"Harrycarry250" (Harrycarry250)
12/15/2014 at 18:12 • Filed to: None
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"Harrycarry250" (Harrycarry250)
12/15/2014 at 18:12 • Filed to: None | 6
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Hello all,
It has been almost a year since I last wrote on the misadventures of my 6.9. In the year since I have been dormant a whopping amount of work has... yet to be completed.
Although the project has been dormant over the last year or so it is not because there was no work to be done it is because, as with all car projects, the funds dwindled.
Yet!
There has been development over the last month! As all of you know, the grey 6.9 is currently running on its transplanted powerplant from the blue donor car. The motor we pulled and crammed into the Chief ended up having a burnt up valve on the number one cylinder. Resulting in poor compression on number one, there were also bad numbers across the board. In the last month I have had the heads pulled and all the valve seats mended, and threw on a new timing chain on both sides while I was there. With that, there is a solid 150 psi on all cylinders, and that progress bring it one step closer to road readiness. All that I have left is to replace the faulty transmission kick-down switch under the throttle pedal.
Over the next month or so I will be daily driving the beast to iron any other kinks come through. Feel free to ask any questions, and anyone in the Dallas/Fort Worth area is welcome to come around and take a look!
I want to pull out my go pro and make some videos of it as well.
Finally, have some photos of the work, happy holidays!!!
What a beautiful lump!
jsemerica
> Harrycarry250
12/15/2014 at 18:32 |
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No idea what I'm looking at, are these the hard fuel lines?
BorkBorkBjork
> Harrycarry250
12/15/2014 at 18:47 |
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Awesome, I love some big-bore Mercs!
No shame in putting car projects on hold when the funds run dry. My LeMons car has been sitting for over a year after blowing up at Eagle Canyon Raceway, and since I got married earlier this year I have no funds to get it running again... yet.
About where are you at in DFW? My shop (where the Thunderbird lies in temporary slumber) is in Irving.
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Harrycarry250
> BorkBorkBjork
12/16/2014 at 00:09 |
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The chief lives in Carrollton, I live in the farther down into Dallas. Right around the Northwest highway exit off Central.
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Harrycarry250
> jsemerica
12/16/2014 at 00:11 |
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Yup, that silver thing is your intake and that plate is a perfectly balanced teeter totter thing that connects to a fuel plunger in the black thing and it send fuel through those hard lines into the injectors. Some real fancy terminology there...
rabidpenguin
> Harrycarry250
12/16/2014 at 13:03 |
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Is that K-jetronic? So much clutter with that style of injection.
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Harrycarry250
> rabidpenguin
12/18/2014 at 21:54 |
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Yes sir,
K-Jet mechanical fuel injection. Never came with D-Jet.
desertdog5051
> Harrycarry250
01/29/2015 at 22:33 |
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My fondest memories of Mercs was the 450 SEL 6.9 that my former employer gave me to drive. (in like 1989?), It was a 1978 or 79. That car was amazing. It had features not found on most cars of that time. Power!!, God, it had it in droves. Thanks for the post.