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  1. bike-maker

    Not your Average Dana 60 Swap

    Got 1 more. Never mentioned the steering damper setup. I ran without one for about the first year. I didn’t want it masking any death wobble or steering issues. But I figured it couldn’t hurt. When I originally ordered my big pile of parts from Rock Auto to rebuild the axles, I screwed up and...
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    Post up your custom fuel pump/filtration setups....

    I’ve been running the same rubber fuel lines for about 10 years with no issues. Just make sure to use the good stuff rated for diesel/oil - The cheap stuff will start falling apart on the inside and clog up your fuel system. Especially if you run biodiesel. I also have cheapo 3/8” clear in-line...
  3. bike-maker

    Not your Average Dana 60 Swap

    IIRC, the swaps I’ve seen using the sway bar; they used the Superduty bar upside down, and built about a 4” spacer underneath the frame rails to mount the pivot bushings.
  4. bike-maker

    Not your Average Dana 60 Swap

    No sway bar, no excessive body roll. The way the control arms are mounted to the axle by way of two massive bushings pretty much acts as it’s own sway bar. For those wanting any kind of articulation out of the front axle, throw the stock control arms away and go 4-link.
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    Broken A/C Heater Vent door86 f250

    I fixed mine years ago, and didn’t document anything. But from what I do remember, I had to pull the glove box out and take off the dash pad. They always break off right where they hinge, leaving the door itself intact. I went to Home Depot and got the smallest hinges they had - like you’d see...
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    Not your Average Dana 60 Swap

    Guess I posted some pictures prematurely^^ So the Superduty hitch uses 8 bolts instead of six, none of which lined up particularly well on my frame. And there were a bunch of shims involved in using those bolts. Didn’t seem sturdy enough to me. The outside of the New hitch was 1/4” wider...
  7. bike-maker

    Not your Average Dana 60 Swap

    On to the next; spare tire storage. IIRC a couple of the threads I linked to in the beginning started talking about trying to fit the newer, bigger spare tire in the stock location. I regularly haul a slide in camper packed with kids, dogs, food, whiskey, guns, etc., so carrying a full-size...
  8. bike-maker

    Not your Average Dana 60 Swap

    Something I learned the hard way during this swap: my pushrod between the booster and master cylinder was too long by about .080”. I didn’t notice it at first because the master was a pretty tight fit in the booster. It engaged the master just enough that it closed off the transfer ports and...
  9. bike-maker

    Not your Average Dana 60 Swap

    Yep, no RABS fanciness on the old bullnose. Took the stock proportioning valve apart, and gutted / drilled it so it’s essentially just a junction block now.
  10. bike-maker

    Not your Average Dana 60 Swap

    So how’s it work? I’ve seen a significant amount of past debate on this forum about the effects of changing to a different bore size master cylinder. I just went from a 1-1/8” master to 1-1/2” so here’s my thoughts: My thinking was that the bigger volume of fluid in the bigger master would...
  11. bike-maker

    Not your Average Dana 60 Swap

    Since my booster came from a junkyard, I ordered a rebuild kit from pirate jack, fluffed, buffed, and threw it all back together. Excellent write from the sticky. https://www.oilburners.net/threads/hydroboost-reseal-tutorial-long.72688/
  12. bike-maker

    Not your Average Dana 60 Swap

    The adapter debacle: pressure line addition. Older booster pressure lines are a SAE o-ring fitting. Newer are the same style of o-ring fitting, but a metric version. But the newer booster also has the addition of a short piece of hard line that adapts that o-ring fitting to special internal...
  13. bike-maker

    Not your Average Dana 60 Swap

    The adapter debacle...... The best tidbit of info I’ve found on all the fitting sizes; you can look up hoses, steering box etc. by application on the Napa website, scroll down and look at the specifications, and it tells you the size / type of fittings used. My original brake lines were SAE...
  14. bike-maker

    Not your Average Dana 60 Swap

    Input rod difference Left is stock Superduty, right is modified. Cut about an inch out, then threaded both ends to 7/16” fine. Coupling nut with copious amounts of red loc-tite (just on one end to lock it in place),and a jam nut = the added benefit of being able to adjust the height of the...
  15. bike-maker

    Not your Average Dana 60 Swap

    This is the latest change; I keep thinking I’ve replaced every possible part on my truck that might have been original, but a few weeks ago it proved me wrong once again. The original brake master cylinder started leaking from the input side a while ago, and like any leak, it only got worse: to...
  16. bike-maker

    Not your Average Dana 60 Swap

    Howdy everyone, I’ve been meaning to update this post for a while now (looks to be almost 3 years now). Haven’t been around much in the last few years, been busy with my own personal drama, but this isn’t the place for that so....... I’ve made some more improvements to the ol’ truck, and...
  17. bike-maker

    Parts to salvage from 89 parts truck for my 86.

    When I swapped mine over to diesel I bought an 89 parts truck for the engine/trans. Off the top of my head..... Parts from the 89 I used: Steering column / wheel Front seat Door panels Rear window Side windows in the doors Wing windows assemblies are slightly different but will work Doors...
  18. bike-maker

    ATS 088 turbo install

    Same setup as I have: it’s one of the early 088 systems where they used the air box off of an 085. Only seen a handful of them, but important to note you can’t necessarily go off the air box if it’s the rectangular 085 version.
  19. bike-maker

    ATS 088 turbo install

    Bout damn time....... I checked in the tech articles; there are threads on 2nd gen Banks and Hypermax installs, but nothing for any of the ATS kits.......which are arguably the most common and seem to be more of a pain as far as installation goes. Might be nice for the next poor bastard...
  20. bike-maker

    Any interest in a 6.9 block?

    I’d be interested in that. Do you know if it’s a later block? Press in or bolt in piston squirters? All I need to build a new motor is a good 6.9 block. Weren’t you in the Salem area? I’m just down in Albany.
  21. bike-maker

    Power steering cooler thought

    I never did anything to open up the cooler in the bottom of the radiator. Maybe next time I'm under the truck I'll take a mirror and have a look in the holes. And it's a Champion 3 row radiator.
  22. bike-maker

    C6 to ZF5 clutch hydraulics question

    My 84 had the holes, maybe 83 is different? My reasoning for using the existing master cylinder was so I didn't have to deal with bleeding it. And I'm a cheap bastard. Over course, when I was wrestling the IDI in place, the valve cover pinched off the hydraulic line between the master and...
  23. bike-maker

    C6 to ZF5 clutch hydraulics question

    There should be a dummy plate bolted in the firewall. I used a 89 donor for mine as well, so I'm guessing the issue your going to find is that the bolt pattern is different: 83-86 had the studs on the master horizontal with its bore. On the 87-91 the studs are diagonal. I just drilled new holes...
  24. bike-maker

    Super Duty Axle Swap

    Glad to help. On mine, I also had about an inch of free play on the slip joint (after move my the axle 1" back - still need to rectify that). And it seems backwards, but the tightest the joint got was as full droop - when the rear axle extends toward the ground, the increasing arch of the leaf...
  25. bike-maker

    Bull Nose Crew Cab owners please chime in

    Mine are aluminum.

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