What have you done to your square lately??

[justhorns]

Hmm. Used to have 45 psi oil pressure.

 

[JamesSam]

”All aboard.. Next stop Bismarck”
Safe travels old friend

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Dang I just keep seeing that truck on here. It's a nice one. I hope she makes someone really happy.

 

[JamesSam]

Gotta be honest, I like the lumber rack on. Gives it a different look. Looks good without it also.

Looks great with or without!

 

[hoagster]

Got all my pedals in and now I'm working on the wiring mess but after looking at diagrams it really wasn't a mess. Only one 2 pin plug that I couldn't figure out light green think it maybe the dash speaker plug?

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Only need to fix the oem radio connections and the fuel tank level that was patched into for the added aftermarket fuel tank. I'm happy it was just my dad and me through out the years minimal cut and splice.

 

[JamesSam]

Hmm. Used to have 45 psi oil pressure.

Seen mine go way down and way up and have replaced the oil pressure sending unit. Guage reads fine lately but I am always looking at these negative read guages with inaccuracy slightly in the back of my mind. I will say when I got under my truck to find the unit I needed to replace it seems to be one from an earlier 80's model but when I finally tracked one down and replaced its been reading as great as the 87 dash let's me believe

 

[FireTruck1984]

Dang I just keep seeing that truck on here. It's a nice one. I hope she makes someone really happy.

I received a message from the new owner, He’s thrilled !
I miss it, but life moves on. I also have the K1500 so I still get my 4 wheel therapy.

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[JamesSam]

I replaced the heater core on the truck and did a write up on it in the heating / a/c section. Job went well, I suppose the hardest thing was just remembering how the box came apart.

So this morning I did.... I don't really want to call it a detail, but good cleaning at least. Under the hood and the interior.

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Lookin' pretty good, some details I didn't get to but that's ok.

Found a carwash that I really like. It's not the newest or the nicest, but for $8 (inc. sales tax) she comes out of the tunnel nice and clean and on the $8 wash they don't spray on any kind of wax. I really hate that, so many automatic washes even on the "economy" wash spray wax all over the rig which messes with wipers and since I use a polymer "wax" on the truck I don't need that stuff sprayed all over the truck. The two car washes near the shop are both over $10 for their economy washes.

@SirRobyn0 ,
May I ask for details on how you handle/clean your engine bay? I bought Purple Power a while ago and know that you can basically spray down the whole bay and spray clean. I have been really hesitant to do this after hearing that Purple Power can make your serpentine belts squeak/squeal. Well honestly I tried spraying down the engine bay once after I covered the air intake and pulleys/belts with plastic bags and felt really wierd about it, like I would hurt something. Anyway, do you have any specific steps you take and/or tools you use for cleaning your engine bay that you might pass on to this novice? Or should I just squirt it all down with the purple stuff and spray it out with the garden hose?

 

[JamesSam]

Finally got nailed by Covid, 102 fevers and poor sleep with body aches. So I assessed why the drivers door had a wiggle, and wasn’t shutting right anymore. I was expecting a battle with door pins or something like that, turns out the lower pin just wiggled itself up. Pounded it back in and it shuts good as new. After that I just sat in the truck for a while because it’s my happy place. Tomorrow if my fever breaks, we are going for a ride.

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You are gonna be ok. Take a ride.

 

[Ricko1966]

Hmm. Used to have 45 psi oil pressure.

Not sure what you're telling us,asking us? If there's a problem or suspected problem please give us some info.

 

[SirRobyn0]

@SirRobyn0 ,
May I ask for details on how you handle/clean your engine bay? I bought Purple Power a while ago and know that you can basically spray down the whole bay and spray clean. I have been really hesitant to do this after hearing that Purple Power can make your serpentine belts squeak/squeal. Well honestly I tried spraying down the engine bay once after I covered the air intake and pulleys/belts with plastic bags and felt really wierd about it, like I would hurt something. Anyway, do you have any specific steps you take and/or tools you use for cleaning your engine bay that you might pass on to this novice? Or should I just squirt it all down with the purple stuff and spray it out with the garden hose?

My answer is it depends on how bad it is. It is much, much easier to keep an engine bay clean than to try to scrape years of build up off. So for my monthly (I don't really keep track but roughly about once a month), underhood cleanings I use a couple of rags and a product called silk shine by Chemical guys. We get it in a gallon container for the shop. It's really meant for interior detailing, it's great to clean, shine and protect vinyl, rubber, plastic that sort of thing, but it doesn't streak and I do use it on the interior too. So it'll shine and clean the core support, inner fender wells, air cleaner housing, hoses ect. Pretty much anything that isn't cloth or glass. And it doesn't leave a sticky residue like armor all will, so it doesn't attract dust and dirt.

