I forgot about the armydiller shell I found a couple of years back. Can they climb chain link fence? They are really possum on a half shell.

 

In Texas they have a man who's job is to move the dead armadillo to a new location every night. Believe it or not armadillos are mammals.

 

took the Old Girl to work today.

The new Girl favorite ride.

changed and painted a new minty box last fall.

 

Ordered the crank seal/sleeve kit from Autozone. Wanted to get a KDP tab. Can't get one til next week. I think it was already done. Gooshed RTV on the timing cover seams. Someone was in there. Going to bump the timing 1 tooth when the THD IP goes on.

 

If it hasn't been done yet and you don't get a KDP "kit" before you button things up, there's several homemade options if you search here: coat hanger "tab", peening, etc etc. It doesn't take very much to hold it in from what I understand.

 

Trust me just tap the KDP in if it needs it then hit the inner bore with a small hole punch and distort the surface enough that the dowel with not slide back out.
Cheap, fast and efficient.

The KDP kits are a waste of money in my eyes.

 

Someone was in this timing case before me. I had grainy pics of the dowel pin area. I deleted them. There was either a casting flaw or something chipped it. There is a possible screwed in replacement. Hard to tell. I might have seen threads? Maybe not. We were going to make a tab out of a sawzall blade. Mosquitos were eating us up. The rainm before sunrise on Saturday was baking the humidity up pretty high. Both of us have bad backs, etc. It was 9:30pm when we quit. Yesterday was a washout with the rain, grocery shopping, and running my GF home (2hrs down and back). I am going out after breakfast and installing the injector lines. I need to order to a gasket for the case. I am going to spend $8 on a KDP tab just to cover my ***. The pump is in.

Eric @THD locked the pump at 1 tooth advanced. Error, or on purpose? I was going to advance it 1 tooth anyway. Proof below someone was in there. That was with the FB market place junk pump installed I did last year.

 

IN the process of changing vaccum brake booster and MC today. Getting a persistant leak that I have traced to the vac booster. meh- it's about time I am thinking.

 

Did you disturb any vacuum lines? Check for cracked liness, busted boots, ETC.

 

Installed the HVLP pump over the weekend. Not a bad job with the "kit" from THD. Getting the new hard line attached at the filter head was a bit of a PITA. I did end up losing one of the new banjo bolt seals and had to reuse one from the old line. It may possibly be causing a leak so I'll have to fight that line again after I source a replacement.

don't know if the new pump actually did something or is all mental, but the truck seems to have received a performance boost. Feels like it is accelerating faster and running at a high MPH for the same approximate throttle position. Doubt its anything beyond my perception but happy with the upgrade overall.

 

I agree that I feel a bit more power is available after adding the HVLP pump. I am thinking the VE pump like the extra PSI and fuel volume available.

 

There is 2 different piston pumps.. I bought the smaller one by accident. I bought the springs to make my own HVLP . Got the pump, line, gaskets and spacer from Poorman Diesel. Never installed it.

Not sure what THD sells theirs for. Poorman now sells the entire kit for $219+ shipping. I actually bought a Carter intank pump from Carquest/Adavanceauto. It does 18lbs@36gph. I pulled the original intank assembly and dropped that in.

I checked the pressure with a gauge. THD IP max fuel installed hopefully running this weekend.

Eric @THD said the shat seal will handle the pressure.

 

KInda how it went down- I replaced all the brake lines and slave cylinders out back, along with new calipers up front. The lines were rusty, Still losing fluid, and it is clearly comeing from teh brake booster itself, cheapto fix.

 

Swapped the metal leaking master cylinder for a used [well loved] plastic capped one from an old '92 Ramcharger on my old '85 white W350 crew cab.

Batter brake pedal feel and it doesn't leak fluid EVERYWHERE.

 

I did my first HPLV pump a long time ago. It was the Delphi pump. Not as much volume, but still easily outdid the diaphragm pump and I never starved for fuel. Later I went to a 2nd gen pump with the low-pressure spring. The only thing I noticed between the diaphragm and the piston pumps was that I didn't lose power on the top because the supply couldn't keep up. I still have the Delphi as a back up.