For 5 0r 6 bucks you can go buy a oil pump seal and remove the pump to checkout the timing cover / pump condition all in about one hour including putting it all back together. The only thing that sucks is, if it is like mine out comes the engine to replace the timing cover. All in all I'd do it...
I decided to do some major maintenance on the engine. Thursday before Thanksgiving dinner I started about 8:00am removing the 7.3 from my truck in my avatar. It looks so intimidating at first glance. However 3 hours later it was on the engine stand.
I had anticipated the cracked oil pump...
I did a friends '01 a couple years back. I'll call him and see if he has his reciept still, so I can post up all the part numbers for everything required. We do so much custom stuff it's hard to remember off the top of my head.
If you use the uppermost portion of the filler neck off of a 88-2000 Chevy diesel truck you can poke the huge semi truck filler nozzles in it and really fill'er up.
I have 2 diagrams (very easy to use) but I can't reduce the resolution enough to make them small enough to post here. PM your email to me and I'll send them, or email me at [email protected]
I just went with the "go with what you know" on this deal. I don't know the exact specs, but the pump I used is an AC/Delco EP386 which is a TBI 88-95 Chevy pickup fuel pump which in my experience internally bypasses @ around 20 PSI on the ones I have tested in the past by blocking off the...
I bought mine with 80k. It now has 178K. I have put the whole 4 gallons of Rotella T in it the whole time I have owned it (read 16 quarts) and my friend I bought it from did the same thing. No mechanical engine problems whatsoever.
Mine is on 88 PSI. ZERO FP drop with the submerged pump in the tank. ZERO air in the return. My regulator and return are stock (shimmed as it was when I purchased it from a friend). Standard pickup / sock filter on the in-tank pump. Lots more power etc(quicker boost, more boost, more smoke...
What's up Noob? I have an engine (spare in my shop). Wanna try the sensor for free? Welcome to the board. I'm pretty much newb too. I'm working on my Camaro tomorrow or the TT truck. Come by if you get the chance. My cell is 405-520-8450. If I am not there Randy will be there working on his FB I...
Exactly my point. Keeping the high pressure pump right where it is.
There is always some vacuum between the frame pump and the tank pickup, which a high volume low pressure pump in the tank would completely eliminate. Vacuum expands the molecules in air and all fuels have some air in it...
Just wondering instead of replacing all the fittings etc that you can suck air from between the strainer and the pump.
Why not put a submersible style low pressure pump in the tank? Anybody know anyone who may have tried this? The gasoline Ford trucks used this for years in the 80's and 90's...