Ed
Try the library, some times they still have them
Glen
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ed Weldon" <23.weldon@comcast.net>
To: "Bryan Savage" <b.a.savage@wildblue.net>; "List Land Speed"
<land-speed@autox.team.net>
Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2007 5:57 PM
Subject: Re: [Land-speed] (NON-lsr) New truck-->Old truck
> Bryan-- thanks for the tips. I found the service manuals on ebay, buy it
> now prices for original books and CD, $150 and $40 respectively. I'm
> debating which way to go. I may well spend an evening searching the online
> card catalogs of some of the local libraries. But I suspect the travel
> and
> the cost to photocopy pages may eat up a significant part of the money I'd
> spend for the CD.
> Redoing the compression check as you suggest I think will tell me
> something.
> And I'm thinking if I take the valve cover off, go buy the special valve
> adjusting tool setup and an assortmant of shims (which I'll need in the
> future anyway) and do some leakdown testing at various valve clearances on
> the #2 cylinder I may get a better handle on the problem that may suggest
> a
> quick fix rather than a complete head rebuild.
> All to often in this life I've approached a repair with a preconceived
> notion of the cause only to find absolutely no evidence of the damage once
> I
> got everything apart. And at that point the subtle evidence traces are
> all
> too often gone.
> Thanks again....Ed
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bryan Savage" <b.a.savage@wildblue.net>
> To: "Ed Weldon" <23.weldon@comcast.net>; "List Land Speed"
> <land-speed@autox.team.net>
> Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2007 3:54 PM
> Subject: Re: [Land-speed] (NON-lsr) New truck-->Old truck
>
>
>>
>> Ed,
>> The first thing I would do in find out if there is a library
>> that has the factory shop manuals available. Probably 2
>> volumes.
>> Find out how to pull the plugs, usually an amazingly difficult
>> job on modern engines.
>> Then check the compression again to determine if it is rings or
>> valves/head gasket -- you know the old compression before adding
>> oil to the cylinders and after.
>> The head gasket is the most likely source of the problem. My son
>> has 285,000 on his old 1989 Toyota PU and it just passed Smog.
>> A new clutch and water pump is all that has been done.
>> Searching the Internet will provide a lot of good information Ed.
>> Hope that helps, Bryan
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