EL BORRACHO - 71 Jimmy

[KrazyKarl02]

Going to the land of very lightly used guns and stinky people today. When I return we can discuss a date.

[DRAGOONRANCH]

Going to the land of very lightly used guns and stinky people today. When I return we can discuss a date.


Taking action on wether Karl makes it to 3rd base on said date...

[KrazyKarl02]

Old news Ed, I have already made it way past 3rd base with Jerry.

[Fredo]

wow....I think Ed just found the line for a public thread.

[DRAGOONRANCH]

:flipoff2:

[Doug Krebs]

Doug, is ron's suburban still at your property?

No, he scraped everything. What do you need?

[jerryg79]

Ed, keep the BS out. You'e not even busting balls over things that are halfway relevant.

[jerryg79]

No, he scraped everything. What do you need?

I wanted the TBI stuff. I think this has been discussed before, will a 4.3 tbi setup work on a v8, with change of injectors/computer?

[Fredo]

yes, you will have to change the injectors and chip, then find a v8 distributor.

[CRaSHnBuRN]

I wanted the TBI stuff. I think this has been discussed before, will a 4.3 tbi setup work on a v8, with change of injectors/computer?


was there a useable 4.3 attached to that fuel injection?

[Doug Krebs]

I wanted the TBI stuff. I think this has been discussed before, will a 4.3 tbi setup work on a v8, with change of injectors/computer?

You can borrow that crap from the 4.3 in my garage if you want. It's not like it's going to be used anytime soon.

[Fredo]

I wanted the TBI stuff. I think this has been discussed before, will a 4.3 tbi setup work on a v8, with change of injectors/computer?

I had forgotten this thing had a TPI unit sitting on it. Why wouldn't you just get that running? You're going to go through just as much wiring and plumbing work as you would with TBI, and with TPI, you'd end up with an injection system that makes a ****-ton of torque compared to TBI.

[Fredo]

was there a useable 4.3 attached to that fuel injection?

you do realize this is a 5000lb full size blazer we are talking about right?

[agjohn02]

why are you so scared of TPI?

[french accent]scaredy cat scaredy cat[/french accent]


edit- i meant TPI and that was directed at jerry.

[Fredo]

I'm not scared of TBI. If you remember, that's what's been on my scout for about 5 years now. It works good. I'm just saying that instead of trying to source additional parts, he could spend the time and effort on the TPI for the same amount of plumbing and wiring work and not only use something he already has, but end up with a more powerful, responsive engine to boot.

[agjohn02]

im siding with you fred. post edited.

[jerryg79]

my thoughts are, i'll fiddle with the current tpi for a little bit, but I dont even know if anything i have is good. the guy "got it to fire once" who the fork knows what he did.

[Fredo]

Well, the only thing that could really be wrong with it is dead sensors, or a bad harness. Turns out I'm sure has multiple spares of these parts sitting in a corner of his apartment in College station. I he doesn't, I do. Even if the injectors are bad, I've got a set of 24#'s from an LT1 sitting on my desk at home that I'll give you. Just get a case of beer, and a bottle of Jim, and invite me and flem down for a weekend. :)

[robertf03]

I bet vats wasn't disabled and it fired with a shot of carb cleaner

easy fix, get me the computer out of it when you get a chance and I'll fix it.

[CRaSHnBuRN]

you do realize this is a 5000lb full size blazer we are talking about right?

He mentioned a 4.3 TBI, so I was curious if there was an engine with it. I'd like to swap in a V6 or V8 at some point

[jerryg79]

somebody give me a $1000 and this thing is yours.

I need $ for a hotwater heater and its either this or selling guns, and i like/use this less.

I'll deliver it as far as dallas for price of diesel.

[Graystroke]

Maybe I could trade you a water heater installed?

[KrazyKarl02]

El Borracho is at its new home. It is curious about all the motorcycles and afraid of The Klogger.

[BMFScout]

sweet, now you can abandon that Ford crap and build a real truck...

[Graystroke]

was there a buy back clause in the deal?

[agjohn02]

you should put a GN body on that frame and really rub it in jerry's face.

[jerryg79]

you should put a GN body on that frame and really rub it in jerry's face.

i'll probably just get my dad to buy a different one, and then he can pay me to work on it.

[agjohn02]

sweet deal! maybe i should get my dad to pay me too.

[colman]

sweet deal! maybe i should get my dad to pay me too.

..........

i know someone is going to say it :)

[agjohn02]

..........

i know someone is going to say it :)

you got a good burn? dont pass it up son. lets hear it.

[Eckert]

sweet deal! maybe i should get my dad to pay me too.

so he buys whatever you want? what more could you ask for!

[agjohn02]

poor attempt. thanks for playing though.

[Eckert]

wasnt trying to bring the funny. did you see a smiley?

