Helping Waterloo out with an inframe ...

[Waterloo]

UPDATE!

Ok, we started with the block, stone and oil to get her nice and smooth like a baby's bottom. My first back ache of the day... Got that done, then we started cutting the block for the liners. But first, Rawze went in the kitchen and brought out a plastic microwaveable bowl. We only had one, so his wife was gracious enough to run up to Walmart to get more. They were in stock, we got lucky! Enough to do all six liners! Do what you ask...?

   

He played around with it for a few minutes, grabbed a hacksaw and started cutting around the edge, removing around 1/2" of the top of the bowl, just a hair ABOVE the lower lip of the bowl. You need that lip. Then hit it with a heat gun and forced one of the liner rings from the top of the block into the bowl. That liner ring STRETCHED the bowl to the proper diameter, very crucial to making this all work. He then drilled a hole in the bottom of the bowl and inserted a bolt with a washer and nut, so as to make a small handle to reach in the bowl to lift it up by the bolt. The hacksaw worked, but Rawze broke out the Dremel tool and sped up the process. There was also some sanding involved, and the darn things just work. I would guess and say these bowls are around 5 inches deep, just so you know if you go to Walmart to pick up some for yourself if you have a need for these.

Here is the finished product, saving the motor from block shavings. Very cool! Cummins wants $500 ea for these cups. I think they were around $4 ea at Walmart. ;-)

   

The liners in my block are the 150mm variety, and these bowls fit perfectly. But, we still used blue painters tape to seal up around the edges so none of the shavings got away. We used a small Shop-Vac to suck the metal shavings out of the bowl.

   

Here we are machining the block... Well, I guess we were taking a break... ;-)

   

And here is something very serious we found the when tearing everything down. This is the Injector gear, under the top front cover. It is a split gear with tensioner springs and adjustable bolts. This was just thrown on, no tension was applied, the springs were just rattling around in there and this gear was ready to literally blow apart. Also, there was no Loc-Tite on the cam to hold this gear in place, it popped right off with little effort. I was driving on some serious borrowed time. This would have taken out the entire motor. Look at the spring and bolt, how chewed up they are. There are four tensioner springs with four bolts, they all looked like this. Failure was imminent. Mr Hagg was here when we shot these photos, he is ordering a new gear for me. He is looking out for me and really helping in this effort, very very good guy, no a GREAT GUY!

   

I am sure Rawze will have more to add, everything is going great, we both have sore backs and it was a long day. We are waiting for the liner kit so that we can finish up the machine work. It has been non stop around here.

Yesterday we did taxes, I went and sat at the Mexican restaurant next door and sipped on Heinekens for several hours... They finished up and we headed up to the International Dealer here in town and dropped another $640 on parts. We found a few issues with non related but still vital to the operation of the truck parts that needed replacing.

We arrived home and a young man in a Peterbilt was here needing some help with the programing on his truck. Rawze got right on it and fixed him up there in the driveway as me and Rawze's misses had a few more adult beverages... Rawze's wife is so cool, just a true sweetheart and kind as the day is long. She is fun to just be around, and she loves to laugh! Rawze is a very lucky man, and I mean that.

Well, that is about it, I think everyone is retired for the evening, and I am ready to saw some logs. ;-)