If the system is already primed, yes it can run with a dead lift pump. the IP will keep drawing its own fuel, although not enough under hard conditions. and its easy for the system to lose its prime after long periods of sitting.

trying to prime a system with a bad pump just flat out isnt going to work.

 

thats' the point I was trying to make

 

well as i await parts to arrived, i went onto another project. My stereo system clean up. When you have 4 speakers wired onto an amp, and 2 subs and another amp, theres a crap load of wiring running everywhere. and i hate wires, and a messy install. I was going to build a custom box, but i've decided against that for now. Just going to keep a clean set up.


So for anyone thats a little stereo dumb, heres a couple beginner tips.

First and foremost. AMPLIFIERS! if you want the absolute best sounding system, get a nice set of speakers, and amplify them. the deck wattage is just never enough! Doesnt matter how nice your deck is. quality products is everything, but the more watts your pumping out, the better yet. Im not talking just about bass here. The highs, the lows, the midrange, the clarity. everything sounds better. So amp for subs, amp for speakers, is step one. (picking the correct components is a whooole nother level)

My alpine amp is dedicated to my 4 6x9 kicker speakers
My Rockford is dedicated to the 2 kicker CVR subs.

use quality wires to prevent interference. again, quality is EVERYTHING. even down to the wires used.

i loom as many wires together as possible to keep things tidy, and then i run them under the amps for 2 reasons. keeping the amps elevated helps keep them cooler, and they aid in hiding a lot of wiring. Theres 25 seperate strands of wiring running to the two amps. Keeping everything like this makes it hard to tell theres so much wiring back here.



but thats still not clean enough for me. so my buddys wife made me this wood burned sign.



going to build a base around it for it to mount too, which will hide all my amps and wiring completely. It will just look like a big bulge in my back seat with a wood sign on it.

 

i may have just had the worst stuck injector in history! i was moments away from breaking out another grand and completely rebuilding my entire head.

my number 6, (or is it number 1?) injector was flat out stuck. we broke 2 injector pullers to start things off. then we broke out the slide hammer, and that did nothing but seperate teh injector at the threads.. flat out stripped the threads and seperated in half. Then we took a tap and tapped the bottom half of hte injector that was still stuck in the head, screwed a bolt into it, and did the slide hammer again. it finally came out. after the bolt slipped a couple more threads and jammed its self up in the injector. i think we spent about 3 hours on that one injector. was pure hell. and now the nut that tightens the injector down, gets tight before it ever touches the head... little worried about that. the threads all seem fine. but i cant get it to sit on the head. Its torqued to 50 lbs, and im going to try to fire it like that, but im completely expecting a nice leak there... so a head rebuild might still be in the near future.... anyways, still waiting on my lift pump to get here before i try to fire it up.

 

man, and I thought murphy liked to pick on me....

 

Sorry to hear about the injector woes.

That Pyro probe seems like it is centered in the manifold.
That manifold is divided in the center.
Did you miss the center metal divider, or have to hog it out?

 

i guess i missed it, i have never even heard that before. are you sure its divided, when i shined a flashlight down in there to look for shavings, i dont remember seeing a divider.

 

I took my turbo off to drill my Pyro gauge.
I installed the probe in the back 3 cylinder half of the manifold.
I have a divided manifold on both my '85 crews with '89-'90 12Vs.
I also check a few of the 12V motors in my shop that had the turbos off and they all had divided manifolds.
I checked several more '89-'90 12vs and a few '94/'95 P-pumped 12V as well.
I have heard of some non divided manifolds, but are not sure what you would find them in.
Sounds like it worked out for you though.
It just looked close to centered.

 

yeah its pretty much dead centered. maybe the 91.5-93 trucks dont have them.

 

I don't have a '91.5-'93 12V here with the turbo off right now, or I would check.
I am sure someone here knows...

 

everyone i worked on had a divider.maybe your just off a hair to see it

 

guess i got lucky lol. i would have been mad if i hit that thing not knowing it was there.

 

My '93 is divided

 

So cross one more small project off the list. The hole in the floor from the transfer case shifter was letting in fumes the lady was complaining about. and the one time it nearly swallowed my phone was enough to make me finally do something about it.

So took a old dirt bike tube and some gorilla tape, and went to town.





and i ripped her favorite pair of PJ's, so i thought i'd try to be nice and use the fabric in the truck. dont think it made things any better. shes still ****** off haha.




when i get new carpet in the truck, i'll actually make this look nice, and get a trim piece cut out so it looks factory. but for now, at least i wont lose any cell phones out the bottom and the fumes should be cut to a minimum. hopefully she'll have less to complain about now haha.

 

and it still doesnt run.

i had it running for about a minute. but i had to hold the throttle wide open the whole time, and it would barely idle like that. soon as i let off, it would die. very very minimal/light smoke.

now i cant get it to fire again. im out of ideas and sick of this truck.