Thanks for all the good advice. Took valve covers off and can certainly see the potential for leakage at those tubes. However cannot see leakage around any of these tubes. Used brake clean to dry area up. Ran it both hot and cold. Could not see any leakage. Used heat gun on manifold. No noticeable difference on any of the cylinders and seems to run fine. On face of injector there is a frost plug and below that the throttling rod. Can it leak around this rod? Rod so very close to the bottom of the injector housing and very difficult to see if any of them are leaking there. Thanks
No brass in those tubes... all steel with a copper flash plating.I still have my old MAC fuel line socket. It is easy to over tighten the fuel line cross over nut. As stated above; the right tight is good, too tight is bad.
If you don't have the socket, tighten the nuts by hand, use the wrench to make it just snug, then give it a little more. You are pulling down on brass against steel so gentle is the word.
On face of injector there is a frost plug and below that the throttling rod. Can it leak around this rod? Rod so very close to the bottom of the injector housing and very difficult to see if any of them are leaking there. Thanks
Not sure there is an easy answer to that question. The first thing I would expect to be different would be the type of governor they have. Instead of me trying to explain and make a mistake read this:What is the diffrents between a 6v53 in a truck and a piece of equipment? A buddy died and i got one he had it has a flexplate on it also the manifolds are pointing to the front but he had a flywheel and clutch seting by it. Also if its didnt come with a turbo what would it take internaly to make it work?I have worked on 2 cylinders,v12s and every thing in between but dont remember every think.
I drove a 12V71 powered Peterbilt Cabover with the Variable speed governor, The hand throttle was just like cruise control, But you had to make sure the booster spring was set to the max or she would bend throttle linkage parts.You can certainly use an engine with a variable speed type governor in a truck though, in fact from what I have tried I prefer it to be that way. So if that is the only hangup with a 6v53 that you want to try I say go for it anyway with the variable speed governor intact. So long as the max RPM is not set too low.
You have the wrong front cover on that blower, I'll see if can find the right part number. You probably need a 6V-71 front cover with the proper fuel rods to the heads, you might want to look at using a yield link in the governor too... Wait wut? Now you gotta change the heads too? You are just too confusing for me.Any idea where to install the governor on an 8 - V 38 Ford application ?
You have the wrong front cover on that blower, I'll see if can find the right part number. You probably need a 6V-71 front cover with the proper fuel rods to the heads, you might want to look at using a yield link in the governor too... Wait wut? Now you gotta change the heads too? You are just too confusing for me.