Hello!

This page, and the project itself, is dedicated to Richard Thomas Jean. I suspect he would have approved of what I'm doing to his truck. Uncle Richard, I wish you could have seen this.

Special thanks to:

• Seth Emerdinger, for making a school autoshop project out of rebuilding and magna-fluxing my cylinder heads and going through the turbocharger;
  
• Trevor Emerdinger, for providing muscle, an extra hand, and encouraging thoughts when needed, and for understanding when the truck wasn't ready to go on our summer trip;
  
• Jim Basaker (my dad), for providing moral support along with the occasionaly-needed dose of common sense;
  
• Dave Shanks, for lending me his air compressor, other assorted tools, knowledge, patience, and moral support;
  
• Gene Luo, for helping me out on acquiring the turbocharger assembly;
  
• Calvin (towcat on TDS), for allowing me to harvest various trucks for parts (notably the timing gear cover and injector pump drive gear cover) for this project;
  
• Cameron (Radcam on TDS), for providing me with a diagram on how the turbo assembly goes together and for giving me a spare turbo boost gauge;
  
• Bill Miller, for allowing me to use the oil cooler pressure tester that he built himself, for only the cost of shipping;
  
• Pete Clark, for providing updated diagrams when my made-in-1983 shop manual wasn't accurate or detailed enough;
  
• Mel Agne, for taking the time to write up an article on head gasket replacement that provided such an excellent reference for myself as well as countless other people;
  
• and all of the BOOB men of TheDieselStop.com
  

Pictured above is my 1984 Ford F-250HD pickup that I inherited in 2001. This truck is equipped with a 6.9 litre International-Harvester indirect-injected naturally aspirated diesel engine, along with a 4 speed Borg-Warner T-19 manual transmission and four wheel drive. Sitting on the hood is my girlfriend, Robin.