My Pete rebuild

[Nostalgic]

I guess I never updated my electrical gremlins. I found a rotted off frame ground cable at the starter when I replaced the start charge harness. Haven't had the original problem return regardless, but I'm sure it wasn't helping.

Started to get some oil seepage on the front cover in the crank position sensor area. It would take 10-15k miles to get a film, but I decided to take care of it while I was kind of feeling like it.

The biggest motivation was a little clangy coming from the gear train area. I replaced the lower idler gear while I was in there, and installed a new front housing. With all of the slop out of the idler gear bushing, it sure made setting the gear lash easier. Since I had the compressor out already doing the front housing, I took the opportunity to install a Cummins air compressor. I hadn't had a problem yet with my ebay India made compressor, but feel a little better now that all of the important stuff is OE. Fan pulley was well worn, so she got a new OE hub assembly as well. You'd think she'd appreciate all the pricey gifts, but instead she started to knock.

Mostly during acceleration at first, then it got worse when working hard in the heat. I was getting to the point that I was just waiting for a piston to appear.

I ran cutout tests, and it ran on every cylinder by itself. No bubbles from front or rear.

Didn't hear any knocking while using jakes.

Thanks to @Hammerhead for the post in: http://rawze.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=3723







The valve cam and all rockers have probably close to 35k hours on them. I'll have to check my valve rocker bushings, but I'm hoping to just replace the jake rockers and rocker shafts since I still have the narrow lobe cam. If I have to change any of the valve rockers, I'll have to replace the cam as well since everything is obsolete.