I'd love to but the truck is up in SF in Rick's hands. I'm **** about things as you are so I know what you mean. And this is why I'm not building it as it would take me forever because I would most likely bathe the block, pistons, rings, valves, etc... in diesel and scrub it clean until it shined again. But I just want it to run and run right.

 

Thanks . . . I miss that engine.

 

Good ole #7

 

Hey, Julien - Does Rick have any theories as to why all of the oil fouling on the cylinder that blew? I didn't know that a blown head gasket could cause oil fouling.

 

Ummm he'd have to answer that but I drove I'm guessing 3000+ miles with the gasket blown. Gave the engine plenty of time to burn up all the oil/water mixture running through the engine into a nice carbon build up!

 

Did it not start running hot? Everytime I blew a Head gasket (ford engines) it would start heating up....

 

Nope...ran pretty good to tell you the truth. Only thing I ever noticed was throttle response sucked and power was down, but it was hard to tell because I was always babying it.

 

I had the same symptoms...drove like crap in O/D, with sloppy throttle response, rich mixture. Thats a good idea that uv got oil in the mixture I've discovered....that and oil coming off the breather!

 

Here is an update for you all.

Heads and parts are back on the truck as of last night. Waiting on a new intake elbow that Julien wanted and to test the Meth injection to make sure it works still.

The bad thing we also found was the pushrod lengths were wrong. He has adjustable rockers, so when they chose the rod length, the rocker bottoms out on the stand studs. I added .050 to the length and got a nice moving rocker arm with the correct amount of preload on the lifter now. You could not put enough preload on it before. So this should help the truck some more too. The one thing I dont like is the valve pattern, it was tough to decide on how much rod to run because of where the rocker hits the valve. Its as good as it will get now.

Rick

 

Why not switch back to stock rockers? Everyone seems to have good luck and he isnt running super stiff springs or a crazy cam. Stock rockers with the Harlan mod seems like it would cure alot of the problems you are describing, it only money