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75RamRunner said:
I've read the multispark CD boxes can roast the tach's. might still do it to try it. Its a newer Autometer Gauge.

EDIT: to be clear it would be landed on the neg terminal as you said but the input or something from the box to coil ****s it off. So i've heard, never tried it. First time for everything though :homer:

EDIT.2: I can't imagine the autometer is a square wave signal, it read the signal from the 6AL which i believe is a sine wave like the sniper.....



505", ive had a few 505s in B-body mopar cars and they're really a great plant. Gobs of driveable torque, they don't want to spin much past 5500 though, 6-6200 through the beams max usually. which reminds me i need to see if i set a redline in the sniper :grinpimp:
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Thats some solid ****ing torque from 505"
 
Bebop said:
I've also read the same thing. But I've also read that it works fine for some people...

MSD also has a tach adapter for a different style of tach
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I'm going to land it on the negative tonight and see what happens, i was digging through my box of go fast parts and i have another tach sitting in there that 0-10k and the one in it is 0-8k, must've swapped it at some point so if it fries it i have spare.

I have some white/grey smoke coming out around the #1-#3 header flange area with RPM, doesn't do it at idle and only puff with revving then is gone, doesn't do it cruising either.

It doesn't sound like an exhaust leak and the area under the valve cover in that region looks dry so I don't think oil is dripping on it. Going to keep driving it around and see if it persists. i was chalking it up to a new header gasket burning in and my greasy hands all over the headers but its not constant and is specific to revving. Its not coming out of the exhaust pipe just puffing under the hood.
 
Maybe Fastspec2 has an idea?

What do you use to drive an Autometer tach with a Sniper2?
 
Well she couldn't let it be that easy on me

I've been chasing an RPM associated oil leak and its been getting bigger/worse but does not do it at idle. Its most prevalent on the drivers side and its spraying the body of the engine mount, starter, frame, and you guess it, the headers. Steering's hose are free from cracks/leaks, checked the valve cover gaskets and changed to a different set of covers, pretty much narrowed it down to the oil pan gasket itself. I'm thinking there's a windage tray in there and it just didn't seal to the pan rail on the block, which sucks.

So I ordered new gaskets that will be here tomorrow, I'm half tempted to just RTV a tube and a half between the pan and the block and see if it holds......I've done worse.
 
Bebop said:
Put a gopro under the hood ?
Remove the hood and go driving?
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Yes and no. The engine cage/shocks block pretty much all visibility to that area from the tire, the best spot is laying under with your head next to the noise maker tubes. Super cool spot for your face while the thing is running :flipoff2:

My dad made a good point about wrapping the pump/pan with clean white rags to help narrow down the spray area. Going to try that tonight before I pull the pan
 
75RamRunner said:
My dad made a good point about wrapping the pump/pan with clean white rags to help narrow down the spray area. Going to try that tonight before I pull the pan
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Make sure you got plenty of fire extinguishers on hand. That's how you start a good fire.
 
don't know the stroke of your engine, but this 4.150-stroke gasket worked great for my 440 (mine was actually the #2339 with the standard 3.750 stroke), and if it doesn't have the right depth for your stroke you could always get two of them and cut out the center windage portions and use just the outer multi-o-ring side edge on both sides of your tray

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Mad Max said:
don't know the stroke of your engine, but this 4.150-stroke gasket worked great for my 440 (mine was actually the #2339 with the standard 3.750 stroke), and if it doesn't have the right depth for your stroke you could always get two of them and cut out the center windage portions and use just the outer multi-o-ring side edge on both sides of your tray

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You are the second source I've seen for that windage tray......

I might give that a go when i get back if i haven't solved it
 
i may have found the culprit last night. I started just twisting and putting sockets on bolts on that side of the engine and the remote oil filter adapter was clocked 1/4" turn out from bottoming. Doesnt sound like a lot but on 3/4-16 threads, i think it was enough to do it.

Didn't run it last night as the man child was already asleep and the "shop" is barely 40' from his window. Going to wrap the rags today when a buddy comes over to load his bikes for KOH and try not to burn the whole thing down.

I'm at the point I need to switch to trailer prep after tonight so whatever doesn't get solved today gets solved on the lakebed.