[DRAGOONRANCH]

zing??? :confused:

[stx4wheeler]

Thanks for putting it in park when you loaded it on the trailer jerry. It made for some interesting action as i see it rolling off the trailer towards the lake, which was attached to my truck!!!:flipoff2:

[jerryg79]

Thanks for putting it in park when you loaded it on the trailer jerry. It made for some interesting action as i see it rolling off the trailer towards the lake, which was attached to my truck!!!:flipoff2:

your truck was attached to the lake?

[Seth]

you eat pieces of **** for breakfast?! (sorry just popped in my head when i read that ***)

[KrazyKarl02]

It is off the trailer, it was quite scary seeing Frick pull the trailer forward and watching El Borracho roll uncontrolled off the end. Luckily the Mike Knoeller D60 was there to stop the Jimmy.

See having extra crap in your yard is good!

[DRAGOONRANCH]

Any thoughts on your plans for this one? Or are we gonna have to wait on your own build thread?

[jerryg79]

Any thoughts on your plans for this one? Or are we gonna have to wait on your own build thread?

I think his plans are the same as mine originally were, but he has about 10 other projects so it will be a while...

[BMFScout]

I wish it would have rolled into the lake, that would have made for an awesome story. I think it would have made a nicer dock than your neighbors pontoon dock!

[DRAGOONRANCH]

and cheaper too. :D

[KrazyKarl02]

Here are some pictures, El Borracho as it sits. You can see the body is still pretty decent

[KrazyKarl02]

Here is a picture of the worst rust on the truck behind the driver's door. It is going to need a patch panel. Also the owner before Jerry was great at lining up doors, note the gap. The back by the tailgate is in pretty good shape and parts of the floor up front have been replaced.

[KrazyKarl02]

The owner before Jerry did this awesome shackle flip. He called "home brewed and reenforced (exact spelling). Anyone one want it? Also he made this awesome computer mount/pizza box

[KrazyKarl02]

Here is one of my first ideas as to why it does not run, see if anyone sees anything wrong with the negative body cable....

[KrazyKarl02]

I picked this top up off of craigslist for $150. It is ok, but has some cracks. I think I can fix it. Thoughts?

[CheapJeep]

Here is one of my first ideas as to why it does not run, see if anyone sees anything wrong with the negative body cable....

The head looks like a good ground....:D

[agjohn02]

is there a ground strap between engine and frame?

[KrazyKarl02]

is there a ground strap between engine and frame?

No, and there is no ground strap on the computer either....

[robertf03]

computer case doesn't need to be grounded. They sit in a plastic craddle from the factory.

[BMFScout]

marine-tex on the top.

[davido]

That thing is cool looking! I always loved that body style.

[Graystroke]

Put this in El Borracho

http://dallas.craigslist.org/ftw/pts/806152434.html

it's been on there for months so I'm guessing he is very negotiable

[KrazyKarl02]

YES, multiple the purchase price by 4.75 percent, brilliant!

[jerryg79]

YES, multiple the purchase price by 4.75 percent, brilliant!

where's my other $99k????

[KrazyKarl02]

I menat by 4.75 times. Accounting error, I was getting some help from the Enron exec's

[KrazyKarl02]

I've been doing a little work on El Borracho, as some of you might remember a previous owner had put a fuel injected engine in it with a "store bought" wiring harness. The engine was bored out, had a cam, new oil pump, etc... However the previous owners never could get the truck to run. I started by checking for spark, it had spark, then checked to see if the injectors were firing with noid lights, they were firing. The entire time the starter made a death noise.... Next I checked for fuel pressure. The previous owner had installed a pressure gauge on the fuel rail, it indicated no pressure.

I could hear the fuel pump running when you "keyed on" the truck, so I went under to look at the fuel pump install. Here is what I found.....

[KrazyKarl02]

As you can see the previous owner installed the fuel pump relatively high when compared to the fuel tank. Also he placed the fuel filter in between the tank and pump. Both of these were not allowing the pump to prime. I hooked a hand pump into the line and broke a line at the engine (the schrader valve had the fuel pressure gauge on it), then I primed it. Then I reconnected everything and keyed the engine a few times, it started up after about the third try. Ran very well, sounds good, surprisingly little smoke for as long as it has been sitting. Oil pressure looked good.

As mentioned the starter sounded like arse, so I went to look at that. My initial thought was that the radio frequency from satelite tv had hit a harmonic note on the wire leading to the starter. This of course caused the starter to vibrate violently creating the noise. Once I took a look at it, I had a different diagnoses....

[KrazyKarl02]

I went to O'reilly's to get a new starter. I was going to buy the more expensive starter, but they only had one in stock, seriously how does O'reilly's only have one starter for a small block chevy???

Anywho replaced it, it started well. Next I needed to break the cam in, so I hooked all the cooling lines up and then started and went through a cam break in procedure. Then I shut the engine off, and went to bolting the seat in, I wanted to drive this thing!

