So what did you do with your truck today?

[scott westley]

Finally got around to doing my truck project,got laid off so perfect time.pulled out a 460 A/T.
1986 6.9 studded going in, low mile pump turned all the way up.ATS Aurora 2000 turbo kit, 3 inch D/P
3.5 exhaust 8 inch long sprint car muffler,no packing in it.Zf 5speed with gasser gears in it,better ratio.
stock injectors popped at 1900 psi.nozzles were great, took apart other injectors for shims.
will be intercooled also. 1997 cc short box

Also since i was changing everything i moved engine 1 inch forward for more firewall clearance.
7.3 rocker arms were also put in the 6.9

 

[IDIoit]

new up pipes?

I'm sorry. Every time I see the title of this thread, I think someone named Carolyn McCarthy is in here talking about banning "the pipe thing that goes up"... ;)

www.oilburners.net

factory/093 up pipes.

anyone have a factory turbo or the 093 ATS with a leaky up pipe? ive got the fix for you! unfortunately, in order for me to build one of these for you, i would need your lower Y they are made to order! $700 shipped back to you. made from 304SS

www.oilburners.net

had a request for pics! so heres some IDI **** for ya!

 

[rreegg]

Driving (the tdi) through Oregon for a few day and saw this beefy blacked out obs, no badging but would be cool if idi

 

[nelstomlinson]

had a request for pics! so heres some IDI **** for ya!

The black truck has an ATS turbo, per the letters on the air box. Looks as if I should get the lower y off it and on it's way to you. That turbo is going to go on the next engine I rebuild.

 

[nelstomlinson]

Also since i was changing everything i moved engine 1 inch forward for more firewall clearance.

Could you give us some details and pictures? What did that do for clearance in the front?

 

[IDIBRONCO]

It wasn't anything too big, but the results sure were. I lowered the air pressure in the rear tires on the Blue Truck from 50 to 35 PSI. I have to say that I LOVE IT! The ride was impressively smooth. I think that tomorrow, before I head out of state, I'm going to try lowering the front ones from 50 to 45 PSI and see how that does. I don't want to go much lower than that. At least this type of experimenting is free. Plus it's easy to reverse if I don't like it for some reason.

 

[ihc1470]

Changed the oil, oil filter, and fuel filter. First time since I have owned the truck. I had put 4000 miles on it and the oil was changed just before I bought it. Fuel filter was marked Feb 2022. Ran to town and bought a filter wrench as the ten or so around here that I had none fit. Also picked up a drain plug gasket as what was on there had seen better days, maybe years? Would guess it may have even been the original the shape it was in.

Cleaned out the cab blowing most of the dirt and dust out. Taking the Mrs. to town tomorrow so need to win a few points. Washed the outside.

Did some measuring and thinking on how I want to mount boxes under the flat bed.

 

[Old Goat]

Yeah if you don`t take them to town for some Window Shopping, or buy them a new Dress once a year, they get mean on you.


Goat

 

[nelstomlinson]

Did some measuring and thinking on how I want to mount boxes under the flat bed.

I too have a flatbed, and a box that needs to go under it. Give us some pictures when you get it figured out, please.

 

[IDIBRONCO]

I went to Kearney, NE again. Nothing unusual happened. I did see a huge dust devil. It was a lot darker about a minute before I took this picture, but I was trying to get closer.

 

[Old Goat]

Seen those a lot in the desert during the summer.
Over water my Dad called them a "Water Spout".


Goat

 

[KansasIDI]

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I restored my gauge cluster for my service truck. I also did the one from my 90 F350 parts truck.

The paint on the larger needles isn’t quite dry yet, so it looks a touch off.

The cluster from the parts truck has completely dried, looks pretty good if I do say so myself…

Fixin to do the one in my 86

 

[KansasIDI]

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The lighting is not very good

 

[Kdo58]

Installed a cb, gmrs radio, and a back up camera

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[Old Goat]

What is a GMRS Radio? Something to with GPS?
Nice install.

I have a bunch of old CB`s, first one a SBC SideBander II 23, then when 40`s came out had it converted to 40 channels and a few upper channels, along with a 100W Linear.

Use to be a lot of fun with them back in the 70`s.


Goat