Which was covered in snow yesterday morning :shaking: :shaking:
 
two steps forward one step back.

Oil leak is solved, it was the oil pan gasket. I didn't want to chance the pan being the problem so I changed that as well, i had another truck pan laying around from the previous block that I knew did not leak so cleaned it and the pan rail on the block and got that all tightened up.

However i kept getting fluid on the same side hitting super weird spots, then it occurred to me the fancy pants 8hp trans fluid is brown and looks suspiciously like motor oil/hydraulic fluid. The two cooler lines are on the drivers side and would be spraying right where all my weird leaks are, those trans lines are original to the previous 727 so they're going on 8 years old. the fittings look fine and i don't have a lift anymore to raise it up and put it in gear to see where its coming from, so I changed one of the lines. And found out I'm out of fluid. So picking up the unicorn piss Mopar bottles from the dealer today, going to change the other line because its too cheap and stupid not to just remake real fast, top off the levels and then she's going in the trailer and whatever is left will be dealt with on the lake bed.

The more gruesome option is the TC somehow is out just enough its coming from the seal there, which aint getting fixed before hammers. There also the option i somehow cracked the case somewhere, which would be a little wild given the previous motors fate from just driving when it failed and this one not getting a chance to even get beat on yet.
 
ridered3 said:
Glad to see you are figuring it a little here and there! When do you head to Hammers?
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Leaving Friday AM around 5, should be on the bed around 2pm. Staying until tuesday

Anyone see's big ugly roaming around or parked getting cans thrown at it feel free to come join in and say hi
 
good luck, and have fun! "Represent!" for the Mopar Boyz n Girlz!
 
Well, she's stuffed in there

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Unfortunately the trans lines were not the source, I flexed it out with the mini-ex and had the wife get in and put it in gear and its coming from inside the bell housing, hitting the flex plate and then flinging everywhere. Either the TC is unseated just enough which I have a hard time believing as the adapters if anything erred on the side of too thick, or the input seal is roached. I guess i overstaying the welcome of a 36k mile untouched junkyard trans. I've been meaning to rebuild it anyways so i guess forced upgrades again.....

Good news is the trans was only 1.5 qts low over the weeks of testing and i bought 10 qts :grinpimp:

The leak is RPM related so i suspect trail crawling won't be much of an issue, it'll be the high speed desert stuff that i really wanted to do that ill have to limit if I want it to survive.
 
75RamRunner said:
Leaving Friday AM around 5, should be on the bed around 2pm. Staying until tuesday

Anyone see's big ugly roaming around or parked getting cans thrown at it feel free to come join in and say hi
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You are leaving today or next friday?
 
Ended up getting talking into leaving Thursday night at 8pm....

Got to Bakersfield around 2:30am and tucked in my copilot
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Woke up at 5:45 and ran the rest of the way down, but not before checking the scales at the truck stop we slept at. Extra thiccc :grinpimp:. Pulled the pass at 62mph and the exhaust brake had plenty of balls to slow her down, tapped the brake a few times and i have zero concern that she'd pull down in a hurry if the EB ever failed. She pulled 70-72mph on the straights and averaged 8mpg round trip per the liometer.

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Of course had to go to backdoor the first night, 3 hours of sleep and a 22 hour day the day prior. Seemed like the best idea i had in awhile. Cutting the stinger off made the approach way better




Unfortunately that hole was DEEP this year from the rain/snow and that big ole booty judy departure angle just wasn't going to be overcome with tire spinning. Completely unloaded the rear suspension and just sat her ass in the hole like the stubborn bitch she is. Didn't stop me from letting the BB sing a little though




Slept in the next day and then went out to the suspension tuning area. Phil at liberty mountain fab really is Shock Jesus. No videos because i smashed the go pro at chocolate thunder but she was eating whoops at 65-70mph. ear to ear grins the whole time.

Overall it was a great trip and good times with some good people i hadnt had a chance to sit around a smudge pot with in a long time. But it was not without its share of carnage

Damage List:

Lost a rear spacer and ejecto-seato the wheel assembly into the mud pit of the lake bed, that sucked. Looked like 6 of the nuts on the spacers came loose because those 6 studs looked great. Sheered two of them. Farm jack in the mud and man handling a packed full 43 was a good time.

