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Normally, I'd be willing to remove mine tomorrow and take pictures, but since I tried (unsuccessfully) to cut off my left thumb at work this morning, I won't be doing anything like that for a while. In fact, I can barely type right now.I've never been inside a flywheel cover so I'm not sure I'll know what I'll be looking at.
Imagine that you're looking at the back side of it. Clockwise and counter clockwise movement.I don't quite understand the direction of movement I am looking for from the clutch to test the flywheel.
Wrong. Diesels don't run rich/lean like gas engines do. If your timing is 15* out, advanced or retarded, it's WAY too far out of time. Ideally, you shouldn't have any smoke out of your exhaust at a warm idle.Now I'm at 9600 feet and its currently 15 degrees out. I just assumed I'm running rich hence the grey smoke until it warms up. That make sense or am I wrong? The smoke seems to be worse when it is colder out. Once the truck is warm it mostly disappears, at idle I might have a slight amount of grey smoke coming out the exhaust.
Yes.I figure with my limited knowledge if I'm changing the DMF to a new SMF then I need a new clutch.
Ideally, yes. If it still looks good, you can reuse the clutch, but it's best if you replace it at that time. I say that, but I've been running the same SMF kit since 2006 and it's in it's third vehicle. I don't tow very often and it's rare that I tow heavy loads when I do tow.Don't I also need a new clutch if I drop the tranny and have it rebuilt?
When I was working on these for a living, my boss had a 1995 F350 that he towed heavily with. The DMF went bad at about 205,000 miles. The clutch could have been reused, but since it was getting a new flywheel, it got a new clutch. He didn't buy the truck new. He also only used it a couple of years before he traded up to a '99 model F350.