My From Start to Finish 6.0L Build

[Rocket Man]

Over the weekend I did manage to get 4 more pistons installed.

Most of my time though was spent with my sick Beagle and keeping him comfortable. I also had to install a new overhead garage door. The old one was taken out by a failed torsion spring. Wow, lucky that thing failed without anything underneath it. I did the install myself and used a torsions spring conversion called EZ torsion spring. You use a drill to wind the spring. Pretty simple.

Installed the other pistons tonight. However, going to remove #7 in the next day or two. It did not go in as easy as the others so I'm concerned I might have damaged one of the rings. Better safe then sorry.

I will post pictures when I get a chance.

My Malamute just got over being sick, he had a throat infection. Hope your buddy gets well soon.

 

[Tonyrodz]

My Malamute just got over being sick, he had a throat infection. Hope your buddy gets well soon.

I didn't even know that was possible for a dog. How'd you know he was sick? Wasn't eating?

 

[RAMurphy]

My Malamute just got over being sick, he had a throat infection. Hope your buddy gets well soon.

Glad your buddy is feeling better. My Beagle is feeling better. He has good and bad days. Keeping him comfortable. He goes in later this week for an ultrasound and then a an appointment with an oncologist to see if his cancer is treatable and hopefully come up with a game plan. He's still such a happy dog and like me keeps pushing himself to far.

 

[Rocket Man]

I didn't even know that was possible for a dog. How'd you know he was sick? Wasn't eating?

He was coughing at times, coughed up phlegm a few times and when he ate he would cough up bits of his food.

Glad your buddy is feeling better. My Beagle is feeling better. He has good and bad days. Keeping him comfortable. He goes in later this week for an ultrasound and then a an appointment with an oncologist to see if his cancer is treatable and hopefully come up with a game plan. He's still such a happy dog and like me keeps pushing himself to far.

I really hope it’s treatable. It’s so hard when an animal is sick because they can’t tell us if it hurts. My last dog, an Alaskan Husky, got cancer. We fought it for a long time. I still really miss him. Hoping for the best for your buddy and for strength for you.

 

[RAMurphy]

He was coughing at times, coughed up phlegm a few times and when he ate he would cough up bits of his food.

I really hope it’s treatable. It’s so hard when an animal is sick because they can’t tell us if it hurts. My last dog, an Alaskan Husky, got cancer. We fought it for a long time. I still really miss him. Hoping for the best for your buddy and for strength for you.

Thank you Mark.

“Such short little lives our dogs have to spend with us, and they spend most of it waiting for us to come home each day. It is amazing how much love and laughter they bring into our lives and even how much closer we become with each other because of them.”

 

[RAMurphy]

Here are the pictures. I did pull the number 7 piston and the rings all looked good. Reinstalled and it went in much easier this time. One of the rings must of got slightly hung up in the compressor.



Left side - 1, 3, 5 and 7



Right side - 2, 4, 6 and 8

 

[Rocket Man]

Everything is so shiny.

 

[Fless]

Everything is so shiny.

Right now it's carbon neutral.

 

[iamdub]

Right now it's carbon neutral.

 

[iamdub]

... I did the install myself and used a torsions spring conversion called EZ torsion spring. You use a drill to wind the spring. Pretty simple.

I was an overhead door tech in a past life and our primary product was Wayne-Dalton. They had a "TorqueMaster" torsion system which was a spring or springs inside of a tube, wound on the ends by a screw gun or drill. I've always liked the traditional torsion spring system better. That one you got is like a combination of the two. I like it.