Diesel swap!

 

So ya tell'n me I have 50k to get a stroker built for my truck
Damn, that's going to come around quicker than I'd like... best start saving.

 

What temp stat ya got in it? Wouldn't be the first time the parts store sold a new part, that was bad, right out of the box..... (or mislabeled.)

Consider doing your valve seals.

 

192. Tested them all and they all worked as they should.

 

Well I got the truck to heat up now. All I to do was completely block the rad with cardboard. Probably because the fan is always on full blast. Who knows.


And it blows smoke when I lay into it. Looked down the throttle body and it is very crustacious, wet and oily looking so looks the plenum is blown again.



Just more reason to get a short block!!!

Damn thing still runs like a champ tho :/

 

I gots to quit buying Shell gasoline, the truck hates it, man I get some **** poor mileage with that crap.

I originally said BP but it's actually a Shell station.....

 

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!


Bears @ Packers tonight at 8:25!

 

BP used to be Standard oil.

Back when I first started driving in the early '70's, I had a '65 Ford Fairlane with the 200 ci straight six in it.

I decided to get a Standard oil credit card because so long as you kept your balance paid up you got 'free' towing and jump starts if you needed it, there were a few other perks that came with being a card holder. Kinda like having an AAA card.

Since I had the card I would occasionally charge some fuel with it. That helped me get to work some weeks when I was short on cash.

Soon I was buying my gas exclusively at Standard gas stations.

A few weeks into it my car started running like crap so I decided maybe a tune up was in order. When I pulled the plugs they were encrusted with some kind of fluffy looking but really hard yellowish crap. Whatever it was it cleaned off easily but it did not stay off.

I was pulling the plugs at least once a week to clean them. I thought maybe it was the plugs themselves so I bought new ones. Again in a week or so they would be fouled with this crap.

I bought a new set of plugs and started buying gas at other gas stations.

That did the trick. I drove for a few months using anything but Standard gas and had no problems. Then just to make sure I got a few tanks of Standard again and sure enough the fouling problem came back.

I had almost convinced myself it was just the station right in town so I got the Standard gas at stations miles away and still had the problem.

It did not matter if I got the top grade Standard gas or the lowest grade the problem persisted unless I got my gas somewhere else.

These days I buy most of my gas wherever it is the least expensive which is usually at a Murphy gas station at a Walmart store. We go to Walmart a few times a month to get our meds and you get at least 3 cents off per gallon if you use a walmart rechargeable card.

 

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Some pics from the new Bourne movie (with Matt Damon), filming in DC....

 

Stew,

Where did you wind up moving too?