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  1. Ethan Smith

    6.9 idi doing funny things

    So my idi does this crazy thing. It starts really getting torquey and rips hard right before it runs outta fuel. As if there's a fuel restriction and when the tank starts to pull air its either running proper. (I've got a racor prefilter before the stock filter) or something crazy. Seriously...
  2. Ethan Smith

    Burnt out starter

    So my old man, bless his soul, just HAD to move my truck, because well, he had to move it. I told him the key sticks so pull it back when it fires or the starter wont disengage. Well.....he didnt.... So the starter was smoking when tried turning it over, oh well, 200 bucks, what the hell else...
  3. Ethan Smith

    Ch as nge the oil or just the filter?

    So I'm burning around a quart every few hundred miles. Runs great just didnt replace the valve stem seals when I 'rebuilt' the motor. Figure that's where the oils going. Think I can just swap the oil filter out and not drain the oil? Its gonna burn that shit anyways.
  4. Ethan Smith

    Use the right glowplugs

    Just a friendly reminder to use the proper glowplugs in your oilburner. Lucky for me only two got in the cylinder and only did minor damage to the pistons.
  5. Ethan Smith

    Bent torque converter

    So i didnt unbolt the torque converter from the flywheel and bent the outward shaft on the torque converter a degree or two. Anybody reckon i could bang it back with a hamber and save a few hundred bucks? The welds still look good. How much is a new one anyhow? 2nd gear was going out so i figure...
  6. Ethan Smith

    Another CIA tracker device

    So sure enough when im tearing down my motor to pull it apart i come across this guy. Hidden in the lower radiator hose. Knew they were spying on me still. Anybody got any clue what its doing in there? Reckon the aliens coulda been in on this.
  7. Ethan Smith

    Penny pinchin backyard rebuild

    Howdy boys, turns out bosch is a great glowplug if you like to tear engines apart. Two broke off already inside and im not even pulling the rest until the heads are off. Question is while the engines out ive got the money to put about one or two new things besideshead gaskets in her before i...
  8. Ethan Smith

    Strange glow plugs

    Howdy yall. I found this here glowplug in my truck. I sure as hell know this aint stock. What the heck kinda new technology is this? Where the wire coming out the tip like that? Maybe i got one of them fancy duramax and dont even know it. Need to check my liscence plate and see if im really...
  9. Ethan Smith

    CIA tracker device

    Yall i need to know what the heck this thingamajiggers doing in my truck. Its suppose to be all mechanical but this box sure aint got no gears in it. Is it some kinda device the fbi planted in the rig? The chinese? Its fot an antenna and everythang. Pretty advanced to be chinese if you ask me.
  10. Ethan Smith

    Dual racor filters

    Howdy everybody, hope the trucks are running good. I got a question i wanted to be sure about, figured id ask before doing. I bought a new racor 220 for my f350, and it turns out she dont need it due to her getting tore down soon anyhow. So i got to thinking of putting it inline after my racor...
  11. Ethan Smith

    Flywheel stripping

    Howdy everybody, hope your trucks running good. I was under mine the other day changing the tranny fluid on the c6 and noticed wear on my flywheel the other day. I replaced the starter 6 or 7k ago and it was a fancy one, spun real fast. Any ideas what the wear is? Ive heard some starters got 8...
  12. Ethan Smith

    kick down rod delete

    Hey yall, im getting mighty sick of my c6 dropping a gear passing and the whatnot on the road. I get great torque in third for what im doing then itl downshift thanks to that rod and im way outta my power curve. i adjusted the vacuum modulator and that helped, but every once in a while it still...
  13. Ethan Smith

    intercooler on a 6.9 hypermax

    Howdy yall, i was seeing about picking up an intercooler off a 2001 7.3 and jeryy rigging it up to my 1985 6.9 hypermax f350. By the way i reckon i just tube that output of my turbine to the intercooler, and run the aur back to the intake right? Am i missing something here?
  14. Ethan Smith

    gutting an old tranny

    Im rebuilding a c6 for my 85 6.9 and turns out my buddy has got an e40d on the hill from the same year. I cant find 6 pinion planetaries for my tranny for less that 350 bucks and by my reckoning ill take my friend up on buying that old e40d and gut the thing. anybody got some imput on parts...
  15. Ethan Smith

    What would you do?

    So i went and picked up an f350 the guy said had a hypermax on it. I had the intention of pulling it off and using it on my 6.9 f250 which is low in compression but bulletproof otherwise. Well when i picked it up holy cow, all cylinders are running at 400+ psi except one thats dead from a...
  16. Ethan Smith

    Blocked up racor filter

    So somehow i realized that taking two miles to get up to 55 isnt normal on my 6.9, so i finally got around to replacing the filter on the 220 racor thats plumbed ahead of the stock filter. Would you believe it on the top of the mount says 8-96, i hoped it was a milage somehow but i think the...
  17. Ethan Smith

    Reboring old 6.9 block

    Howdy yall! So i got an old rust block of my buddies ive been tearing apart. Scrapped some good parts off it, but crank burnt up good running low on oil. So anyhow i figured its roughly an 86 or 87 block i went in and asked them to mag the thing for cracks and see about boring it up and having...

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