My Pete rebuild

[Nostalgic]

Not a lot to update - have been busy with ac and cooling work in the day, and grading some property in the evenings. Been blasting and painting misc. parts and brackets at night. Machine shop matched local price for cutting counterbores, so I dropped the block off last week. Valve cam polished up good, but the frosting didn't come out of the injector cam. They said they wouldn't be afraid to run it, but I really don't feel like tearing into it again in 200-250k miles, so I'm pondering reground, aftermarket, or new Cummins. Not a huge price spread, but every $1k counts when you're 6-8 months away from a payday. I'll have to call Cummins for pricing on rollers once I get the rockers cleaned and on the bench.

On a side not, for anyone that questioned or cringed at my method of cleaning up the deck - I was offered a job when he saw my prep work. I may have considered if not for the 1:45 commute each way lol. Deck is good, and counterbores needed .002" to even up, which would have put my liners at about .009" I considered having the deck cut to bring the liners up, but decided to just order .020" shims from Apex - they're going to wait for them before doing final cuts tomorrow.

Ordered a ring compressor - I really don't feel like fighting 6 pistons in with my spring steel compressor. It would just be too easy to scratch a piston or break a ring. Only other tool I'm going to need soon is a liner press. If I find some spare time, I'll probably make my own. Have an extra piece of AR500 steel that fits the fire ring perfectly, just need to weld up a stand.