Glittery oil

[1984RESTOMOD]

You don't have to drive a Ranger to hang out...

Are we including therapy sessions in the estimate?

I need time to lick my wounds for sure.

 

[fastpakr]

Honestly most of it wasn't so bad. I took a break for a while when the initial engine build blew up and parked the truck. When I eventually got the thing back together and discovered I'd mixed up the camshafts, even that wasn't a breaking point. I just started unbolting crap, made an adjustment to the core support so I could pull the cam straight out the front, etc.

Where I almost lost it was after a couple of really long days when I went to remove the crank pulley one last time on too little sleep. Somehow I set up the harmonic balancer puller without the nose piece that centers it in the crank opening. The pulley came off, but it left a debris field of powdered metal chunks where the threading for the crank bolt used to be. That was the moment I sank to the ground and just sat there, ready to burn the truck to the ground because I didn't have it in me to pull the whole engine back out. Again.

A massive 90* rented drill, tap set, and an upsized crank bolt successfully rescued the truck from the jaws of defeat.

 

[1984RESTOMOD]

Picking up a bottle of motor flush, oil filter, case of beer and filler for my left hand cigrit on the way home today. May the games begin and the most persistent prevail

 

[Blmpkn]

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In theory there at least wouldn't be any machine work involved since it hasn't ran... as long as this isn't one of the clown outfits that only bores the cylinders that need cleaned up and other stupid crap like that.

I've learned that Iowa apparently does TWO things good over my time here.. breeding corn AND meme-ers

 

[1984RESTOMOD]

hold the phone folks, in that pic the rocker looks dangerously close to the bracket underneath it.
hopefully thats just camera angle.

 

[85_Ranger4x4]

Yeah, it would take some effort to get the rocker to touch that bracket.

 

[pjtoledo]

it was camera angle. I edited my post.

 

[19Walt93]

Picking up a bottle of motor flush, oil filter, case of beer and filler for my left hand cigrit on the way home today. May the games begin and the most persistent prevail

PLEASE DON'T USE MOTOR FLUSH. Clean oil or at most kerosene would be better.

 

[alwaysFlOoReD]

PLEASE DON'T USE MOTOR FLUSH. Clean oil or at most kerosene would be better.

What's the reason?

 

[19Walt93]

What's the reason?

What's in motor flush and is it something you want in your oil? There will be some left in the engine after it's drained. Clean oil would be my first choice, then kerosene. After using kerosene I'd fill it with fresh oil, run it a couple minutes and change it again.

 

[1984RESTOMOD]

Do I just keep flushing this damn thing til the dipstick comes out clean then change filter and oil? Got my drill on 2 running half speed rotating through batteries. Have been going for half hour or so

 

[85_Ranger4x4]

PLEASE DON'T USE MOTOR FLUSH. Clean oil or at most kerosene would be better.

Diesel is similar to kerosene and is much cheaper, in a previous life they used it to flush out ag transmissions/differentials all the time.

Do I just keep flushing this damn thing til the dipstick comes out clean then change filter and oil? Got my drill on 2 running half speed rotating through batteries. Have been going for half hour or so

You can probably stop now...

 

[Shran]

Diesel is similar to kerosene and is much cheaper, in a previous life they used it to flush out ag transmissions/differentials all the time.

You can probably stop now...

I was gonna say, diesel is what I'd use, and lots of it.

Hard to say where the glitter is coming from or how long it'll take to get it out. I would be very tempted to at least pull the oil pan and lower intake and inspect from there, maybe a bearing cap or two as well. It could just be crap from when the engine failed before, or it could be machining grit from the rebuilding process that didn't get cleaned out. Neither is good.

 

[CamTheHedgehog]

Diesel is similar to kerosene and is much cheaper, in a previous life they used it to flush out ag transmissions/differentials all the time.



You can probably stop now...

The other nice thing about diesel is that it has a degree of lubricity to it, as it is closer to oil than the lighter fuels. (Diesels need the injector pumps to stay lubricated, what better way to do that than to make the liquid being pumped the lubricant?)

As opposed to a more aggressive alcohol/acetone type solvent as a flush. I also know some off the shelf engine flushes are basically diesel fuel with some special detergents added.