Mild 6.0L Build Suggestions?

[Matthew Jeschke]

De trunnioned! These rocker arms cleaned up awesome in the harbor freight parts cleaner. The needle bearings were in really gd shape even at 240k miles. Once cleaned, aside from pushrod and valve wear marks, could have mistaken it for a new part.

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[wjburken]

De trunnioned! These rocker arms cleaned up awesome in the harbor freight parts cleaner. The needle bearings were in really gd shape even at 240k miles. Once cleaned, aside from pushrod and valve wear marks, could have mistaken it for a new part.

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Looks good.

What did you use for a detergent in your cleaner.

If you haven’t, take a piece of regular aluminum foil and cut a piece that fits corner to corner without touching the sides and hold the foil by an edge in the solution for 60s and then look at how much dimpling you get in the foil.

If you do this at temperature with and without detergent, you should see more dimpling (cavitation activity) with the detergent.

This will give a base line of how your cleaner is operating so in a month or a year, or whenever, you can run the test again and see if you have lost performance in your cleaner due to a bad transducer or generator.

 

[Matthew Jeschke]

I am using the stuff from harbor freight. It was sold near the parts cleaner. I don't believe it is a solvent, but something more like simple green.

I want to follow up with a short dip in mineral spirits before I install anything in the motor. Then dip in break in oil (non detergent high zinc).

I did the aluminum foil test per your suggestion. Great advice. I hadn't thought of that. It was in for atat least 60s. Appears uneffected.

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[wjburken]

I am using the stuff from harbor freight. It was sold near the parts cleaner. I don't believe it is a solvent, but something more like simple green.

I want to follow up with a short dip in mineral spirits before I install anything in the motor. Then dip in break in oil (non detergent high zinc).

I did the aluminum foil test per your suggestion. Great advice. I hadn't thought of that. It was in for atat least 60s. Appears uneffected.

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Looks like you used “heavy duty” foil. You need to use regular, cheap foil.

 

[wjburken]

I am using the stuff from harbor freight. It was sold near the parts cleaner. I don't believe it is a solvent, but something more like simple green.

I want to follow up with a short dip in mineral spirits before I install anything in the motor. Then dip in break in oil (non detergent high zinc).

I did the aluminum foil test per your suggestion. Great advice. I hadn't thought of that. It was in for atat least 60s. Appears uneffected.

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Here is a video that shows what I’m talking about. Not sure why she folds it in half, but shows the effect I’m describing on the foil.

 

[Matthew Jeschke]

I just have a solvent tub. It has a little pump in it but is not ultrasonic. wish it was but I'm not that rich :/

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[wjburken]

I just have a solvent tub. It has a little pump in it but is not ultrasonic. wish it was but I'm not that rich :/

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Ha! My bad!

I thought you bought a ultrasonic cleaner from Harbor Freight.
https://www.harborfreight.com/25-liter-ultrasonic-cleaner-63256.html

 

[Matthew Jeschke]

Ha! My bad!

I thought you bought a ultrasonic cleaner from Harbor Freight.
https://www.harborfreight.com/25-liter-ultrasonic-cleaner-63256.html

Wow, I didnt know they sold that :/ I may have been tempted to buy it instead.


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[Matthew Jeschke]

I've begun taking apart the pistons, and rocker arms. A guy sold me the full float pistons and rods, only they had the LQ4 pistons. I removed those pistons earlier. I was unsure how to remove the wrist pin as despite they are full float it's still in there pretty good. I watched Youtube and about had a heart attack. The first video that came up was a guy smacking the wrist pin with a hammer.

Bit of off topic discussion. I've been a bit torn about doing this. I LOVE mechanic work and am ALWAYS tinkering. A big part of my day job is video production. I have all of my own equipment I use in my business and lots of experience producing videos.

I've long since thought, I should really make videos for the truck. I hate to be vain but I cannot make videos for free. Youtube model was quite enticing years ago but is very difficult to qualify for revenue sharing now (requires 1000+ subscribers & substantial view time each month).

I do make ad revenue but not on truck videos. I'd likely need to launch a whole new channel / brand for that. Not sure if that would be something you guys would be interested in, maybe I should just do it anyways? Long story short, that guy on youtube made me cringe. In the least I'm going to probably throw up this video I quick made...

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1FyUZ3HkeiEYnRJB2yKFYt-DjxODsqcWO/view?usp=sharing

 

[Matthew Jeschke]

My #7 cylinder was hydrolocked and snapped the rod. I'm trying to figure out if the crankshaft can be reused? I'm not quite sure how to test it... I have watched lots of youtube to see how machine shops test it. When I pull the block I'll take out the pistons and see how well the crank spins. Not sure if there's much more I can do than that? Magnaflux it to look for stress cracks?