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  1. smokin150

    Fuel Delivery Problem

    Just had the old truck towed home for the second time in less than 48 hours. Heres the scoop, Truck sat for 6 months while I was overseas working, come home, make a 6 hour round trip with no problems, the next morning get up to take the dogs to the vet, truck fires off and runs fine for...
  2. smokin150

    let the Magic smoke out...

    ok, driving down the road this morning and poof... magic smoke from the instrument cluster area... all gauges but the speedo droped to zero or the low end of range... pulled the cluster to find several broken points in the board. has anyone tried to repair them and if so how, or should i just...
  3. smokin150

    Help.... Steam/Smoke or something coming out from under the hood...

    like the title says, i have what appears to be smoke or steam coming from under the hood when the truck is running. i only notice it at idle. i have had the cdr off and it looks like someone rigged it because there is a hollowed out socket holding two halves together... i dont think its water...
  4. smokin150

    water pump question

    real quick, cant seem to find what im looking for with the search feature, anyone know what the thread size and pitch is for the water pumps on our old trucks, might have an electric fan and clutch asm that might just work, cant recall the thread pitch and all tho. Thanks guys.
  5. smokin150

    quick question kinda important about oil

    Ran low on oil this morning on the way to work... I'm in the middle of nowhere, I have 2qts of rotella, there is a guy I'm working with that has 2qts of semi synthetic oil for a gasser. I'm in a pinch, what damage can I do by blending the two till I can get to the store tonight? Thanks
  6. smokin150

    Yet another glow plug thread...

    With the cold season upon me, i gavé notices m'y wts light not coming on and when it does it's off very fast and clicks... Knowing what is the cause , I get out my test light and find cyl 5,7,and 8 gp burnt out... Ok replace them, upon removal cyl 7 has some white cheese looking stuff on the...
  7. smokin150

    Spicer 4800 2 speed box question

    Found one at the junkyard, on an old ford dump with a 460 and a speed, was wondering if I can use it as an aux overdrive unit... I think it was originally an underdrive setup... The yard wants 150$ Sent from my EVO using Tapatalk
  8. smokin150

    Burning out glow plugs

    Got an odd one here... Two weeks ago I replaced the glow plugs on the four corners of the engine they are now burnt out again but just on the four corners. What's going on here? is there a way to see why the corners are burning out before the center ones do they were replaced with the original...
  9. smokin150

    IP question

    I've probably asked this but the search function with my phone sucks.... my auto advance on the side of the IP is now leaking, there's a diesel at the junkyard but peices are missing from the IP on that one... how much do I have to remove to get the advance off and replace it with a block off...
  10. smokin150

    Fuel Leak >.<

    of course, its tax time and the ol girl wants to start acting funny, heres the scoop, fired her up, ran her to the store to get a pack of smokes, then back home.... however on the way home i start smelling fuel... strong, pop the hood and wa'la i find the source, its coming out of the side of...
  11. smokin150

    time for a clutch....

    OK after 129k of pulling a lot of weight my clutch is finally starting to slip a little... looking for ideas for replacements that would work better than oe. I found a stage 3 ceramic set with flywheel for what they claim will fit my truck but it says with minor mods... its a 12.25 in clutch set...
  12. smokin150

    dead headlight

    alrighty, here we go again, i was driving down the road, hit a deer with the left side of the truck, knocked out the headlight.... replaced asm and bulb with a new one now have no left headlight? i got no power at the pigtail, but power at the switch going in and out.... what am i missing? gotta...
  13. smokin150

    leaking fuel heater..... help!!!!

    heres the scoop, was driving down the hwy, smelled diesel, pulled over and poped the hood thinking one of the injector caps started leaking.... nope, fuel heater. now i have replaced both o-rings with viton seals and its still leaking from what appears to be inside the connection, two questions...
  14. smokin150

    Compression Problems? head or block?

    ok, heres a new problem... replaced injectors and injection pump due to rough cold start/run and the fact that they had about 225k miles on them. now, i changed all that out when the engine was warm and it fired up and ran great, let it sit for two days and, nada, no change. still ran like it...
  15. smokin150

    loud pop, now cold idle issues

    So here's the story, my last short haul I made with the rig to Carolina was going great till I headed home then bang, one loud pop, almost like a backfire, lots of smoke then it cleared up and ran fine. Went to start it today and it ran like it had a heavy miss and dumped black/blue smoke for...
  16. smokin150

    brain pickin' time

    OK guys, need some ideas.... I bought a 14bolt full float rear end for my truck last week and had it delivered this am, the problem is I thought it was just going to be the axle, turns out its the whole rear end of the truck, frame bed and all. I am now tasked with removing it and am lost how to...
  17. smokin150

    headlight woes

    OK, commingle home last night my lights went out and magic smoke was released from the dash, upon further review the switch and harness is toast. I have replacements for both but was looking for the post with the relay mods and can't find it... figured since I was in there I'd knock it out...
  18. smokin150

    fuel pressure question

    OK, now I know many questions about fuel pressure and where to test from have been asked... I've got one that idk if it has been asked so here we go... When checking pressure I know we take it from the schraider valve on the filter head and for me I show 5psi stable since my recent electric...
  19. smokin150

    semi off topic question

    OK, thinking of doing some rebadging on my truck, my question is on the international logo. Which one would be more appropriate... the harvester emblem or diamond star logo?
  20. smokin150

    cold idle problem and new truck question

    OK so here's the thing, since August of last year I've put 21982.7 miles on my truck, 7000 of which has been in the last month. As I was leaving Cali headed back to the east coast truck started running really crappy, blowing black and blue smoke. I stopped changed the filter and added some howes...
  21. smokin150

    tryin to get hold of user cbarm.

    Call or pm me please Phone 757 two one 7 65 one 9 Mods can move if I got this in the wrong place.
  22. smokin150

    towing question...

    OK, here's the deal... got my modded f150, just finished installing a gm14 bolt full float rear, got heavy duty springs up front and really heavy duty springs in the rear, what I'm trying to find out is what is the Max allowed/recommended GCWR for a stock 250 with a n/a 7.3 and a zf trans? I'm...
  23. smokin150

    power steering blow out

    OK.... so here's the story, otw home from picking up a new bever-tail trailer, I here a pop.... not to loud but def herd it... get back to the shop, steering is tight, pump wining real bad like low fluid so I check.... no fluid in the can, look on the ground and wala, its pouring out of the pit...
  24. smokin150

    part needed... cant find

    Hey y'all... found an almost complete turbo kit at the local scrap yard... no turbo or intake hat... I'm not worried about the turbo but I need an intake hat and don't know where to look... any ideas?
  25. smokin150

    New noise, New concern

    After replacing the wonderfully worn out autocrack glow plugs wit new zd9s( and finding out they are actually smaller diameter points then zd9 plugs which allowed carbon to build around them... much fun *eye rolls* ) I now have a few new issues, first being an increase in blue smoke and a random...

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