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Old Iron 2.0

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Truckman4life said:
Kinda a big PITA to return to stock. I just repaired one on a truck I flipped. The little hose that attaches to the breather in the air filter housing is originally a stepped hose and not easy to duplicate and the grommets in the valve covers were a biotch to find correct fitting ones. Mine had a taller air filter housing and a spacer to get it to fit the carb so I had to also weld an extension into that steel tube. I would change out the valve covers to aftermarket ones and put breathers in both and plug the pcv hose at the carb.
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I thought the PCV was pretty important for crankcase ventilation?!
 
handloader90 said:
Makes sense now.

That little Edelbrock air cleaner that I have has an opening on the bottom of it, about 5/8" or so in diameter. I'm guessing that's what it would hook up too.

Plan is to use a cheapo push-in breather.
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That's what i did on my Big block truck.
Like Truckman said the grommets are hard to find.
Hopefully yours that are on there will work...they get all hard and brittle.
 
max 02 said:
That's what i did on my Big block truck.
Like Truckman said the grommets are hard to find.
Hopefully yours that are on there will work...they get all hard and brittle.
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Hopefully the new breather that I buy will come with a matching grommet... that would make sense.
 
handloader90 said:
I thought the PCV was pretty important for crankcase ventilation?!
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As far as I know just having breathers on a stock engine will be ok. You just want the crankcase to not pressure up. I think the point of putting a vacuum on the crankcase is to help with ring sealing and drawing in the air/fuel into the cylinder but I might be wrong about that.
 
Truckman4life said:
As far as I know just having breathers on a stock engine will be ok. You just want the crankcase to not pressure up. I think the point of putting a vacuum on the crankcase is to help with ring sealing and drawing in the air/fuel into the cylinder but I might be wrong about that.
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I plan on keeping the stock valve covers, running a PCV valve and an aftermarket breather. I don't wanna take the PCV valve out of the mix and possibly have issues.
 
Get a better air cleaner. I watched someone pickup 30 horsepower to the rear wheels on a chassis dyno by ditching one of those stupid little air cleaners. You are not pressed for room. Can't you find a stock air cleaner localy?

Also, the stock valve cover grommets are not hard to find. They are at every parts store.

Martin
 
82355 said:
Get a better air cleaner. I watched someone pickup 30 horsepower to the rear wheels on a chassis dyno by ditching one of those stupid little air cleaners. You are not pressed for room. Can't you find a stock air cleaner localy?

Also, the stock valve cover grommets are not hard to find. They are at every parts store.

Martin
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That's what the parts store had on hand. They had a Mr. Gasket 14" air cleaner but I hate that brand with a passion.

It'll get swapped out but I needed something to keep trash from getting sucked into my carb.
 
Update on the truck.

Had some issues with the cross pin. Removed it with a holesaw. Used the good carrier out of the bad axle and slapped the good 3.42 ring gear on there.

Got the axle under the truck, bled the brakes.

Went to drive it off and the rear brakes were locked up... don't know why, I think I threw a set of drums on that were not original to the other brake components that I swapped over.

Put it in 4 Lo and revved it up real good and the brakes broke free after some parking lot action lol.

At this point I think I may be trying to install the 1 tons prior to my move. More money, parts and time that I have to invest that I really don't want to.

I'm gonna drive it around and see how it does before I start ordering parts.
 
Drove the truck around this morning and it drove well. It surprises me how smooth it idles and how well it drives with the massive vacuum leaks everywhere. When I straighten things up it should scream!

I never hooked my e-brake back up and the the lines that run front to back were dragging on the ground all morning.

Truck isn't too horrid looking.

Forgot to mention that I sheared off one of the U-Joint strap bolts in the pinion yoke on the rear axle. I dont feel like messing with it so I'm gonna have a shop swap yokes with the good one from the bad axle. First time I'll have let somebody else do work on a vehicle for me.

Forgot my Reagan bumper sticker and Chevy plate at home :cry:

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Been picking up little parts here and there.

I'm planning on shooting some kind of degreaser all over the engine bay, the whole engine and as much of the transmission as I am able to then pressure washing everything. Probably gonna do it this Friday after work, truck is in the parking lot at work so I don't have to worry about getting my driveway dirty lol, just need to bring my pressure washer with me.

Putting a new water pump, power steering pump and fuel pump seems way more fun when all of the old stuff isn't covered in gunk and grime.

Any recommendations on a good degreaser? I've heard of a Castrol product mentioned in the past that seemed to be pretty good.
 
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Castrol super clean, simple green, the Gunk stuff in the aerosol cans all work decent. Get the truck warmed up to operating temp and then let the sh!t soak in. Then pressure wash...
 
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