Thread: 1972 Chevy K30 Longhorn Build

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Originally Posted by 34_40

4 degrees??? UM.... you're gonna need a bigger heater! I hope it stays out there too!

What'cha building for Christmas?

Sunday was a high of 0*, with a -14* low. Saturday night I finally started putting plastic on our windows. What a big difference that makes on some old windows.

We built a bench, my wife has been crocheting all kinds of hats, scarfs, ear warmers, booties for little ones, and we've got some furniture re purposing to do to. I put pics in the home made gift thread just a minute ago of the bench.

Last night at work I got a call from my wife and she was telling me her truck was chugging bad and wasn't running right. I thought oh great. The pos mini van she can't drive because it has skim module issues and the blower motor crapped out. The 95 crew cab Ford I baught I still don't have the title for, so we can't do anything with it... I took my daughter to school this morning and came back and fired her truck up. Sure enough, another injection line broke. Luckily I have timeserts left, and I have some good used lines from the silver dodge I just converted to a P-pump. So I swapped a #4 injection line on it, fixed a return line that was dripping fuel, and found and fixed the issue with the inop cruise control.

Then I had time to install the reman turbo onto another 99 Dodge I got in. I have to get exhaust for it, install it, and then it will be done.

The guy from the machine shop has had no luck getting the broken extractor/bolt out of the block. They tried some chemical sand last night and it really didn't do anything. He tried drilling tonight with no luck. So now it might be coming all back apart to go to the machine shop to get placed on a machine to get drilled out. But, I did get the truck's fuel tank steam cleaned, and installed the new 5/8" pick up tube. There was a lot of gunk in that tank and the stock suction filter/extension was off the stock suction tube floating in the debris. Haha

Not sure what to say Ryan.. I'm searching for the bright side.

It keeps getting better. Last night I was driving home from work and I got caught behind some slow pokes next to a semi. Once the semi turned off the road I went around the pokes. I ran it a little hard but not thrashing it a few times having fun after that. This morning I took it to go meet a buddy to trade some parts with, and when I starting accelerating on the highway, I noticed was the truck was way doggy. Literally no power. I figured it was low on fuel. But the more I thought about it, the more I was thinking lack of fuel in the tank wasn't the issue. It wasn't coughing, bucking, nothing odd. After I met my buddy Dave, I went and put fuel in the truck. It took 7 gallons. Yeah, I figured it wasn't low fuel. This tank holds 16 gallons. So I took my middle child to school and went home and changed the fuel filters hoping that was it. I didn't see anything obvious but the fuel didn't look green like it normally does. My nose is semi plugged, but the fuel smelled like diesel, but not as strong as normal. I drove it to work and it's the same. Runs ok until about half throttle and then it doesn't do much. It'll run highway speeds, the engine doesn't heat up, still has normal oil pressure.

I need to put some gauges on it and see what is going on. First I thought maybe one of the turbos is locked up but they sound the same. Also, if that was the case it would be smoking black from lack of air. Same thing if the air filter was plugged/restricted. It will not hardly smoke. I foot braked it to see what would happen and it'll barely puff any smoke. Normally if you do that it will put some out. (Which I try to avoid any how) So, I'm leaning towards a weak lift pump, bad/watered down fuel, or I'm not sure yet. I'll see if I can put some make shift gauges on it for the trip home.

At least it still made it to work and I didn't have to drive the pos mini van. Haha

Had an electrical issue where truck started great, drove fine but lost power under excelleration. Turns out if battery is running low, by use accellerator, it dropped the battery just enough to starve the computer of power. New battery, ran great until same thing, after that new alternator fixed the problem, probably not your issue but worth keeping in the back of your head .

I'm guessing it's something simple. (hopefully) This engine is mechanical and I checked the fuel shut off solenoid to make sure it is pulling all the way up. It is/was. I'm going to check for boost leaks tonight. The way I have the afc set up, the injection pump won't start fueling hard until the afc foot gets moved allowing the governor to pull the rack in the injection pump to move the plungers to meter more fuel to the injectors. The afc needs to get 25-30psi to do this. So, if it has a boost leak, this could be the issue. I don't hear a severe boost leak, but that's a place I'm going to look to.

Um... Ryan? AFC????

Originally Posted by 34_40

Um... Ryan? AFC????

Aneroid fuel control. It controls the pre-boost fueling on the governor of the injection pump. The smoke controlling device basically.

I did get lucky, and it was the afc line. The top fitting was on but the bottom fitting had came off. I put it back on and tightened it back up and it's good to go.

I hope you all had a very Merry Christmas! We did and it has been super busy.

Today I dropped the 7.3 off at a machine shop and the guy is very hopeful and thinks he can get it out without having to disassemble the engine. I really hope so.

Thanks for the info. I'm glad for you that it was an easy fix.
Our Christmas was great, we had 22 family members stuffed into this little 1400 sq ft house. LOL.. there were people everywhere!
Just had an e-mail from Roger Spears and he was about the same, all the family was over and they had a great day.

I'll keep a good thought on the broken fastener, sounds like they've done'em before so your headache will soon be gone. 8-)

No word on the broken fastener yet but that's okay. I've got other stuff to finish up. The exhaust is going on the 99 Dodge and I'm going to be bringing a project of my own home this weekend. My brother got my Dad a smoker for Christmas but it was missing grates. Dad was going to buy them online but the only thing he can find close to it's sizes were going to be $200 before shipping. I told him that was nuts. I sent him to the metal shop and he got 52' the first time. I've used all that up and I'll finish them up when the rest of the metal gets in.

I finally had time to get over and finish the barn door job on my mom's horse barn. There's still some stuff to finish up on the inside of the doors. My main concern was getting the tin all back on the barn and reattached. Of course, naturally it rained for 3/4s of the day yesterday when I did it. At least it was 35* until the wind started blowing.

I used the 72 to haul the 40 home last night. I had to have my mom follow me because I still haven't hooked up my trailer wiring..........

Looks good, I like those galvanized barns. We fixed up an old feed shed into a garden shed for my mom a few years ago. It's nice to do different things one in a while.

Originally Posted by 53 Chevy5

Looks good, I like those galvanized barns. We fixed up an old feed shed into a garden shed for my mom a few years ago. It's nice to do different things one in a while.

Last fall we tore down a rather large lean to and that is where the metal for the doors came from. I'm going to use more of it and replace the cheap fiber board on the front of it. This old bard only had sliding doors on it when we moved here. Most of them were rotten and junk. This building was supposed to be our shop when I was growing up. Dad never poured the concrete and mom won the conflict and it became the horse barn. It would have made a nice shop. Oh well, it has made a really nice horse barn. I can't complain too much. We used to store square bales in the other end but now they feed round bales so there is an open end and I get to use that for storage. That's where the vette is resting now.

What's with the rock piles (on either side of the doors) if I can ask?

Do you get mice in the car with the Bales in there?