So if I have a really greasy engine bay, I'll pull the air cleaner housing off, bag the carburetor, bag the distributor, coat the engine in degreaser then hit it with the pressure washer. I wouldn't hesitate to use purple power personally I'd just try to keep it off the rubber. Any kind of degreaser is not going to do anything rubber any good, but I think when a guy is rinsing the engine you have a greater chance of "washing" oil and grease onto the belt than the PP damaging it unless you leave it soak for a really long time.

To be honest my old 305 is not 100% tight at the oil pan or the rear main, so whenever I'm under it, at least at every oil change I wipe down what I can to reduce build up overtime.

I never pressure wash or use degreaser on my truck, but that's because I don't let it get that bad. But if I bought a truck that needed it, I wouldn't hesitate to degrease and pressure wash one time, then maintain with regular wipe downs. So when I'm doing my wipe down I'll spray a good amount of the silk shine on a rag and just go about wiping everything in sight with the rag, I'll go though a couple rags.

If you don't have a lot of long term build up you might try wiping down first. I use to just use WD-40 for the underhood wipe downs so if you wanted to use something you likely already have or can get easy you might try that.

 

[Drauka99]

Lets see, got the battery tray relocated to the driver's side. Mounted the lower radiator support from the donor vehicle, got the mechanical fan, shroud and radiator mocked up in place to make mounting brackets for the top side. Also got the overflow tank mounted in place. The stock LS coolant hoses all fit with this location as well so that's a plus.

I bit the bullet on some shorty stainless steel headers finally, so those will go in this weekend. I bought a couple different flavors of power steering hoses to get those tied into the stock C-10 steering box (this is going to make me remove all the mocked up radiator and shroud, that's the story of this swap... install and remove multiple times before its really done). I also opt'd for putting the oil pressure sender on the oil cooler bypass on the oil pan for the stock C-10 gauge. And get the fuel pump power and gauge wires ran and setup the ODB2 and CEL in the cab. I need to get that done and then I can start tying in all the wires to make this thing run. Still a way to go.

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[PrairieDrifter]

”All aboard.. Next stop Bismarck”
Safe travels old friend

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ND?

 

[JamesSam]

My answer is it depends on how bad it is. It is much, much easier to keep an engine bay clean than to try to scrape years of build up off. So for my monthly (I don't really keep track but roughly about once a month), underhood cleanings I use a couple of rags and a product called silk shine by Chemical guys. We get it in a gallon container for the shop. It's really meant for interior detailing, it's great to clean, shine and protect vinyl, rubber, plastic that sort of thing, but it doesn't streak and I do use it on the interior too. So it'll shine and clean the core support, inner fender wells, air cleaner housing, hoses ect. Pretty much anything that isn't cloth or glass. And it doesn't leave a sticky residue like armor all will, so it doesn't attract dust and dirt.

So if I have a really greasy engine bay, I'll pull the air cleaner housing off, bag the carburetor, bag the distributor, coat the engine in degreaser then hit it with the pressure washer. I wouldn't hesitate to use purple power personally I'd just try to keep it off the rubber. Any kind of degreaser is not going to do anything rubber any good, but I think when a guy is rinsing the engine you have a greater chance of "washing" oil and grease onto the belt than the PP damaging it unless you leave it soak for a really long time.

To be honest my old 305 is not 100% tight at the oil pan or the rear main, so whenever I'm under it, at least at every oil change I wipe down what I can to reduce build up overtime.

I never pressure wash or use degreaser on my truck, but that's because I don't let it get that bad. But if I bought a truck that needed it, I wouldn't hesitate to degrease and pressure wash one time, then maintain with regular wipe downs. So when I'm doing my wipe down I'll spray a good amount of the silk shine on a rag and just go about wiping everything in sight with the rag, I'll go though a couple rags.

If you don't have a lot of long term build up you might try wiping down first. I use to just use WD-40 for the underhood wipe downs so if you wanted to use something you likely already have or can get easy you might try that.

Cool. Thanks @SirRobyn0 !

 

[FireTruck1984]

ND?

Yep ND

 

[Camar068]

I bought a couple different flavors of power steering hoses to get those tied into the stock C-10 steering box

Just in case you don't know, you can take the fitting off the back of your old pump and put it in the LS pump and use stock hoses.

Nice looking install.