Drumman
Cummins TSS
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- May 19, 2011
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Welcome to my build thread. After having this truck for 3 years I am finally doing "major mods" to me at least. I feel like its the right time in my life. I bought a house last year, been at my job for 2 years, have the room and all the time I need to do a prefect build for me. I got out of the performance side for a little bit to save money and focus on dirt bike racing. But that all changed when FirstGen90 moved in with me because he got hired on at Cummins :clap:. As many of you know you try to get out and it just sucks you right back in. This will not be a quick build what so ever. I will be taking my time to do things right. I want to make it enjoyable and throwing a truck together is not my idea of fun.
Lets get on to what i plan on doing. Most of it will probably change considering i have added a lot of stuff to my list just within the last two weeks of working on the truck.
As of now the plan is....
(Virgin) 160 P-pump conversion - Thanks to Big Blue24.
7 X .012 Injectors - Big Blue24 will be building these for me.
4k valve springs.
Heavy duty push tubes.
Bigger camshaft of some sort, still haven't decided.
Manual valve body.
Gated shifter.
Add a billet output shaft.
Single turbo, maybe 72 with spool flange if i can get a hold of one.
Lots of cleaning and painting.
custom transmission lines and fuel lines.
A lot of clean up work and time to make things look pretty.
Now picture time!
This is my girl, so innocent to what is about to happen to her
Was rotating the engine around to get the pump nut and damper bolts off and then when i took the front cover off this is what i saw. Perfectly in time without trying, thought it was picture worthy.
LoganS, Schrowang and oldestof11 ended up stopping by and checking out the tear down on their way to the Indiana diesel shootout. Great guys! Thanks for the help!
Er Mah Gerd heard gersket!
Yes I used zip ties and they worked great after cleaning the oil off the tappets. It just seemed more safe to me.
I thought I was done with the tear down at this point hence the paper towels covering everything. Then I decided that I wanted to check all the main and rod bearings and while i was there clean up the engine bay which is desperately needed.
I dont remember installing a leveling kit :lolly:
Lets get on to what i plan on doing. Most of it will probably change considering i have added a lot of stuff to my list just within the last two weeks of working on the truck.
As of now the plan is....
(Virgin) 160 P-pump conversion - Thanks to Big Blue24.
7 X .012 Injectors - Big Blue24 will be building these for me.
4k valve springs.
Heavy duty push tubes.
Bigger camshaft of some sort, still haven't decided.
Manual valve body.
Gated shifter.
Add a billet output shaft.
Single turbo, maybe 72 with spool flange if i can get a hold of one.
Lots of cleaning and painting.
custom transmission lines and fuel lines.
A lot of clean up work and time to make things look pretty.
Now picture time!
This is my girl, so innocent to what is about to happen to her
Was rotating the engine around to get the pump nut and damper bolts off and then when i took the front cover off this is what i saw. Perfectly in time without trying, thought it was picture worthy.
LoganS, Schrowang and oldestof11 ended up stopping by and checking out the tear down on their way to the Indiana diesel shootout. Great guys! Thanks for the help!
Er Mah Gerd heard gersket!
Yes I used zip ties and they worked great after cleaning the oil off the tappets. It just seemed more safe to me.
I thought I was done with the tear down at this point hence the paper towels covering everything. Then I decided that I wanted to check all the main and rod bearings and while i was there clean up the engine bay which is desperately needed.
I dont remember installing a leveling kit :lolly:
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