Another quick update.
After work yesterday, I retrieved a set of injectors which I had earlier dropped off at Diesel Fuel Injection Services in St Louis. As their box states, they are The Original, since 1946. That's a long time in the diesel business, and these guys and gals know their stuff.
I took them 3 sets of injectors, and asked them to test them, pick the best set, and then rebuild and tune the best set.
As a side note, the smell of these fresh and clean injectors takes me to a happy place, in the same way that racing gasoline triggers something magic in the brain.
These injectors smell like some kind of industrial, automotive, almost medical cleanliness. I think it's a Stanadyne product that DFI uses in their shop. Anyway, it's the kind of smell that you will never forget.
I also welded in a couple more plate gussets, linking the main hoop and the cross bar for the shoulder, and worked on the steering shaft seal to the firewall. I should finish the steering shaft seal tonight.
My transmission guy says he'll have one of them done by the weekend. Depending on which trans is ready to pick up, I may be putting the engine and trans into the truck for the final time. Hip Hip Hooray.
Steve.