Trans did great, checked fluid twice and it was fine, i have a suspect for the leak though

Body damage from back door, lost a tail light, tailgate has seen better days

Starter loosened up back by the dunes, by a stroked of the KOH gods i found the stud in the dirt, threaded it back in, tightened the starter and now its overshooting the flywheel...never done that before... SO i loosened it back up, held it off the mount with a wrench and it grabbed great. So short term solution would be a starter shim BUT

I think the spacer depth is wrong on the 8 bolt pattern for my 8hp75 trans. The adapter i modeled after is for a 8hp70/90, which in theory should be the same but the depth is obviously something is off. To compound on this i think the leak is the seal on the TC being pulled to far towards the engine. IT would align with leak condition being only on higher RPM and would align with the start spacing being off. So i think yanking that trans back out is in my future
 
Jesus!! 36k that's a heavy son of a bitch. What grade did you pull at 62? Foot to the floor?

On the trans....that wasnt happening before with the old motor though, right? So what has changed?
 
06h3 said:
Jesus!! 36k that's a heavy son of a bitch. What grade did you pull at 62? Foot to the floor?
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Tehachapi and that last unnamed grade out of Barstow, its super long and doesn't get steep until the end but the tankers end up going 25-30 over it.

Yes foot to the floor on a 80hp tow tune. Coolant stayed under 215 and oil under 220. That's 4th gear at around 2400rpms with the 4.10s and 37s

06h3 said:
On the trans....that wasnt happening before with the old motor though, right? So what has changed?
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Well, maybe. I had some leaks under there i thought was just the old tired motorhome motor. But the more im looking at the locations i think its from the trans. Its definitely worse with this one, but i have a feeling it was always present.
 
Short answer is not yet lol

I had a sales show for work 3 days after I got back from KOH that lasted 5 days, and with 7 acres and a 32 week pregnant wife and 2 year i had a lot of catch-ups when i got home. Still working on that list honestly, hoping end of next week ill be back to status quo and have some time to give the rig, she needs it.

I did drag it out of the shed with the mini and hang it to pressure wash all the demons away (mud).

1. I wasted the u joint in the steering shaft from the column to the orbital, so zero steering. I have another joint sitting on the shelf, i just can't remember how i got the damn thing in there. It looks like i welded the joint to the 3/4" round stocks and then fed it through from the firewall and bolts it onto the front of the orbital. So need to get that done.

2. Ordered some trans parts since its going to be out, pan with a temp probe location, domiworks has a trick adapter with a thermostat in it i got so i can clean up the trans cooler line routing. Originally when i did the swap the only supported cases for the 8hp were the bmw and charger/challenger 2wd stuff, 75 case was just different enough/new that no one had **** for it yet. Cool to see the industry supporting this trans platform.

3. After talking life plans with the wife i think im going to dump the reclining corbeua seats in the front and go fixed high backs with some more retainment. The seats are super plush and comfy but i didn't feel the safest at speed. Already have the fixed high back in the rear for the kids car seats.

4. fix the brake light/wires i smashed, tailgate if repairable maybe a new one


Also i picked up another new/old fiscal mistake right before KOH. I bought a real nice rolling chassis from a guys doing a corvette swap on his c10 back in 2019, grabbed a rotting c10 body off a farmer in oroville, bolted it together, widened the stepside fenders to fit big tire slicks, built a half ass cage, and threw a 632 big block in it. Played with it for a few months, had an opportunity to buy a bucket list car of mine and sold it off. Well the owner passed away unfortunately and his widow asked me if id take it back. We agreed on a sight unseen price with her telling me he only drove it once and it sure appears like she was telling the truth. My son thinks its the coolest thing right now so i might have to hang onto it for awhile longer. He's in the passenger seat in his Offroad race seat harnesses in during the video lol

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ridered3 said:
75RamRunner thanks for the sorta update. Saw the Dune Sport post with your RamRunner stuffed inside of it so that's what got me thinking about this thread.
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The faces on the campsites around us when I backed that out were worth the trip by themselves. Its definitely unique
 
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