Her Fergavs, All I did was take the valve covers, and intake cover and took them to my buddys Hot Rod Semi Shop, and had them polished. I am not shure but I think they are all aluminum.

I didn't even realize it till I was talking to a friend of mine about getting the valve covers polished, and he noticed that the intake cover was aluminum, He said "you may as well get that polished too",,.... Thanks Man,..!

Turned out good, I am glad he noticed that.

I am tearing in to the truck this week, and will be pulling out the 7.3 next Saturday and may be able to set the Cummins in if I get my torque converter.

Keep ya posted..

 

So a quick update,... I have been dealing with a bad 4 letter word here a lot this season,.. SNOW!.. We have been getting 6 inches about every 3 days latley. When we get snow I loose a day just plowing, moving cars, and clearing the lot. So I am behind on all of my projects.

One thing leads to another,.. Droopy the Plow Truck has a broken part in the steering column. Well with all the snow it HAS to be fixed. I have an extra steering column that will be installed in Big Ed, so I removed the column out of Ed to use as parts to fix Droopy.

I am removing the column shift to install a floor shifter in the center counsol. so the new steering column is from a 5 speed. Since I am putting in a floor shifter I decided to remove all of the interior.

Since I removed the interior, I decided to install sound deadening material, and what the heck, may as well install carpet.

Under the truck the driveshaft's are removed, and the trans T-Case and Gearvendors are unhooked and ready to be moved back 4" . Should be a little easier than originoally thought. I hope to have it moved back by Wednessday.

I have had one area of concern, and that is the flywheel to torqueconverter adapter, known as the Wave Ring (see pic) It has held up for 20K miles on a stock Cummins, however I am probablly doubling the HP and TQ and the wave ring looks a little flimsy for that. So I am having a ring made out of high tenseled steel at my buddy's machine shop. That should be done on Thursday.


You can see the wave ring on bolted to the flywheel in the oroginal post, and here is the rest of the interior carnage,..