ol' rusty

[lowbudget50]

Thanks binder!

 

[lowbudget50]

Radiator hoses, radiator , oil filter lines, heater hoses, coil wire and a front bumper tonight.

Now I'm sitting at the kitchen table making up spark plug wires

 

[DozerII]

Won't be long know and there will be some rumbling sounds coming from the MB shop

 

[animal]

Wow, you're cruisin' right along! Great progress. [cl[cl

 

[BillM]

I'll say! You're close now...

 

[lowbudget50]

Thanks guys. I will be putting some water in it tonight along with wiring up neutral saftey switch along with the brake switch and starting on the dash wiring

 

[lowbudget50]

Under dash is all wired, thermostatic relay for fan is done, neutral safety relay/ switch is done. Still have the dash to do tonight along with build fan shroud and install fans. Run main battery cable and fill trans and diff with oil. Oh yeah then the rest of my list It will be running tomorrow!!!!!!!

 

[joedoh]

looking good, that run up to the first start is always exciting

 

[lowbudget50]

looking good, that run up to the first start is always exciting

I'm excited and nervous. Have a lot of money in that motor. Obviously not the first one we've ever built but probably the most expensive

 

[lowbudget50]

Here is a short video of the truck starting for the first time outside. It is the second time we started it. We fired it up inside just to make sure it would start. This is just the start up I'll post the whole video and the rest of the story. We ran into an issue

The video doesnt do the sound justice!!

https://youtu.be/vrCE5pbK4iY

 

[soltz]

Nice sounding leaf blower
Nothing broke[S that's a good thing[cl

 

[lowbudget50]

Nice sounding leaf blower
Nothing broke[S that's a good thing[cl

Yes it works great as a leaf blower. No nothing broke, but I messed up and the intake has an issue. Two separate problems yes. I overlooked the soft plug behind the distributor inside the block that Ford thought would be a good idea to put there. So we were losing oil pressure there. If you let it idle it went down to about 2 lb, if you wrapped it up it went up like it was supposed to. But it was enough that idiot light was coming on in the dash so we knew there was a problem and we thought the ticking noise that we were hearing was the front to lifters not pumped up. Turns out that the intake casting is so crappy that six of the pushrods are rubbing ever-so-slightly. I'm not so sure if they're rubbing or just tapping against it as they're moving up and down. So I have proceeded to clean out the casting where the pushrods go so they clear I also got the plug installed and I will be putting it back together Wednesday. I have another video of the whole process of starting it. It started super easy I couldn't believe it. Then I'm doing a separate video on what I did wrong fixing it and putting it back together

 

[kenny c]

Glad you found and fixed the problems before any damage was done.

 

[lowbudget50]

Glad you found and fixed the problems before any damage was done.

Me too, this isn't a cheap engine hahahahaha

 

[lowbudget50]

Full startup video!

https://youtu.be/OsM6mB_WCpU

 

[lowbudget50]

Well it has more oil pressure at an idle!

Short video, it sounds good!!

https://youtu.be/bAbsiKgktAQ

 

[joedoh]

sounds awesome! dont worry about the foibles, engines always run better the third or fourth time you start them! [cl[cl[cl[cl

 

[lowbudget50]

So I got it all together tires and wheels back on it, rolled it outside. I finished up the exhaust tighten up all the suspension, put grease fittings in a greased everything. We also took some time and manually bleed the brakes they are better I still think I'm getting are somewhere I'm not sure. Here's the last update video for the year on it. It has a sound clip in it with a full exhaust on it it sounds really good

https://youtu.be/k8kIgz_tIcs

 

[dutch]

that thing turned out sick.... [dr

 

[kenny c]

Killer.[cl[cl