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    oil drain back

    ironically enough Gary, I was lurking here for the fun of it and thought I'd look into the last time I posted anything, and this popped up first. After That Damn Truck burned me out, I found new family friendly hobbies other than pulling my motor and transmission 4 times a year. Solomon is...
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    Time to start working on Big Ed again.

    Did you consider painting the bumpers and the running boards body color? Might be cool.
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    HE351VE Remote Mount Turbo

    I lurk every now and then. I like following a guy's project who's doing something different from the norm. I ended up buying an air filter from a small cabover truck and bolting it down in the bed. It worked very well, but was a major PITA to clean up any time I filled the bed with mulch...
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    HE351VE Remote Mount Turbo

    When I first built my system, I stubbed the intake pipe up into the front corner of the bed and since I didn't have a good system to keep it out of the weather right away, I put a plastic bag over it and tied it tight. when I drove it home, I forgot about the bag. You want to talk about black...
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    Ceramic coated pistons

    digging deep deep deep into forced memory loss now. I tore it down and rebuilt it but was given the wrong piston bore tolerance which caused all 8 to scuff, Ken rebuilt it, I pulled it back down after I blew the head gaskets. Now that I see those pics, I think the crank was blue when I put it...
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    Official 2012 rally

    They burn too hot to keep hair alive?
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    Rear main seal replacement time

    Sounds so easy, Heath. You forgot to mention the contortion positions, hitting your head, cramps in you neck, working blind, crap fallling in your eyes. . .
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    50 mpg before VW TDI's.......

    Buy it. My brother had one of those as his first vehicle and just for curiosity sake been scanning the classifieds. Darrin, wanna go for a ride?
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    Can i do this?

    You already have a turbo that'll make 25 psi all day--probably should pay for it first, though.
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    Picked up a NICE ONE today Boys!,..

    I love these posts Darrin. I like to count how many replies it takes before someone questions who on earth would pay that much for an old truck.
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    Spending my Tax Return on DT466 Parts

    what's a tax return? Is that like every year I send in a giant packet of papers and a check to the IRS only the opposite?
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    funny sound behind me

    Usually a funny sound behind me is followed by a bad smell. Happens all the time, but Amy doesn't think it's very funny.
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    got my factory turbo on, and all i can say is wow!!!

    That's cool. Where'd you get the PSD kit?
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    Night Moose CARNAGE!!!!

    I'm familiar with that occurence
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    Falls on its face

    Would those be the shity DPS injectors from me? I tried to talk you out of them.LOL Easy check on the throttle cable: Pull the throttle to Wide Open by hand and mark how far it goes, then have someone hop in and floor the pedal and compare. Adjusting if it differs::dunno If you have a...
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