jacklegjim
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I bought Wreckerman893's M275 a few weeks back. Great guy to deal with he arranged the transportation to get the truck home for me and spent a few days getting me some paperwork for the title thanks again Richard. I hope to do bussisness with you again on a trailer if you still have it.
I bought the truck knowing of all the possible issues that goes with a truck in need of a restoration.
I am still in the evaluation process to see what is is going to take to make it a reliable truck.
Up to this point I have removed the fuel tank and cleaned it out. There was about 1/2" of something that was like tar in the bottom of the tank that I had to get out.
The m275 tank has three sections. I was able to get my hand in the section where the fuel pump is and clean it out. After doing reasearch I decided to go with filling it up with water and putting in a few cans of Drano. After letting it sit for a week and then pressure washing it out it came out pretty clean. I used a fuel pump bracket,fuel filler neck strainer and fuel cap from a m35 tank I already had. The ones that were in the m275 tank were in bad shape. I installed a parker pump and new fuel filters.
The fuel control assembley in the IP was stuck also. Got that working good and put new o-rings on the HH. I put 4 gallons of coolant in and I was ready to fire it up.
The engine started up and seems to run ok there are issues that need to be addressed. When the enging is first started there is a slight knock for the first few min.
it is running and has low oil pressure when up to temp. It could use a new set of rod bearings not a big issue to take care of that. Something else I noticed today
is there is some oil coming from the exhaust. This is a non turbo engine and has a piece aftermarket flexable exhaust pipe from the manifold to exhaust pipe
and some oil is coming from the joints in the flex pipe. I can't see any signs of it burning oil from the exhaust. So any ideas on how oil is getting out the exhaust other than going by the rings?
I am also planing on changing head gaskets but I can't see that fixing the oil in exhaust problem. With knowing these problems would I be better off getting a
good runner from another truck or fixing what I have? I am sure it has a lot of life left in it but, I would worry about it every time I drove it the way it is now.
Jim
I bought the truck knowing of all the possible issues that goes with a truck in need of a restoration.
I am still in the evaluation process to see what is is going to take to make it a reliable truck.
Up to this point I have removed the fuel tank and cleaned it out. There was about 1/2" of something that was like tar in the bottom of the tank that I had to get out.
The m275 tank has three sections. I was able to get my hand in the section where the fuel pump is and clean it out. After doing reasearch I decided to go with filling it up with water and putting in a few cans of Drano. After letting it sit for a week and then pressure washing it out it came out pretty clean. I used a fuel pump bracket,fuel filler neck strainer and fuel cap from a m35 tank I already had. The ones that were in the m275 tank were in bad shape. I installed a parker pump and new fuel filters.
The fuel control assembley in the IP was stuck also. Got that working good and put new o-rings on the HH. I put 4 gallons of coolant in and I was ready to fire it up.
The engine started up and seems to run ok there are issues that need to be addressed. When the enging is first started there is a slight knock for the first few min.
it is running and has low oil pressure when up to temp. It could use a new set of rod bearings not a big issue to take care of that. Something else I noticed today
is there is some oil coming from the exhaust. This is a non turbo engine and has a piece aftermarket flexable exhaust pipe from the manifold to exhaust pipe
and some oil is coming from the joints in the flex pipe. I can't see any signs of it burning oil from the exhaust. So any ideas on how oil is getting out the exhaust other than going by the rings?
I am also planing on changing head gaskets but I can't see that fixing the oil in exhaust problem. With knowing these problems would I be better off getting a
good runner from another truck or fixing what I have? I am sure it has a lot of life left in it but, I would worry about it every time I drove it the way it is now.
Jim
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