I havent done much for updating, but I had to pull the timing cover off and replace the camshaft. My fault, apparently I didnt get a shim reseated when I was reshimming the valves. Anyhow to do the timing I had to pull the cover as my crank pulley had no mark to lineup the timing. While I was in there I installed a new tesnioner and chain which really wasnt needed, but what the heck. I got the valves somewhat close, as good as I could as half the shims are NLA from mitsubishi. I had 2 valves with .002 clearnace before, that definitely needed to be addressed. This was a few weeks of waiting for parts from all over the country.
Other things, well I had this 2000rpm rattle that I had first thought was the valves, well I think it was a fuel knock or something. It ended up being a dirty fuel filter. I had bought 2, but sat on them and had no gotten around to replacing one yet. The replacement and purge of the new filter seemed to fix it.
I've done a few janky temporary wiring jobs to some not so important stuff as I just havent been motivated to wrench on it much as it's been running good and I'm in the middle of a transmission rebuild on my mighty max with a bearing puller thats nla... I ghetto rigged the intercooler fan so I can run it when im doing longer trips. It definitely helps, even without a hood scoop. Then We went night wheeling the other day and I hadnt wired up the hella 700ffs yet so I had a few minutes before my friend was ready and I just ran some temporary wiring to run them. I'm definitely glad I did, they worked awesome for plane ol halogen.
My house battery setup is only slightly done and mounted. The battery mounting is done, just not tied down in the pic. I need to build a small encasement for my power, that ill be on the list when I build a sleeping setup/fridge setup in the back. Right now everything is good and safe, just not pretty. I also had to run a temporary locker power wire from the aux battery when we went wheeling. Another wiring thing that will take awhile to get sorted. I've got 2 switch panels to wire up as well, along with an entire relay box. I'll probably get into it later this week, but I needed a break from this. I wasted my entire summer working on it, and basically missed summer. Now im stuck with ************ fall oregon weather, and waiting on a fishing boat that was suppose to be delivered over a month ago.
As of now, I'm basically just racking up miles on the rig to make sure everything is good. I just picked up an entire front end rebuild from sankei 555. all tie rods, idler arm, pitman arm, lower ball joints with spare, and a spare set of uppers as they are already new oem installed with the second gen oca,. Oh and I will put new lca bushings in as well. That will probably happen next week or when we get a few dry days.
The thing needs taller gearing. with 4.625 and 35s with the diesel v5mt3 transmission im turning 2200rpm at 60. it sounds good, but the 2/3 shift is brutal up hills. You gotta rev it way out to get it into boost on on the upshift, otherwise it falls on it's face. I will be turning the pump up and the boost up even more. Probably shoot for 14 to 15lbs, and I'll open up the fuel a bit pre boost and on boost. I just need to run my new egt probe and get a boost gauge setup.
I was going to upgrade to a second gen radiator and clutch fan shroud, but the new radiator I bought from mitzybitz came in broken. the overflow nipple was broke and gone, and it was suppose to be a koyo radiator and they sent me a nissen... I'm still dealing with that, pretty frustrating there, My current radiator is a older 2.5 brass that has a partially rotted out cooling fin core. it climbs up temps pretty good when pulling a hill, especially with a light boat, and even worse in the summer. It's just not up to the task and I wanted a proper sized radiator for the 4m40. The stock second gen 4m40 seems like a good fit. I thought it would be too big but width wise it seems fine. I should double check the height now that I think about it.
Other fun stuff. I need to put a hole in my hood and some sort of scoop or louvers to get better airflow through the intercooler. I really dont feel like trying to do a front mount right now. I've been trying to get dave from above to sell me his turbo hood, but hes not having it
There is a bunch of small stuff to finish up, but for now I just wanna enjoy it a bit. I absolutely love this thing!
