I'd really appreciate that too. What pieces did you use to hook everything
up? All that kind of stuff.
Thanks in advance.
Bob
Pennsville, NJ
-----Original Message-----
From: WillTier@aol.com <WillTier@aol.com>
To: dakota-truck@buffnet.net <dakota-truck@buffnet.net>
Date: Monday, August 09, 1999 7:09 PM
Subject: Re: DML: M1 mainifold - atten: Jon
>In a message dated 8/8/99 11:31:22 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
durling@ibm.net
>writes:
>
><< Jon,
> didyou ever get the M1 mainifold to fit your truck? If you did when you
> have the time could you post some picks. Also, if you really have the
> time maybe you could post some info on what you did to make it work.
> >>
>
>Jeff
>
>Jon did get it on and working but Jon musta found a woman or sumpin cause
we
>hain't heard from him in a couple of weeks. He went to Oshkosh and usually
>falls in love with some airplane and comes home, head fer da airport and
>starts takin lessons again but atleast contacts us once in a while until he
>gets back to normal but not this time, hasn't replied to any messages or
>nuttin, gotta be a woman :-)
>
>Anyway I also have one on mine, just getting it going and not fine tuned
yet.
>There are some snags but Jon and I worked most of them out. One real snag I
>ran into was using the new style intake gasket (rubber on steel vs cork).
The
>MPI has 3 dowel holes in each end and the new style gasket doesn't
accomodate
>the middle hole at the rear. I have it back on with High temp silicone in
the
>holes and around the hole areas and it has made one jaunt without any oil
>leaking out. The first trip without silicone had oil blowing up through the
>dowel hole over the gasket. There are several things that you have to do to
>make it work. If you have a pre 96 then you will not have a place for the
EGR
>stuff. I just left it off but not enough time to figure out if it is a
>problem the local mechs say no problem. If you have air you need to trim
both
>the A/C-Alt bracket around the thermostat housing and trim the right rear
>mounting on the A/C pump (you have to leave that bolt out. There is also no
>accomodations for the support brackets to the Alt and Pump (I fabbed up a
>better than nothing deal). There are 2 sensors with no place to put them.
One
>is the gauge temp sender (I have it tucked between the heater hose and
>Thermostat housing and seems to work OK) and the other is the intake air
temp
>sensor which I have wire tied to the fuel injection rail. Jon did some
>experimenting with temps at different locations and he said this spot is
>closest to actual readings in the stock intake. I also had to trim the rear
>of the manifold to clear the Distributor. You also need to get bolts (grade
5
>or better in odd lengths (2 3/4) but I found them at McMaster-Carr) And
there
>is no or insufficient ports for the vacuum hook ups. We found that a vacuum
>tree from around a 80ish ford pickup or van either straight 6 or v8 will
work
>but need to get at a scrap yard as we could not find a ford dealer that
could
>locate them (they said they were obsolete?). You also need to get the old
>style (larger) thermostat housing and thermostat. I got mine from summit
>(chrome neck around 8.99 I think) and you will need to play with vacuum
hose
>legths and such. Jon and I were going to document all that we found out to
>try to make it easier for the rest of you guys that were thinking about the
>MPI but Jon disappeared :-) I think I covered about all the info I have on
it
>but if you have any more questions I'll try to help ya atleast until Jon
>surfaces :-)
>
>Bill
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