Last night at about 3am I tightened up the last bolt on it. It seemed like it took forever yesterday to get the rocker arms to do what I wanted but o well its done. Pics will be up as soon as they are approved. I will also post a list of what everything cost whenever I round up all the reciepts. Now I gotta go run through a heat cycle then retorque all the studs.

 

I'll have to watch for this.

 

They can be difficult if you don't have the adjusters backed all the way off and you try to pull them down against a raised cam lobe with a head bolt.

 

TTT Pics are finally up

 

Sure is a purdy lookin engine. It matches your painted on glow in the dark flames.

 

Nice Pics. Studs look good! How many on the 12v's?
Can't wait to see it running strong again, at the next Waco meet!
Been a rough month but almost over with, Ah?
Any pics of the GB tranny before it goes in?

RJ

 

There are 26 studs and doin 120ftlbs 26 times is alot for this skinny little white boy.
Yea december sucked my whole two week break from school I didnt have a truck but thats finally all over. Ill take some pics of the tranny today its all shiny and black.

Bigblue - you the the glow in the dark flames are good you should see me drivin around all day yesterday with the hood off of it

 

So let's see, no hood, painted glow in the dark flames, grey/bondoed/rusted cab, and a white/bondoed/rusted bed. Boy, if that's not redneck then I don't know what is.

 

Yea but it sure is the fastest/ugliest truck around here. And definetly the loudest.

 

Ok heres a list of what everything cost
Marine headgasket $93
Studs $390
Oil, aintfreeze, fuel and oil filters $70
Valve cover gaskets $25
Belt $30
Water temp sensor $40
Exhaust and manifold gaskets $30
Powder coating $60
Machine shop $85
Front seal $30
Grand total of $853

Now of course you can get out of it way cheaper than I did because theres alot of things on my truck that just needed to be replaced and I also finally got the Kdp done while i was in there.

 

All in all that ain't to bad of a price. I was expecting that just to redo the head and studs. Now it's time to bolt the tranny in and really have fun.

 

You can rebuild these motors for quite cheap if you can do the work yourself. I just helped a buddy do an inframe on his 5.9 in a freightliner fl70. We replaced the head,pistons,rings,wrist pins,main bearings, rod bearings, head bolts all for around $2,200.00 cad. He found a local shop that supplies the oilfield with parts,Cummins wanted $400 ea for a piston, local guy $30 head gasket $85 cummins $240.

 

Cory,

It looks good!

Too bad BB beat me to the paint job comments.