I replaced the thermostat and came up with an adapter for the sensor this morning. The thermostat seems to have solved the over heating issue. Gauge still doesn't work. The adapter may not have down in the water enough or the dash gauge may just be broke. I may just go with an external gauge and its sensor.

 

Quick question not about the truck. Is that a diy cnc router so similar you are using for a work bench?

 

yep it is a diy cnc router and it does like to collect the tools. hopefully one day it will be a diy cnc plasma cutter, if i ever get around to getting a plasma cutter.


Jason

 

Very cool. I am build a cnc gantry router with travels of 50x30x15. All the ballscrews are from a haas vf5. Frame is 8x4x.25 stainless tubing. Table will be 48 x 28 x 2.0 aluminum and running a bt40 spindle. I have built numerous smaller machines and this will hopefully be my last. ..once the frame is filled with sand it should weigh in excess of 2k lbs

 

this one has a working area of 48x48x8. It is rack and pinion with a gear reduction on the x and Y and a ball screw on the Z

 

I ordered a exhaust stud replacement kit from leanords diesel with a couple of extra studs for the turbo side, hopefully they are the same size.

 

Just a side note on the overheating issue, seems like you solved it but for all the others out there, if you use the by-pass hose for the heater core like most of us are doing, make sure that it is an open loop so coolant always flows. On my new truck it wasn't and the factory set-up was to close off the flow when not on heat. I solved it by swapping out the valve that when the flow is stopped to the core, it re-routes it back in a loop to the engine. The motor requires an open loop to circulate coolant before the t-stat opens.

 

Well went to go get plates today, so I could start working out the finer details. Come to find out Maryland changed their rules regarding historic plates. As of Oct 31 the vehicle must be 30 years old to qualify for historic plates instead of 20 years. I'm at loss as what to do. Find an older truck? Part it out? try and sell it as a uncompleted project? Not sure just really P***ed off right now that I did not put plates on it sooner as I would have been grandfathered.

 

wow that sucks. We don't have to worry about this sort of thing in texas too much. but I did ask to have my registration changed to diesel there was no problem. that said and I don't have any real advice to offer
there should be some type of workaround? register as normal and pay a penalty for failing emissions, or some such, or penalty registration, farm register, out of state register, is the engine newer than the truck? there should be some way to move forward
good luck

 

FWIW: Maine is a non-resident registration state. I think you can just mail in a power-of-attorney with the appropriate paperwork. (Though, I think that it is 25 years...)