QUOTE:Wow Ken, you've been on here a long time. You joined SS even before the internet existed
Yea That was done as a joke by Mike. He used to be a mod here. It's been so long I cant even remember what the joke was about. Al Gore just thinks it was him who invented the internet!
LoL
Wow Ken, you've been on here a long time. You joined SS even before the internet existed
You can mount your temp gauge at the front of the drivers side head. But your idiot light wont work, but then again you wont need it. I don't like mounting them there because it sometimes touches the casting. So you wind up seeing a hotter temp because it is reading the top of the combustion chamber. You will think your overheating when your not. Under a load the temp will show to skyrocket then it will drop when you let off the throttle. If you can get a crossover from a 6.2 Humvee you can place it in the port there to be accurate. But that's for a later time. Lets hear it run!
Well... Here is my UPDATE:
I finally figured out where a "mystery" fuel line coming off the fuel filter base which I had been looking at for a week thinking it was the drain... it was a rubber hose with what looked like a piece of brake line with fitting stuck in the end and hose clamped on... but apparently that is how it was made from factory. As I finally figured out it went to the center of the IP right in between all the injection lines, which of course were now all under the intake... that was pill to get my big hands in there, and snake the line up through all the injection lines, get the nut started, and even worse trying to get a wrench on it to tighten it up.
Anyway got that done, put a new fuel filter on, dropped the batteries in and etc. I thought I had got everything buttoned up... so I pushed it out of the garage around 2 o'clock this afternoon. I filled the radiator with distilled water, first thing the thermostat housing started dripping... So I took it apart and found that the thermostat had dropped out of the groove it was supposed to sit in, so since I had used gasket sealer, I had to clean it all up and make another gasket. Got it put back together, without sealer this time, re-topped off the radiator, no more leak.
I pulled the pink wire on the IP, and cranked the engine a couple times. Then we found that there was a water leak toward the bottom drivers side of the radiator. And there was an oil leak back further under the engine. So we pushed the truck back in the garage to take a look.
The oil leak is apparently coming from the plug above the oil lines right above the oil filter. Which I had taken that plug out a couple weeks ago with the intention of putting a mechanical oil sending unit there, but long story short that didn't work out, I have since bought a new electrical sending unit and gauge. So I when I went to put the plug back in, it didn't want to go... of course. I fought with that for an hour or so, and when it did go in, it felt tight, but I thought maybe it was just the thread tape I had on there... was hoping it didn't cross thread, but that is now my guess as to what happened...... so I've got to fix that now.
The water leak on the bottom drivers side of the radiator, we thought at first was the drain. So I snugged that up, still didn't stop... so I snugged up the actual nut that is the drain plug "assembly".. still didn't stop... So I pulled that drain plug out, and put in another I had that was the same thread etc. Still the leak didn't stop... I knew at that point (with certainty) that apparently when the truck overheated when the head gasket blew and it lost its water, it must have blown a hole or cracked one of the... "lines" or whatever you want to call them, in the radiator...
We closed up the garage and quit for the day, as I've got to run to town to pick a couple things since tonight at sunset begins Sabbath. So I won't work on it tomorrow it be Sabbath, depending on what is going on the next day, which is Rosh Chodesh/"new moon", I might pull the radiator then, if not then it will be the 1st day of the week/wednesday. But I'm pretty sure I'll need another radiator, as this is not the original. We got this radiator about 4 years ago when we were on the road, and were in Montana and it was 95+ all that week. The original radiator had a seam unzip right when we were passing through the middle of Missoula right down the main drag during apparently rush hour. My Mom was driving the truck at the time, and we had to circle around and she got it stopped and shut off in a grocery store parking lot. We had to have it towed to a gas station on the outer edge of town, which had a large gravel parking lot.
Since we were on the road, we just went to napa and ordered a new one for $400... it took 3 different radiators over the course of a week before they got one that my Dad and I felt might not leak, as the previous two look like they had been dropped off a truck and beat up... in any case, we finally got one and were able to get it in, and continue on our way after sitting at that gas station for a week.
I don't know why I didn't just think about trying to find someone to repair the original... I've wondered that ever since, and worse yet we got rid of it shortly after that simply because our trucks and two cargo trailers were so full at the time, as we were living out of them, and it was always in the way.
Anyway, I am
99.9% sure that I'll have to find another radiator. Would like to find someone here on SS with one really, rather than these cheap made replacements. I certainly will never buy another from napa to say the least, haven't liked this thing since we bought it.
this is the old one from my project M1008. Factory Harrison. 
The new one fit and looked original. Should keep the engine cool. Have a great day. $318.
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