yea and im tryin to buy anohter crew cab dually for the price of scrap. so we shall see wat happens.

and its oct 22nd wat a glorious day...

 

Another Franken Truck!

Must be your birthday.......?

 

Happy Birthday Nick!

 

Well shoot, if we have a meet in a heated shop then I'd be up for a dual tank drop session (my fuel sender hasn't worked since April last year).
Without the heat though I could be hard pressed, I'm getting to where I'm like Charlie. Don't like the cold, could be something about me waking up this morning and my bathroom was 53*, either that or its something about being a DTR chapter president.

 

The real test is whether it was colder in your bathroom or outside.

We had a trailer at the deer lease one year that was showing 25* inside and 30* outside. I think it might have been missing some insulation. LOL

In any case, I'd much rather work in the cool weather. I was in the garage/driveway yesterday in shorts and a t-shirt pulling the starter. So nice to work without sweating.

 

I was born cold and have never quiet warmed up.

 

It was 53* in the bathroom this morning, 41* outside. When I went through at lunch it was 51* inside and 62* outside. I opened the door and felt a chill.
What I need to do is get a hold of someone who can check my furnace, don't know when it last worked, I bought it in July and the owner had it rented out for a while. I'm hoping there is a switch that I'm not seeing and isn't listed in the instructions.

 

yea 22nd was me birthday and the crew cab is gonna be a new and improved frankentruck i think yall will approve of

 

Don't get too fancy, or you'll have to that the "Franken-" out of the name.

 

Matt, make the t'stat call for heat & watch the furnace burner control to see if the spark ignition module locks out on the flame sensor or not.


Nick - maybe your new truck could be Son of Frankenstein !

 

um no not son of frankenstein. its frankentruck and itll be part of frankentruck. 6 door long bed anymone?

 

Getting my truck back on the road tomorrow! So I don't have to repeat myself, here is the story.

After 5 yrs, my firerings failed. Small piece from #3 ring and a 1" piece of #4 ring broke off and bounced around inside the cylinders. Many small craters and two small chips off the piston tops resulted. Also had serious cracks in the head on valve seats and injector ports, probably from the same debris.
No damage to cylinder walls!!! Did minor smoothing to piston tops... to prevent carbon build up and bgt a new head ($1200.00). Had it decked and O-ringed and used a Marine, .020 over gasket.

Also turned out my top turbo was leaking at the bearing seal and the compressor blades were chewed up badly. Replaced w/ new turbos. This problem was self induced - used a racing filter that should only have been used at the track. Expensive lesson learned too late. With all the dirt roads I drive.... just let too much 'stuff' through. Going back to the PRO Guard 7 (full time) that comes with the BD Twins.

I got 5 years, some serious street playing and 223 1/4 mile passes out of my setup before any trouble (oh yeah, and one sled pull).
Guess I did alright...especially since my Firering job was suspect from the beginning... as I have probably told everyone before.

Traded Mach 6's for Mach 4's. Daily drivability on an automatic is better w/ 4's, and I never did get closr to the added 70 hp from the 6's.
With the Adrenaline and H20/meth I should still be over 550 hp........... and good to go for the next five years.

RJ

 

WOW RJ,

ps. check out our live school webcam of our turbine erection.
i am so fascinated by this....

http://172.20.10.220/view/index.shtml

 

UM......what? OK...someone had to do it...and yes im 5!

Good to see you're getting the rig back RJ!

 

Hollar at me if your driving by tomorrow afternoon... Maybe hook up for lunch or something... Have exam from 10-12 and that is it really.