My new DD/tow rig since my ranger's motor blew up.

[Maverick]

A dana 60 for $150? I despise you.

 

[metalmacguyver]

Ill trade it for your garage........

 

[Cheeks]

thats a beautiful truck, before I bought my ranger I was looking for one of those to make into a woods truck. Gotta love diesel, I drive mine everyday and its a tank

 

[metalmacguyver]

And it keeps getting better and better. I spent about 4 hours tonight reading up on running WMO as fuel (waste motor oil).



FREE FUEL!!!!!!!!!

 

[Maverick]

Ill trade it for your garage........

You'd have to move to Kalifornia. Actually, I don't think it's any worse than MA

 

[Will]

You can run 10-12psi on those motors and use it all. The high compression is the limiter. Gets too hot if you fuel it past that. Besides that, the Standyne DB2 pump will limit you to 250hp/450ft#.

I hated my truck before the turbo went on it. It goes from dangerously weak and loud to smooth and quiet (relatively) and powerful like magic. Around town isn't too bad but as soon as you head up the on-ramp with that 160hp and an 8,000# trailer--you'll be bending the steering wheel like a Bull Worker and spitting out teeth chunks.

Nastilly Asspirated diesels are deceiving--they are really snappy on the throttle and give you a feeling of immense power. The reason they are snappy is because there is extra oxygen already in the airstream becaue it doesn't have to burn near stoichemtric--when you step on it all the fuel that is injected can be instantly burned as there is no need to wait for the air to accelerate as there is when you have a throttle plate. But the party is over pretty quickly when you need to get real horsepower out of it. The turbo takes some of that snappiness out of the throttle, but it comes on like damnit when the turbo starts pumping new air into it. I would get a turbo on it asap. My first kit I bought new from Gale Banks. When I switched to this truck I was dismayed to find none of the parts fit so I bought a used kit on Ebay for a few hundred bucks and used the turbocharger from the other truck because it was newer. I'm sure you could do as well.

 

[wahlstrom1]

So for shits and giggles, how'd ya think an M112 blower from a lightning would wake up a N/A 6.2?

-andrew

 

[Will]

For some reason blowers aren't common on 4-stroke diesels. I think the V903 in the Marine's Amtracs had a roots blower and a turbo on them in one version. I think that there is so much exhaust coming out it's just a no brainer to capture that instead of adding the complication and drag of a blower. A turbo and a diesel just belong together. But if you can get it on then use a 10-15psi blow-off valve and keep the fuel down enough to not exceed 1,100F EGT. The 6.9/7.3 is a physically tougher engine, but they use the same injection pump and when they are turbo-supercharged can both burn up all the fuel that pump can give out and so make the same power and torque. The 6.2 will come apart before the 7.3 would though, no question. But I downshift when the EGT goes over 1,000F and go as fast as I want. The torque makes the heat so when you downshift and use the gears for torque it cools it right down and you don't really trade anything off.

I have a 1988-2000 body-style turbo kit. What is the 6.2 in?

 

[metalmacguyver]

I installed the hydroboost system last night.


The truck stops freaking great now! I can lock up the brakes with out effort and that was not possible no matter how strong you were before.

 

[Will]

Yeah, I don't know what mentally disorganized person at Ford decided it was a good idea to put vacuum assist brakes on those. GM had hydraboost on all HD pickups, not just diesels. Was it a belt driven vacuum pump? Good place to add an airpump or something now maybe.

 

[metalmacguyver]

Yes it was, The only other thing that it runs is the vent door actuators, which are actually kindof important if I need to defrost the windows. (Though it takes about a 30-40 minutes for it to warm up)

 

[wahlstrom1]

I have a 1988-2000 body-style turbo kit. What is the 6.2 in?

It's an 86' K10 with 3/4 ton axles geared 4.56 and running 35's. It's running an NV3500....I know the tranny seems a lil light but it's held up so far and the gearing helps to take a load off the tranny. The buddy of mine that owns it is throwing a decent set of injectors in it, and getting it all cleared away maintenance wise, timing chains etc. I ran the blower idea past him and he seemed a lil enthusiastic, lol.

Now that I'm done thread hijacking, the solid axle under that truck makes it almost bullet proof. Might also want to add a lil more fluid to the ZF as their downfall was baking the output bearing when fluid runs a lil low.

-andrew

 

[metalmacguyver]

What fluid do the ZF trannys take?

 

[wahlstrom1]

Mercon/Dextron III spec fluid is what is advised by ford. Lots of guys on the fullsize forums have had luck running GM synthetic tranny fluid as well.

-andrew

 

[Will]

It's an 86' K10...

Won't fit. Old frames are much narrower and the turbine outlet pipe has nowhere to go.