Today when I had some time to get over and work on the truck a bit I decided to find the engine stamp and check out more info on the 305V6. Ran into a problem when my engine stamp showed 3050i907, everything I could find didn't mention 'i' in the lettering.
Anyone shed some light on this engine stamp?
Picture of Engine Stamp I also threw the battery charge on a battery in the bay (had about 1.5v on it, it's toast of course) dribbled a bit of gas in the carb and worked the butterfly, turned the fan blade and got the crank to turn, checked oil which was clean (surprise!) but had definitely lost some viscosity. For the fun, I boosted the charger and got lights on the dash, cigarette lighter got hot, radio worked and the engine turned!!!
Not nearly enough to catch on it's own but with 2 fresh quarts of oil poured into the crank for some thickness and some starter fluid I think she may fire up!
Not worried about driving anywhere under it's own power, the clutch is out, pedal shoots to the floor if you even look at it. Looks like a nice hydraulic leak from a hard line has to do with it. But would be cool to hear the engine fire up once before I yank it.
Well that was all for today, there was enough mice crap to keep me cleaning for hours.
Will be starting on rear area teardown tomorrow after trying to fire once more.
