Mission Creep on a D-150
Since the head has been at the MS for a couple of weeks, I decided to tackle the cab flooring. This truck had none at all, making it VERY noisy. Plus the shifter boot wasn't screwed down so tons of road noise came up through the hole. Out came the seat. The floors are pristine with factory paint in outstanding shape.
However, they are filthy. An evening spent scraping, vacuuming, washing, and final wipe-down gets us nice surfaces for the Kilmat. I did give a shot of primer to a couple of surface scrapes.
Much to my surprise, the Kilmat takes a loooooooooooong time to install. The back wall was pretty quick since it's a mostly flat surface, but for the rest each piece has to be placed, trimmed, and patched by hand. I'm not a particularly anal kind of guy, but I do want full coverage on the Kilmat. Here is two evenings worth of work.
Yesterday I picked up the head. They went through the entire thing with full tear-down and cleanup, new positive valve seals throughout, relapped the valves, and checked the spring heights. Here it is, in its bagged/shrouded beauty. More pics of this one when I get ready to install it.
I'm only working tomorrow of the next four days, so it will be a shop-fest to chart some forward progress. Stay tuned, happy campers!
Since the head has been at the MS for a couple of weeks, I decided to tackle the cab flooring. This truck had none at all, making it VERY noisy. Plus the shifter boot wasn't screwed down so tons of road noise came up through the hole. Out came the seat. The floors are pristine with factory paint in outstanding shape.
However, they are filthy. An evening spent scraping, vacuuming, washing, and final wipe-down gets us nice surfaces for the Kilmat. I did give a shot of primer to a couple of surface scrapes.
Much to my surprise, the Kilmat takes a loooooooooooong time to install. The back wall was pretty quick since it's a mostly flat surface, but for the rest each piece has to be placed, trimmed, and patched by hand. I'm not a particularly anal kind of guy, but I do want full coverage on the Kilmat. Here is two evenings worth of work.
Yesterday I picked up the head. They went through the entire thing with full tear-down and cleanup, new positive valve seals throughout, relapped the valves, and checked the spring heights. Here it is, in its bagged/shrouded beauty. More pics of this one when I get ready to install it.
I'm only working tomorrow of the next four days, so it will be a shop-fest to chart some forward progress. Stay tuned, happy campers!