RyanMerrick's 1997 C2500 RCLB Build Thread

[Sampuppy1]

I spent two days sitting on the core support scraping baked on crud off my piston tops. I couldn't see any aluminum on any of the pistons and some I couldn't even tell they had valve relief cuts. The results of being hunched over with a mini screwdriver, mineral spirits and steel wool were this.

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[RyanMerrick]

Thats rough...worth it, but still no fun

 

[Sampuppy1]

Oh so worth it. Between the piston cleaning, new valve seals, tune up, cleaned intakes and heads, new stainless shorties and cats, new o2 sensor, midpipes that don't leak, and a clean air filter this truck runs better than it ever has while I've owned it. I bought it getting 10mpg. Manifold cracked and it dropped to 7. Now I get 14 if I can stay off the damn skinny pedal. That's impossible now because it's so much fun to drive. And in the pic the lifter valley looked like that when taken apart. I cleaned off a light brown varnish off the tan parts. The rest I tried scraping withal finger nail and all I got was clean oil on my fingers. Thank god for synthetic oil.

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[RyanMerrick]

Hauled a sports car for my son today! Only cost $10

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[RyanMerrick]

Fuel Pump Replacement

The truck was having starting issues, caused by fuel pressure dropping immediately after turning the key to prime (55psi at first, then dropping to 25psi). This caused excessive cranking until the engine would finally sputter and start up.

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Delphi HP10001

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[RyanMerrick]

Frame Restoration Continued...

Finally started making progress on the frame

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[twomanymontes]

Been there done that! Lots of fun taking the bed off isn't it?

 

[RyanMerrick]

Nope!

 

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[Sampuppy1]

Finally started making progress on the frame

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Lucky. Surface rust. I'd wire wheel the bottom of the bed and line it along with the wheel wells.

The truck was having starting issues, caused by fuel pressure dropping immediately after turning the key to prime (55psi at first, then dropping to 25psi). This caused excessive cranking until the engine would finally sputter and start up.

Parts Used:
Delphi HP10001

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Glad to see you solved this one.

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