Todays update. It snowed around these parts last night, so to while away the hours waiting for morning, I headed out to the barn for a little Listeroid therapy. At the end of the night, I was cold, tired, diesel soaked and actually further behind than when I started!
I put the flywheels on, and got the gib keys actually fitting. Yay. Success. Then I got the fuel tank installed, fuel put in it, and the lines to the injector pumps full of fuel. Yay. Success. Then I thought, "well. May as well prime this baby up and see where that gets us" and that is when the wheels fell off.
I couldn't get fuel up to the injectors for love nor money. I cranked, and I bled, and I cranked some more. I finally decided that there must be some kind of rational explanation for this, so I went back to the basics. I tightened every fuel fitting on the beast, and sure enough, a couple of them were loose. No Biggee. Commence to cranking....again. Nothing on one pump but success on the other. Hmmm. Now what? So I looked, and I poked, and I fumed all to no avail. Figuring that there has to be something I am missing, I took the flywheel off to look at things a little closer. It seems that one of the camshaft actuated lifters under the fuel injector pump was backed almost all the way down. The lifter was going up and down, but it wasn't even contacting the bottom of the pump! That explains the lack of fuel to the injector. So I adjusted the bolt assembly enough to get fuel up to the injector, but after thinking about it for a while today, I think I am going to take both IPs off, measure the good lifter at TDC, and adjust the other one so it is the same. Is there actually a value I should be looking for? Any one know?
In the process of all this prodding around the fuel system, I have discovered that the outboard IP lever assembly doesn't really line up very well with the IP rack, causing the rack not to travel freely, and kind of bind. It looks like it is just a matter of some shimming and maybe some grinding. Here's hoping. I promise to take some pictures (for the more visual among us) the next time I am out working, but I am house bound for the rest of the evening - Skype call to my Grandson in 24 minutes. Cant miss that. Even for a Listeroid!