Green monster

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If you want to learn how my injectors work, watch this starting at about 5:10. A single valve controls both metering and start of the injection event off a fixed cam profile with a fixed 150psi fuel supply. 

That design just has to be German at its roots. Wow.

https://youtu.be/V_PdkoXdmjY


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Advanced maintenance under way



Thanks for the assist tipping out and setting down. smike, you showed up just in time.

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3 more broken bolts. All threading into intercooler.

Hopefully won’t be too bad to take care of.

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Sweet, even have a line of storms coming in to dilute the coolant!

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dropped at BJR. Brad will give me a call tomorrow after they take a look at it.

SWAG at 700 +/- if tanks and frame all look good, and they do seem to at a glance.

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core estimate at $900 out the door. bah. prob end of week to have it built by their supplier and put together.

They'll tear it apart tomorrow, I'll take care of any frame issues if any of the corrosion around the bottom is true rot. He was pretty excited to hear that instead of having to wait on shipping that around, which strikes me a good people to work with. I guess they don't do fab work in-house which I found a little surprising.

I forgot to grab the hard pipes from the truck. I should block off the air and water connections anyway, I'll have to swing down to the shop tonight to do that and I'll grab the hard pipes. Hopefully all the crusties on those are unimportant. The rubber hoses I took apart were all in great shape.

I think if I'm a smart man, I'll pull the HVAC cores and condensor and have those all checked over and cleaned up, and see about getting lines made and blah blah blah ready for AC and having good heat on the water side of things even if the air side of things still needs work. Coordinated attack and proper order of operations!

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heater box - unedited and rotated wrong. maybe I'll redo.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-a-jblreZNw

cores out. Both available new from Int, but at $600 each.
Good thing I pulled things, some rot on the heater side from road spray underneath. Hopefully I get get full functionation out of it with some new resistors and checking wiring to get all fans working. Should be plenty of BTUs available in there if the coolant does hit 150-170.

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Heater core $100 on rockauto

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3/4 broken bolts extracted from intercooler. Whole stack is torn down and ready to drop at rad shop for check/clean. See how rich they think I am and how salable they think my parts are.

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Radiator just assembled and tested. Drying out of the test tank for paint now.

Great contact from Brad at BJR. Didn’t get up early enough to drop/talk about other parts before eye checkup. So I’ll be over there in a bit once the doc peers into my soul...

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BJR will be pressure testing and cleaning my condenser and charge cooler, and should be able to repair the crunchy heater core inlet/outlets. Couldn't do anything with the evap core.

Got to see the rad pre-paint. That is a pretty piece of golden copper!

I found a few other parts listings to chase, hopefully I can get away with something other than $600 OE. we'll see...

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clean bill of health on everything and paint is drying 👍🏼 👍🏼

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Everything is in the service body. Assemble when weather dries out. Not sure if I’ll try to put it in the truck right away or not. Probably will, not sure how long I’ll be waiting for AC parts and heater box access isn’t impacted by cooler stack presence.

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Buncha progress

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Cooling system all put back together. Didn’t run all the way up to temp but did get 5-10 minutes on it. No issues it seemed.

Would be nice if it wasn’t $700 to get a new evaporator since it would be nice to just do all the heater box stuff and be DONE there. I wonder if I can fix it with a compression fitting, or solder on a new fitting for the gas return line.

Most everything else is available from idle air or HMC Truck.