Unfortunately at this point the new starter seemed to take a crap, which leads us to this thread:

http://www.tamor.org/forums/showthread.php?t=10902

[KrazyKarl02]

I took the crap starter back to O'reilly's and got another of the same. We'll see if it was just a crap starter or something more. Plus this was free and got me going today.

You know they say when you buy someone else's failed project that you are buying their problems, and that proved true today. I installed the starter, put the t-case in gears (it has a half assed twin stick) I put the front shaft in neutral and the rear in low, started the truck, drove it down my driveway and back. Then I backed it into place, it does not have a fan so I did not want to over heat it. Stepped out and I saw a puddle under the middle of the truck, looked under neath and saw this.

[KrazyKarl02]

And now we have this thread:

http://tamor.org/forums/showthread.php?p=222542#post222542

[Graystroke]

looks like you could just buy that at a parts house...i don't know **** about 205's...looks like it is just a seal housing. should be el cheapo at a parts house...just go down to your local tranny rebuild place and they probably have one holding a door open somewhere in the shop.

[KrazyKarl02]

Yeah, I'm kind of curious what is going on inside this T-case that made it do that...

[tigweld]

I bet the driveshaft somehow caused that, I would check to see if it has any bind marks on it.

[uglyota]

Am I missing something? Looks like you just need to cinch up and restake the pinion nut?

Couldn't you have made it sound like a bigger effort to get the thing running and driving, you know, to make Jerry feel a bit better about flemming it out?

[85cj7]

Am I missing something? Looks like you just need to cinch up and restake the pinion nut?

Couldn't you have made it sound like a bigger effort to get the thing running and driving, you know, to make Jerry feel a bit better about flemming it out?

crack in the output bearing retainer

[uglyota]

ah. Then JB weld (but Karl already knew that!)

[jerryg79]

Am I missing something? Looks like you just need to cinch up and restake the pinion nut?

Couldn't you have made it sound like a bigger effort to get the thing running and driving, you know, to make Jerry feel a bit better about flemming it out?

yup that's all it needs to get roadworthy is to get the motor started....

[uglyota]

I said running and driving. It ran and drove. Roadworthy is subjective, you read craigslist, you should know that!

[jerryg79]

I said running and driving. It ran and drove. Roadworthy is subjective, you read craigslist, you should know that!

i spent more time putting the thing on and off trailers than i did trying to get it "running and driving"

He's not going to sink the kind of money into it to get it to where i wanted to, so i dont feel bad about selling it.

[mudtoy67]

Am I missing something? Looks like you just need to cinch up and restake the pinion nut?

Couldn't you have made it sound like a bigger effort to get the thing running and driving, you know, to make Jerry feel a bit better about flemming it out?

I think you have the wrong definition for "Fleming" something out.;)

[KrazyKarl02]

Couldn't you have made it sound like a bigger effort to get the thing running and driving, you know, to make Jerry feel a bit better about flemming it out?

If it helps, I damn near put the thing in the lake getting it off the trailer the first time....

And like Jerry said, now that it runs all it needs is interior, paint, body work, go through the brakes, go through the axles, tires, etc....

[FJAggie07]

I think you have the wrong definition for "Fleming" something out.;)

"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."

:gigem:

[uglyota]

I was just joking, but mostly what I had in mind was that the reason this thing got put out to pasture was that the HOA needed to see it start up and move under its own power, which Karl seems to have done in about the time it probably took Jerry to load it on a trailer and take it to the storage lot...

[KrazyKarl02]

To me "fleming" a project is to take something with smoe potential and then complete destroy it in as many pieces as possible and sell. For example:

Robert had a CJ, but then he decided to remove axles, engine, etc.. Then he decided to put some bastard dana 60 in it. Mean while he tore apart a sun beam. At the end of the day he sold the CJ, thereby fleming it out.

[uglyota]

I think of it as buying something, sitting on it for a period of time (may or may not involve disassembly and/or bastardization), then selling at a loss. I.e. "I flemmed out that silly little diesel volkswagen pickup for $200 and a lawnmower engine after purchasing for $200, having it transported from Corpus for a handle of Jack, and storing it for a year at $25/mo."

[mudtoy67]

I think of it as buying something, sitting on it for a period of time (may or may not involve disassembly and/or bastardization), then selling at a loss. I.e. "I flemmed out that silly little diesel volkswagen pickup for $200 and a lawnmower engine after purchasing for $200, having it transported from Corpus for a handle of Jack, and storing it for a year at $25/mo."

That's not Fleming....that's just dumb.

:flipoff2:

[Sharpe]

That's not Fleming....that's just dumb.

:flipoff2:

But I got a handle of Jack out of it! :gigem:

[uglyota]

See...the key to a good flem is that at least one person wins. Just not Flem. (the flem, the flem-mer?)

[AggieTJ2007]

http://www.pirate4x4.com/forum/showthread.php?t=673424

needs some bling

[KrazyKarl02]

hmm, thats geah.

[DRAGOONRANCH]

chiney!!!