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1987 B250 - Painkiller
| | | Re: What Did You do To your Van Today? | Joined: Feb 2018 Posts: 116 Likes: 2 member | member Joined: Feb 2018 Posts: 116 Likes: 2 | Replaced the u-joints in the axle shaft yesterday. No more big clunk when I put it into gear. I was also clunking sometimes on gear shifts. So a test drive will be in order today to verify that part too. Although I'm debating trying to replace the steering shaft rag joint this morning...
On non van related work I pulled the leaf springs off the back of my 2008 Silverado (Daily driver work truck), replaced all those bushings and installed a 2" lift spring. Front lift and shocks all around next weekend. Big tires in a couple months when I have more money. I'm excited to drive around for a couple months being that jackass with the lifted truck on the skinny stock tires. Haha!
- Rich
1991 Dodge B250 Zephyr Conversion. "Bi-frost" 89,000-ish original miles and counting. - 318TBI; has headwork and other bolt on upgrades. Runs strong and smooth! - Powertrax locker - 3" aluminum radiator. - Rear air springs, rebuilt suspension, steering stabilizer. | | | Re: What Did You do To your Van Today? | Joined: Feb 2016 Posts: 1,266 Likes: 43 old hand | old hand Joined: Feb 2016 Posts: 1,266 Likes: 43 | Finally got my exhaust done today, mirrored on the other side
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1987 B250 - Painkiller
| | | Re: What Did You do To your Van Today? | Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 12,107 Likes: 37 Maniac | Maniac Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 12,107 Likes: 37 | Nice!
Today I put two quarts of oil in the engine since it wasn't even registering on the dipstick. Now the check engine light doesn't come on any more. I need to find out where my oil and radiator fluid are going....
Windows- they're what make a van worth owning! | | | Re: What Did You do To your Van Today? | Joined: Apr 2010 Posts: 2,847 Likes: 42 veteran | OP veteran Joined: Apr 2010 Posts: 2,847 Likes: 42 | Ouch Reed. 2 quarts low? How much oil capacity does your engine have?
My absent minded professor neighbor has a BMW M coupe with oil consumption issues and when it is low I can hear him coming, or when starting, and yell at him to check his oil and the dipstick comes out dry. This has happened 3 times so far, i can just hear the poor engine clacking away. It has a 6 quart sump and one time required 4 quarts to register on the dipstick.
Last November I did a cross country road trip with my dad, doing some sight seeing through California Utah and Arizona starting with a fresh batch of oil. Some 4500 miles later I was about 3/4 of a quart low and topped it up. I then put on another 4000 miles on that oil, and the level never again budged, much to my surprise.
This was the first time I used Pennzoil Platinum 10w-30 SN+, which also made my engine significantly quieter than the Mobil 1 0w-40 I had been using. M1 0w-40 is kind of a flagship oil, I know I do not need any cold weather starting viscosity, its just a good oil, just noisy in comparison to Pennzoil platinum in my engine. In fact every previous oil has been noisy compared to this elixer.
Anyway I was so surprised not only that the engine was so much quieter with the PP 10w-30, but that oil consumption seemed to stop completely at about 4500 miles into the oil change. I changed it at ~8500 miles, and used PP 10w-30 high mileage this time. The PP HM is a bit thicker than the Non HM 10w-30, and even smoother/quieter in my 318.
Before I went on the road trip I drained the 9 year old all aluminum silla radiator (which began seeping at 9 months of age, and stopped completely with one bars leak ginger root tab) and refilled it. In Alabama I noticed the overflow tank was losing some level, and I added one bars leak ginger root tab, and the radiator/ overflow level has not budged since.
Hope your oil and coolant consumption issues are not serious. | | | Re: What Did You do To your Van Today? | Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 12,107 Likes: 37 Maniac | Maniac Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 12,107 Likes: 37 | I hope they are not serious, either. This poor engine has overheated badly twice, each time for a different problem, and also lost alll oil pressure once while I was on the highway due to a failed aftermarket oil pressure gauge sending unit. Normally I am pretty good about checking my oil level, but I let it get away form me this time. However, my oil consumption is definitely up and I am loosing coolant somewhere. There are no leaks onto the ground and no smoke out the tailpipe other than normal condensation burning off first thing in the morning, but I can smell coolant as soon as the engine starts and I go through oil fairly quickly. To add to the confusion, my cooling system holds pressure up to 16 psi. Soooooo, where is the coolant going? Where is the oil going? I need to take a weekend and do some investigating, if only work would let up.
Windows- they're what make a van worth owning! | | | Re: What Did You do To your Van Today? | Joined: Jul 2019 Posts: 29 newbie | newbie Joined: Jul 2019 Posts: 29 | i started building out the on side of the van,have bed and and front storage built, now waiting on my amp to arrive because everybody knows you can have a van with a good system Ha! i still need to figure out what i’m covering everything with. | | | Re: What Did You do To your Van Today? | Joined: Oct 2016 Posts: 294 Likes: 6 enthusiast | enthusiast Joined: Oct 2016 Posts: 294 Likes: 6 | Detailed the Safari van I've been working on, it had been sitting under a tree for several years. I changed the spark plugs and it still runs rough and wants to stall out, I can smell gas on the dipstick with new oil so I think the cpi spider injection has gone bad.
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