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hiker:
Had a 71 Plymouth satilite..heard a slight knocking sound....okay ILE change out the rod and mains...jacked up the front..crawled under ..dropped the pan..changed out rod bearings..changed out the mains...bearings all looked fine ..little worn..?  Torked it all down..installed pan...cranked it up...tick tick tick...just a tappet the whole time.!!!   Quick fix on that.! Back in the early 80s...😜

Bruce S:
Ahh the days of actually working on a car and have it respond with something you could understand without need a degree in programming  :o.
That's what drew me to the early 80's MB diesels, even tho they had solid lifters, you could actually get under the hood and work on it.
Forgetting to put an oil baffle on it and getting oil all over the place was even fun.
What I don't miss is getting zapped by the coils , my poor elbows got tore up from the reaction. I wished I had owned a night time camera when I opened up a friend's car one late night only to see coil arcs going everywhere except to the plugs.

JW, I know were drifting ff course here, but the memories are great!!
Thanks

JW:
Its still is on topic Bruce :)

Ok so today was the big day, I got all the bearings in and was waiting for oil pump gaskets. On the 1989 D21 2.4L the oil pump is driven by the crankshaft and has to index cyl #1 tdc. The oil pump is external I must have went thru 10 gaskets because I had to remove it in and out 20 times before I got it right.

While I was waiting for the gaskets I decided I would replace the in tank fuel pump. I have been building up to that for 2 days. As luck would have it the tank was full. Anyway it went as good as possible. I put the truck on a lift and used a transmission jack and supported the tank that way. Everything went good and I don't have to worry a 25 year old fuel pump now.

Ok so I also replaced the water pump.

Everything went well and the truck runs great....

Now comes the rev limiter....  The condition still exists even with the new fuel pump.

I was told by somebody on the Nissan forum since my truck is a 5 speed the ECM has a rev limiter built in. However the ECM for the auto transmission does not have this. I have one(A/T), everything else is done, so now we remove the seat then swap out the ECM's put the seat back and be done with the whole thing.  8)

 

JW:
Well spun anther rod bearing, got a new motor and my nephew is helping me put the new engine in it. I stuck my otherpower bumper sticker on it and it blew up :) the truck.

dbcollen:
whomever previously drove that truck really liked to ride the clutch, look at all the wear on the thrust bearing.

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