Half a can of starting fluid.....??? What were they thinking?

This week i asked to take on a little bigger project. Some colleges of mine have been using a man lift but for the past couple weeks the motor has been making a little more nose then a diesel should. About a week ago they were trying to start it and of course not being mechanic's they went through half a can of starting fluid. Now the motor is done. Iv been doing some research on the motor, its a Lambardini Two cylinder the company was bought out by koler. I still have some more research to do but my plan is to have the injectors sent in too north land diesel, check valve adjustment and compression then go from there.

hours....I honestly have not been keeping track but i have been working 40 plus hours every week since iv been out of my fall classes.

skully

The bus runs

last week i shorted a bus and it would not start. I then got on the Internet with new flyer "the bus manufactures" and i chatted back and forth with a Mr Butch Hartley. He gave me tips ,advice and most importantly testing procedures. What the problem turned out to be is A burnt up a CPU or also called a rack. Its a type of data buss for the vehicle. I also burnt up a few relays.

Learnd my lesson

To any one out there please learn from my mistake. This week i have been trying to get thies buses running so my company can use them for turnaround, to haul workers back and forth to the refinery. The buses have been sitting in the back Field for over three months and the battries are dead as dead. I stuck a 24 volt charger on them for a day and it started up. I then continued to let them charge for a few hours. but the last bus i went to turn off wouldn't fricken turn off. I tryed unplugging the coolant sensors and i also flipped a kill switch that was on the dash. still running.......then i did the no no i flipped the battery shut off. I think i fried the brain to the bus. What i should of done is stuck a book over the air intake. If i could only go back in time i would. Wheres a delorean when you need one.

Home project

 I took a 5mge motor and put it into a Toyota pickup

 this is the motor installed

 the donor car i bought on Cragslist

 i had some fun destroying the car :)

The car

The truck

Something iv learned from this project......take your time trace wires well and MAKE SURE YOU HAVE THE RIGHT WIRING SHEMATICS! just because it says on the internet its for an 1983 dosnt mean its for an 83 "but dont we belive every thing we read on the internet"?

my internship at Western refinery services this quarter has been going great. I'm always learning new things. last week I learned that an ABS hook up to the a Bendix can tell you things that would take hours to figure out. example of that is taking a wheel jacking it up and checking the sensor for an AC signal. The computer would tell you what wheel is out wheather its the sensors bad or you have an open circute there. Another thing iv learned not so much through work but on my own project at home is web site forums is a good tool for a mechanic. At home im doing a motor swap into a pickup. Basically taking an old a** truck and fuel injectioning it. The guys on the forum have been some help. But a little warning to anyone using them. Brush off the smack talk it happens people are jerks. Questions are questions just try to think the questions out befor asking them online. No one wants to waste there time.

exhaust horse power

well its 4:30 am and i cant figure out why when you let off the throttle the jake brakes work. i know jakes open the exhaust valve on the power stroke  thus making the engin use horse power to slow the truck instead of speeding up. The jake itself is made up of springs and valves that are controlled by oil pressur. To get to them the valve cover comes off on a isx cummins they will be on the exhaust side on the rockers there will be three of them," power exhaust and injector". the  exhaust you will see a round thimbel with a snap ring around it. when you press down on that it willrock back slightly when you press foword it will rock foword like an inch that is the exhaust  valve. if you ever take the snap ring off the internals are simple litterly two springs and a shaft.