Isuzu I-Mark diesel

[maxfax]

Nice..   Not a terrible price either.. The one's for the tractor were about $120 a shot..  And of course they were all crap....

[truckinwagen]

ouch, that had to hurt...

anyway, the glowplugs are on the way(6-10 day shipping though, which sucks) and the Thermostart should be here in a day or two.

hoping to have my car back on the road sometime next week.

-Owen

[truckinwagen]

thermostart came, and was installed this morning!

no pics, as I was in a real hurry to get it going(sharing a car while mine was down) and it was pouring rain.
pics to come with good weather.

it works(not as well as I had hoped, but it is effective) it takes much longer than I had expected to get the car to start.
it takes 45+ seconds to be hot enough to start, which makes me nervous(as I am used to glow plugs that would be dead by then)

anyway, I have glow plugs coming, so hopefully I will only need this thing when it gets really cold.

-Owen

[R.O.R-2.0]

the thermo start is the thing that actually shoots FIRE into your intake, correct? wont that make it obscenely dirty after a while?

[truckinwagen]

yep, it is, and it probably will yes.
but I dont intend to use it much, just when the 12V glow plugs are not up to the task.

next problem though is that the thermostart is not airtight, it leaks boost through it...

not sure what to do about that.

-Owen

[maxfax]

Where's your leak??  Where it threads in, or the fuel inlet??   

[truckinwagen]

it leaks around the fuel inlet, between the outside of the fuel inlet and the inside of the power lug.

no real way to seal it, anything used would have to withstand the heat of the thing at full glow.
maybe smear it with JB weld?

anyway, rear end is making noise now, gotta go look at that next...

[R.O.R-2.0]

hahaha.. ate the pinion bearing out of it!

(hopefully its just a u-point)

[truckinwagen]

nope, broke the torque tube off the diff.

its gone, gonna move on.

[maxfax]

it leaks around the fuel inlet, between the outside of the fuel inlet and the inside of the power lug.

 JB weld isn't real happy about expansions and crontaction, especially when put in hot places..  Could you braze it??


Nice job on the torque tube!!   Broken parts means your gaining in power doesn't it???

[truckinwagen]

nope on the brazing, the leak is where the insulator for the power connection goes(plastic)

and the torque tube broke when I swerved to miss someone who cut me off, and ran over a big rock that banged on the axle HARD.

gonna retire the car, might save the motor.

it could be fixed(by fabbing up mounts and installing a different rear end) but I dont have the time or the space to do that...

gonna try to find a small pickup that I can afford(not much)

-Owen

[R.O.R-2.0]

yea, just drop that engine in something else..

sorry for the injury to your car 

[truckinwagen]

yeah, life is like that sometimes...

not sure if the motor will be saved, dont have the space to keep it...

-Owen

[truckinwagen]

just bought a 1991 isuzu pickup 4x4 with a 2.6 four cylinder.
single cab, short bed.

not perfect, but for $2000 its one hell of a truck!

not gonna save the diesel, just too much work right now, and I have nowhere to keep it.

I will be removing all the stuff that I can to sell, but I will be without a diesel for a while

-Owen

[theman53]

Do you have the fuel pump left? If it is around 8-14 psi I would want it.