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- Aug 29, 2012
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- Location
- Dyersburg, TN
- First Name
- Jimmie
- Truck Year
- 2005
- Truck Model
- 1500
- Engine Size
- 5.3
thats one sweet engine build
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thats one sweet engine build
Put some miniquads in it and freak people out by telling them it's a 1989 prototype.
That would be hilarious, maybe get those inverted color stickers the trucks from mexico got and leave the interior blue.
Not much is left except pain in the ass projects. If my dummy lifter fits right I am golden and can seal up the intake manifold and figure out something with intake manifold fasteners. If my suspicions are right the lifter wont fit in the bore and I will have to rob one out of the engine and order a replacement online along with the push rods I will wait for. On another note, if I use washers the lifter wont be damaged, I could just take it apart and replace the washers with the spring and use it!
Break in oil is another gray area, oil for this thing period is a grey area. I am stuck on conventional oil, I dont feel like running full synthetic would be a good idea in this engine. I found break in oil offered by lucas but its a straight weight race only oil so im not using that ****! Thinking I will most likely break it in using conventional stuff with Lucas oil additive until everything is scrubbed together good and switch to some full synthetic lucas 10-30 after the first month or so of run time.
Fuel lines are the next issue, I took the tbi off in the dark and ruined one of the hard lines. Wrecking yards around here dont exist, the one we have is a joke so that option is out. This is an easy one, stainless braided lines with AN fittings. Sounds easy enough but I am sure it will turn into a pain in the ass with stuff not fitting right.
Its all the little details about this project that keep me up at night, at this point if this thing fails I will have a ton of egg on my face and a very pissed off wife. Several dudes I work with ask me about it on a regular basis, all it takes for me to look like a huge ******* is one small detail I missed and a big block is full of them.
The engine came without an oil filter adapter, there was no sandwich adapter with cooler line fitting either. Gen VI blocks have provisions built in for oil cooler lines, mine have plugs in them so it appears the engine was not running an oil cooler unless it was a sandwich adapter which is kinda stupid considering you could remove a couple plugs and run pre bent factory lines. This problem matters, if I am wrong the oil filter problem oil will be bypassing the filter completely and all the little particles of aluminum bearing and cast iron chunks will flow through everything. Engines running an oil cooler system have different check valves to compensate for resistance caused by oil running through hoses and a cooler. For now I am not running a cooler because I am not sure which one I want.
This whole project is keeping me up at night, just want it done.
Sounds like a bunch of ******** to figure out which push rods you need. Have you looked over any information included with your cam or the roller rockers as far as a suggestion on what size push rods to get??? There is also such thing as adjustable push rods for BBC IIRC.