-jig that you spliced into that fuse is not going to cause any problems and will hold up over time.....?  I ask that because the way that you showed almost seems like running a power strip off of another power strip because you didn't have a long enough piece of proper cable to wire it in correctly......?

It will be fine.
I ran that cable there just for the winch. No way to bolt the circuit breaker assembly without an "Adapter"
It's coming off the hot battery side so no load on that fuse at all.
Vibration would be my only concern, but it's soft copper made to make bus bars with in circuit breaker panels.
Besides the truck isn't seeing much in the way of vibration...it's not running and no earthquakes since 1928... ;-))

Bumper looks really nice chief. Whatcha gonna do about those springs? Will adding a leaf be enough?


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Going to add two leaves from the 25 year old skyjacker 6" lift springs

The dogs jumped up a couple times and ran out after something. Later, I found another brown box sitting in the shop with that new SuperWinch inside

I'm really happy with how the underside of that frontal area turned out. No real areas to hang up on like stock and anything that a rock might hit is steel and pretty thick.

Note also that the springs have turned flat on me...probably due to the magnetic field around in the iron rich (not) rocks of Kentucky! Or possibly because there is a couple of tons of weight pushing on them...???

While installing that I routed it through a thick zip lock baggie to give it some weather protection

Mounting the circuit breaker in line and beside the maxi-fuse off the main battery

 :)

They were teaching "history" in my daughters school. They began to cover religious history with muslim (say what) and another parent and I stood up and go why not Christian first?? Teacher was  taken back by us, but thank goodness my daughter was smart enough to see through it. This common core is widely accepted out here and many teachers like it. At least 2+2 is still 4, but getting there is strange.

Then we have the kids who cannot wear the US flag on a shirt on cinco de mayo as it may cause unrest.

I am so glad I don't have to hold my tongue for anyone now and can carry in all 50 states regardless of local-state law.

We need more like you but my friend you are part of a dwindling minority which is both under the microscope and under attack

Quote from: moto123 on June 12, 2015, 01:45:41 PM

Quote from: TexasRedNeck on May 14, 2015, 09:46:58 PM

When we believe that public schools should teach everyone to the same standard, we either disenfranchise some or drag others down by teaching to the lowest common denominator.

This is one of the major issues with our current education system, it is a one size fits all method.  This system is very easy to administer by the teachers, but is not well received by all students.  There are other, much more effective methods available, but they would require more effort on the teachers part and more resources allocated by school districts.  Which is hard sell, even if it could guarantee better education.  Not to mention a complete paradigm shift in the attitude and thinking about how education occurs.  Also it would become difficult to continue using standardized testing (which is another whole topic about whether those tests really provide value)

Gotta disagree with you on this one-

Took 7 hours, but the coffee kicked in!

I'd say

The winch wires directly to the preinstalled maxi-fuse, but I just realized if the winch would blow that circuit, I'd also loose all the stuff in the overhead switch panel...sooo, I'll need to wire in yet another Maxi fuse dedicated only to the winch

After cutting some of the upper rib away in the fine tuning stage, I ended up with pretty decent clearance between the bumper and the fender

Actually installing that bumper was really easy.  I just raised the bumper into alignment and slid it back until it stopped, started the six bolts then using an impact tightened them all. Total time maybe 5 minutes!

Then the bumper was maneuvered into place

Next I threw on the roller fairhead

I am beginning to become suspicious ... I think he DID try to fire up the engine and after multiple failed attempts he wants to string us along while he works out the issues in secret.  Gotta preserve that reputation of perfection after all.  ;)

Or maybe not and with a magic turn of the key he will ....

FIRE IT UP

Naw, no secrets
And I don't maintain a spot free reputation. More like "He finally got it right" reputation.

OK, today I went out there and said what the heck, I'm going to just start the thing up. Well I threw on the fuel pumps as I'll need to frime the entire system with diesel, and I couldn't get any fuel to the lift pumps!!!!!!!!!

Yup, I could barely hear then running but no pumping. I have a sump, but the line rises to clear the frame, then descends to the pump inlet. I guess there is not enough fuel in the tank at the moment to push it that far, so I still am in a no run situation. I added 10 gallons of fuel to the empty tank, but I'll probably have to add in another 10 gallons to get it to prime.

Linkage or no linkage, I would also like to know if it will in fact run!

If you're drinkin' quoffee while writing that it could be qualified as CIEMR material!

Sadly Don, no one in the media cares until someone dies.  If you can find someone that has dies or been maimed as a result of the safety issues you cite, then and only then will the media and your elected representative take note

I'll report this and get it off my conscience
I have found my state government to be pretty much no help what so ever
Same for my congressman. When I had that tussle with the IRS, my congressman was so locked down in rule following that they couldn't do anything. I had to do all the groundwork myself and took care of the thing totally by myself.
The Kentucky Attorney general's office simply passed me off, it is my belief that they really don't want to help.
Concerning government, folks, I believe we are really on our own against a fat, diseased, uncaring leviathan that is not coming to help anytime soon.

Thought to consider. Times are relatively good right now and we get little help from our very costly governments. How do you think things will go if there is a major calamity?

Quote from: Flyin6 on June 11, 2015, 08:56:52 PM

One here is broken, one here is from my unit

That's a heck of a landing area, (with a cliff on 3 sides)...Korea again? Afghanistan?

The one with the bird shut down is Korea, and so is the one with the hook doing an aft wheel landing. That pinnacle was right at 1000 feet high and right on the coast. Really handy for an instructor pilot like me. When the guys would start the takeoff, I'd pull an engine off line forcing them to dive in order to build rotor RPM back. The hook can be placed 30 degrees nose low to gain airspeed (and rotor RPM) quickly, which is exactly what I made them do.

Fun times!

Looks good....so why did you raptor liner it? :pokethebigD

Just felt like covering those ugly welds instead of grindin' and using body filler I suppose

Great overhead shot of a new F model

One here is broken, one here is from my unit