Yeah, there's a lot of wiring on the side of the CR's.

The good thing is that all the connections (except the cam and crank sensors) can only plug into one thing. And the cam and crank sensors are on seperate lines, so you can really mess them up.

And, I label EVERYTHING as it comes off. Makes reassembly much easier.

 

Here's today's progress.

I'm Friggin Stoked! The inside of the engine was IMMACULATE!

The only areas that showed ANY wear were the front and rear main bearings.

No need for any machine work on the block, pistons or crank. Only thing I'm doing to those is getting the crank balanced and the pistons coated.

Everything else looked great. The cylinders were in great shape; nice cross-hatch and no scuffing. The valves all look good. The seats all look good.

Time to get evil.....

 

I cannot believe how clean that is man. Whats going on for the coating?

 

looking good, i love it when they come apart and look like that, i have tore down a few engines with 300,000+ miles that looked brand new, i really love these engines, big thumbs up for cummins!!

i got mine fired tonight hopefully after about a couple hours in the morning she will be back on the road, just need to run intercooler and twins piping, bumper, a couple loose ends, and a head retorque, and done... finally, i hope...

 

Ceramic tops and teflon skirts.

 

I couldn't believe how little wear it showed after the last two years of abuse it's taken.

I mean the ONLY parts that have ANY noticeable wear were the front and rear main bearings.....and this is after throwing 72 lbs of boost through it.

I gotta say, I'm MORE than impressed with how it's held up.

Now it's time to make it stronger.

 

The head is all cleaned up and ready to ship out. It looks really good, so do the valves.

I gotta say, I couldn't be happier with what I'm finding in it so far considering the crap I've done to it.













These are parts of the rotating assembly.

The pictures of the connecting rods ARE NOT of a broken rod. Those are the cracked cap rods that are the weak link in the rotating assembly. These are why I'm swapping them for 12V rods.

The big shiney cylinders are the piston wrist pins. They're MASSIVE. I put them next to my phone so you could get a size estimate.























Here's some pics of pistons themselves. This afternoon I started cleaning them up to get them ready to send out for coating.

Rings were in good shape.....



Piston skirts looked almost brand new.....



Crowns and bowls looks nearly perfect. No signs of melting or burning.....



Wrist Pin bore.....



Here you can see the passages for the oil to get to the bowl and crown from the oil squirters.....



The $20K+ pile of parts.....

 

man that is one nasty rig bro!

 

Thanks brother.

She's gettin' there.

Today was a slow day.....

Got the head packed up and put on the pallet. It's goin out tomorrow.



Need to do a little more cleaning on the pistons before I send those out for coating.

Need to clean the crank and steam clean the block.

Got the 12V rods, HD rod bolts, lower gasket set, upper gaskets, main and crank bearings ordered today.

 

Took the block out and started cleaning it up today.

Got all the heavy crud off, now it's soaking in WD4 overnight and tomorrow it get steam cleaned.

This before I started cleaning it.