84 K20 "Ethel" Not an Sbc/NV4500/241C

[campfire]

Odd? California? Stupid?

These words often seem synonymous.

 

[skunked]

and rust free

 

[campfire]

Odd? California? Stupid?

These words often seem synonymous.

Reading back through this, that came off harsher than I meant it. CA isn't always stupid, just some of the rules.

 

[tRustyK5]

Nicely navigated! Nobody needs a visit from the "butt-hurt police"!

 

[charity case]

+1 vote California sucks. I can say that I live here

 

[Cucv_M1008]

I miss driving my diesel, the clatter is mellowing.

 

[bergerking]

Is that top left onr the shift pattern for your 465

 

[blazinzuk]

Now this must be posted

 

[sreidmx]

Dill pickle and his weenies.. Lol he was a good sport

 

[Karl Larsson]

Here's the chart, I was off a few bucks,
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In Sweden 30 years or older trucks are completly tax free so My -82 cost me zero bucks/year! Thats nice to find some pros to live in cold land

 

[sreidmx]

I made a mod! The seat had seen better days, there is foam missing from the driver side making it very bad on the back to drive, I got foam from Walmart and trimmed some to fit, I put a cardboard backer to stiffen up the seat base some and to give me some level base to work up to so the seat was level. The wife picked these out. I think they're super loud and crazy but it doesn't matter.. The 6.2 is all party and no work anyway. I'll be replacing this bench with the split bench from you wife's 92.. That seat is like new, I just need to make some bases for it to fit in this rig.

 

[sreidmx]

So I looked for the oil pressure sender. It appears to be blocked off??

 

[tRustyK5]

That's not the oil pressure sender. On a rig that needs vacuum there'd be a vac pump there driven by the cam. On your 6.2 that is a plug with a shaft engaging the cam gear and running the oil pump.

 

[campfire]

Rene is right. Oil sensor will be toward the back of the driver side of the block.

Look under the GP controller, right above the oil filter. Not particularly easy to spot if you're not looking for it.

 

[sreidmx]

Sorry the top right side is what I was referring to. It looks like an elbow. I'll check the oil filter area.

 

[campfire]

Sorry the top right side is what I was referring to. It looks like an elbow. I'll check the oil filter area.

Ya can't really get a good visual from the top. Try looking from the side.

 

[blazinzuk]

Your seat makes me dizzy

 

[sreidmx]

I put it on the lift, I think your both mistaken.. Unless you have 85s because the plug for the sender is right next to that port..
Here is the oil filter area,

If you look you can see the plug hanging there up by the block. So my thoughts are that someone had a bad sender and couldn't find one so they plugged it.. That's the only explanation I can come up with.




I checked the drivetrain pretty good because I have a gnarly growl from the middle to rear of the truck and kinda sounded like a bad rear end, it has to be the tcase it has a get distinct grumbly bearing sound almost like a bad throw out bearing.
I think this truck had a very very hard life, there is a lot of bent things.. Bent Trans x member, bend floor pan?? I don't even know how that happened.
There's about a mile of backlash in the front axle and half a mile in the rear, both are open diffs. In 4x the case doesn't have any backlash between the outputs so the chain doesn't see stretched, the front output moves a little and the yoke is toast, the rear isn't bad, I think if I put new u joints in it will make it new again.



Bent oil pan I think I showed early on.

Anyone know if an np241 is a bolt in affair? From my reading I need a 32 spline which would be in 88-91 trucks with a th400 or 465, if I am going to swap id like that extra reduction.

 

[campfire]

Sender should be above the 3 oil ports, IIRC.

But I'm 2000 miles away from my truck. Not able to check it out right now.

 

[campfire]

Yes, any round-pattern 32-spline case will work