Ive been doin a little wrenching and drinkin some barley pops in the evenings this week and have gotten the truck a little closer to driveable... I hooked the hydraboost lines back up, installed new alt and P/S Belts, hoseclamps, rad cap, and replaced all of the vacuum lines...
It doesnt run bad but the reason my father in law quit driving it was because it was smoking pretty bad... the thing that puzzles me is that when you first start it up it smokes out of the drivers side bank of cylinders only, it has dual exhaust with no xover pipe so I know that its coming from that side.
Once its run for about 10 minutes or so it doesnt really smoke at all out of either side... Im kinda confised about this because I would have figured that if it was rings, valves, or valve seals that it would smoke out of both sides... i mean what would make one side of the engine wear out faster than the other?
One last thought I had about it was that the drivers side is the manifold where the exhaust heat valve deal is that blocks the downpipe when the engine is cold and I was wondering if that could be the reason that the drivers side smokes?
OK enough of my babble... heres a couple pics... one of the pile of vac hoses I pulled off and another of my first performance mod.... I mean if stickers work for the ricers then why wont they work for full size pickups... haha
A CROWER sticker must be at least worth 10-15 Horsepower...
Thanks for any and all input
l8r
-j-rOd