Wrecker motor swap

[Recovry4x4]

All is well. No immediate family in peril at all. She is home, and will be until Nov when she is scheduled to go to Afghanistan for a year.

 

[Stretch44875]

Big thanks to earth for the grub! Well fed MV mechanics make for happy mechanics.

 

[derby]

Hey You guy's be safe, keep the door cracked. You don't want pass out from fumes off those heaters and find you installed a gasser in the wrecker! by the way

 

[gimpyrobb]

Yup, things have been nuts! Stopped at a surplus place today and picked up a 120 gal fuel tank I plan on mounting in my deuce bed for $80! A big thanks goes to Earth for the grub! Another big thanks to everyone that has helped out. It was great meeting Nick, he helped alot. Sorry so much was going on, didn't really get a chance to BS much. The old motor is out, the new motor is prepped. Waiting on a better throw out bearing, should have thought to bring the new one I have SOMEWHERE! Just so you guys know, the newer build motors (LDT) have oil squirters to cool the pistons. Mine has a build date of 2-92. I was happy to see it has them. My 5ton turbo needs a different intake elbow, so I can't put that in yet. Thats all I can think of right now, pics later, Dennis got some good ones and so did Nick. Thanks for the support.

 

[papabear]

Drive on troop...even if DH tries to help

 

[gimpyrobb]

Motor in, wrecker runs, small stuff tomorrow.

 

[jfnemt1ff1]

Glad to hear all went good. Which I could made it out to help.
John

 

[tm america]

glad you got it running now where's the pics

 

[Earth]

Good news. Now about those pics

 

[southdave]

Thanks for the burgers Earth, ate 5 at one sitting, LOL they where outstanding with salsa
thanks again and where the PICS

 

[Speddmon]

Hey all, I just got back home about an hour or two ago. The motor swap/rally went really well. I got there about 11:00 on Friday morning, and they had the motor almost ready to pull. We finished that up and started changing things over to make an LDT fit into the place of an LDS. Saturday morning was spent finishing up with odds and ends of the change-over. and a 2 hour run to Columbus to meet up with Junkyard Wars Crusher to get the "new-er" throw-out bearing. After that little excursion, we slapped the transmission back on and put the motor in. It went in super smooth, and in a few hours we were able to get everything hooked back up to it, and fire it up before we quit for the night.

This morning started off by finishing up with intake and body panels of the wrecker. As well as getting DH set up for his trip home with his new 819. It was a great weekend. Lots of great food thanks to Earth, lots of good company....even if DH was there . And, surprisingly enough, even a few beers were drunk. Overall, I would say a good time was had by all.

I know Nick and Stretch took quite a few good pics, and they will get them posted up soon enough for you hounds to look at.

 

[Stretch44875]

Here's some pics...lots more later.

 

[timntrucks]

what a party... the fun times are made by the best guys in the world coming together to help each other out

 

[scooter01922]

Gimp looks thrilled in that first pic..... and do i spy Dh playing with a pussy


don't kill me, couldn't help it....

 

[Stretch44875]

more

 

[citizensoldier]

So Eric is en route home? Looks like a cool setup for the trip home.. Hey did he find that 250 on the side of the road in NJ?

 

[Speddmon]

No, Eric is pulling out Monday morning at the butt crack of dawn.

 

[Recovry4x4]

I like these kinf of threads. Love the pics too. Eric looks like he got himself a warranty motor sans the can lid. Did I see a hint of a blue POS in the background?

 

[Westech]

Did Eric make it home yet? and can you snap some pictures of my blue junker that he dropped off? I have not seen it yet.

Thank you

Love Westy.

 

[Speddmon]

Hey Good News!!!!!

I got my one heater working again!!!

That was for Gimpy, Stretch and DH.

Now for the rest of you wondering what the heck I'm talking about.

On Saturday night, one of my torpedo heaters finally ran out of fuel (we had been running them hard Friday night and all day Saturday)...you can see one of them in one of stretches pictures above, the yellow ones. We were busy working on getting the wrecker back together, and the other one was putting out enough heat for us to be comfortable, we just finished up without filling it back up or unplugging it. Sunday morning when we went back out to the barn, and plugged in the power cord feeding our lights and heaters (I forgot that we left one plugged in, but the other one that was running had been unplugged to shut it down)...anyway, when I plugged in the cord, the fan on that heater came on immediately for about 1 or 2 seconds and shut off...It's not supposed to do that!!! After that it wouldn't fire up at all. I opened it up at stretches and looked at it quickly, but in the dim light I didn't notice anything out of the ordinary...I thought It might have fried a component on the control board..no big deal, and back to work.

Today I got it off the truck and in proper light, I opened it up again and on the control board, what I thought at stretches was a semiconductor device, was really a gray colored, heavily dusted fuse cover. I opened the cover and found and replaced the blown fuse and now I have both heaters working again.

Happy me!!