So what did you do with your truck today?

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I fixed a tractor tire for a guy who said that he fills his with water. He made a pump so that he can empty most of the water out before winter time. He said that what's left over doesn't affect anything when it freezes.
A lot of guys put antifreeze in the tire with the water. keeps it from freezing and helps keep it from rotting the rims out. Works real well from what I hear.
Out here it doesn't get cold enough to worry about freezing the tires. Shoot you can get away with straight water in your cooling system for the most part.
 

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Today I got the old starter and "new" alternator shipped out to their respective places. I swung into Napa for a band clamp for Diego because one is about ready to give out.

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They were $14 on Amazon, plus tax. This was 18 and change after tax and says Made in USA on it.

Pretty sure I found the vibration in Diego. The pictures don't show how bad it is. Worst part of it? This is a two year old Motorcraft rotor!

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I love this little harbor freight aluminum jack. I think I paid $70 for it and I've beat the crap out of it and it just keeps going.

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Wouldn’t work up here. They’d freeze. Calcium filled is common around my area
That's a hell of a ride when you hit road gear and the water is frozen.

I have been hearing about beet juice being the new big thing, supposedly it doesn't freeze and doesn't eat the wheels like calcium chloride.

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Tires full of water.
Good deal. No worry about freezing in Florida.
There is a product called "Rim Guard" it is actually Beet juice.
weighs 11 lbs per gallon. Water is around 7 Lbs.
Some used Window washer fluid and some Anti Freeze.
Calcium Cloride (salt) is what most use, but will eventually
rust out the Rims.

We had water in the rear tires on our Loaders at work.
Added 600 Lbs to ea tire.
Good example how that helped.
Crew that had the section of Hwy where our section ended, lost part of a lane down the hill one winter.
I loaded up 3 sections of "K" Rail (those section,s of concrete ) onto our equipment Trailer. They weigh 6K Lbs ea. Hauled them out to their area. Used their exact Loader as ours. A Ford A-62. Chain up the Rail to the Bucket, lift up, and the rear end is coming up off the ground. Had sort of a balancing point where I got it just above the deck. Now all the weight is on the front tires, backed up enough to clear the trailer, sat it down, maneuvered it around to the other side of the road, but it was the low side on inside curve.
Now majority of weight is on L/F tire, with az end light, getting it into position.

That was a seat puckering fun time getting those 3 into position.

These little home use tractors need rear weight, if not, with a loaded bucket and raised, the center of gravity changes, and you can go az over tea kettle.

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chillman88, I have one of those little HF Jacks, works good for the most part.
Lots of guys are putting on large wheels so they roll around better, especially the off road guys.

They sell them as aluminum jacks. Only thing Aluminum is the 2 side pieces.
Still a heavy little sucker.
I was using it today to raise up the Mercedes so I could change the oil.
I don`t even think of using it on the F250, have the 3 tons for that.

What country is USA?


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Yesterday the replacement alternator for Diego showed up. Today I opened the box and filed a return for the brand new part....

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Kinda looks to me like someone swapped out the voltage regulator and returned it for full credit. Regardless, it's going right back.
William Deering has had two or three alternators damaged in shipping no matter how well he packs so I'm guessing that yours got ran over with a forklift LOL.
 

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chillman88, I have one of those little HF Jacks, works good for the most part.
Lots of guys are putting on large wheels so they roll around better, especially the off road guys.

They sell them as aluminum jacks. Only thing Aluminum is the 2 side pieces.
Still a heavy little sucker.
I was using it today to raise up the Mercedes so I could change the oil.
I don`t even think of using it on the F250, have the 3 tons for that.

Yeah but it's significantly lighter than my 3 ton jack so it's way easier to carry around everywhere. It's not fun picking up the three ton jack and carrying it out in the back yard!

What country is USA?

The way everything has been lately, I think it must be a province in China or something LOL
 

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Did it make a big difference in noise level?
Much better, shuts the engine and tranny up nicely
I’ve already done the wether stripping and window channels but will do the window seals when they come and insulate the doors that will be the real test
 

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finally found time to insulate the cab!
So that was you sneaking around in my back yard taking pictures.
Dang look`s exactly like my 85 in the back yard now....same color.
Looks good.
I read some guys use this stuff...

But after using the dynamatt, I covered the back wall and side wall with it.
Tin Foil front with sticky foam backing. Figured can`t hurt to have a second layer. Dang stuff has gone up $10 bucks since I bought it.

Good time to clean up the plastic panels with paint. Color is Canyon red.
Had a auto paint figure out the color, used a back side of a door panel as it wasn`t fade`d. They came up with Aztec Red. pretty close match.
They will put it in Rattle Cans.

My rear drivers side window leakes a bit, good time to pull it and reseal.
Don`t know what black sticky goop Ford used, lookin to find some.

been looking for one of those bench seats. Too bad they don`t have Head rest.

Goat
 

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Dumb question, but once you put the stuff down, how do you find where bolt holes go for seats and seatbelts? Do they go all the way through so you poke them for other side?
 

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Did you scrape the tar like factory goop down to bare metal before putting it down, or just put it down on top of it? I was looking at doing this too.
 

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