oliver foster

Well, my buddy solved my weird tail light issue.
Turns out the turn signal switch on the steering column was making my brake lights wonky. I had been testing tail light harnesses, chasing wires...So that was nice quick fix once the actual problem was pinned down.

While we where bumping the timing on the VE pump we noticed a leak on the high pressure head. This turned a small job into a pulll the pump and reseal it sort of job.
"While I am here, I should" struck and I found myself pulling the tappet cover and resealing that since I had such great access.
I had noticed it had some white smoke at idle and wanted to check the timing. It was low so we ended up bumping it to just over the stock # after the reseal when we installed it.

oliver foster

Other things that have been done this spring to get ready for the trip to Carlisle.

When the pump was getting resealed seemed like the perfect time to add a 366 Gov. spring along with a stiffer AFC spring. I have not had a lot of road time yet, but it seems to be tuned pretty decently.

While going through the tail lights getting them all to work, I realized my reverse light did not work. Traced it down to the reverse light switch in the 'rag was bad. Swapped in a switch I had on a cracked Getrag top cover I keep for pieces and the lights are now working.

The tailgate got a refresh too. The latch was jacked up, so it was disassembled only to find some bent metal towards the latches. After cleaning things up, swapping out a few plastic clips, lubing things to work smoothly and a little metal tweaking the tailgate opens and closes like it is supposed to. After the latch was fixed seemed like a good time to install a '92/'93 LE tailgate panel which has been missing from its tailgate for 10 years. I located a good one in my collection and installed it to church it up a bit.

I checked to see if the A/C still works well after filling it up last summer. Seems to be pushing cold air out the vents.

oliver foster

Been driving this all over getting in my years worth of road trips over the summer. I will be stuck here filling the wood stove soon enough.
The truck did great on the 1000 mile round trip to Carlisle where my daughter and I camped out of it for 5 days. The show was a great time and we got to see a bunch of our Dodge brothers.

Then last week I drove over to the Thousand Islands area and did some fishing with my buddy who has a place over there on the water. Caught my first walleye which was awesome. Put another 500 miles and a couple more days of camping out of it.

With the 4.10 gears it prefers the backroad type road trips better than the 75 mile an hour blasts on the highway, even with the 37s. Runs cooler, gets better mileage and the A/C runs better when your not turning 2100-2300 RPMs down the road.

KRB

Sounds like the shakedown run has been long surpassed and was successful!

I think the sweet spot for a stock B is like 1,800 rpm or so right?

Camp on down to Bowling Green next month, that's only another 2,000 mi round trip...