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    1985 Ford 4x4 Diesel Extended Cab for sale in Michigan: originally a southern truck

    I am open to offers and trades on other types of 3/4 wheelers. A good deer rifle and other stuff? Make me an offer. Things with engines? I went out today and the rust in the corners of the cab wasn't there when there bearings went out. So anyways I would like to see someone use it, since its not...
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    1985 Ford 4x4 Diesel Extended Cab for sale in Michigan: originally a southern truck

    I thought I attached some, here's a 2nd try. Also the fuel pump is a Carrier Pump, I forgot most people here know what that is. Also I added up all the parts I have into it and I've got about $960 in it. So I'm pretty much giving the truck away with a bunch of new parts. When I first bought it...
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    1985 Ford 4x4 Diesel Extended Cab for sale in Michigan: originally a southern truck

    Well as luck would have it I spun a rob bearing in Ford. I would much rather see this truck go to someone who knows what it is rather than sell it to someone who just wants a cheap truck to beat up and let get all rusty. Its a 1985 Ford F-250 4x4 extended cab. Here is what the truck has: 6.9...
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    What's your oil pressure at idle with a warm engine?

    Is your engine recently rebuilt?
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    new fuel pump looks different

    Get the Facet Dura lift, its been working great for lots of people, my fuel pump still works great but the engine spun a bearing.
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    will only start with either hot or cold

    Should start with no glow plugs for more than 15 mins after shut down.
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    loud nocking noise

    Wow, maybe I am luckier than I thought. The day I thought my truck died there was air in the lines. I blead it and got it started but it sounded "like a gasser about to throw a rod" but the noise was coming from the top end. And the engine shakes like hell like its missing on one cylinder. But...
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    loud nocking noise

    Did it sound like it was in the top end of the engine or the bottom end? Mine did something similar but I have a feeling mines a lot worse off, (just trying to be optimistic)
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    Only starts on block heater

    Last year in the dead of winter before I knew better I had new Autolites last only 3 starts, there was no where to plug it in at my girlfriends place. If you look at the chart for glow plug time for the factory controller in the coldest of cold the factory controller will glow for 14 seconds...
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    Electric fuel pump

    I got a carrier pump (Facet Dura Lift), its great, cheaper than a red too. I fabbed a bracket to mount it right where the old factory water separator used to be. I guess trucks newer though and probably doesn't have the mounting holes there.
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    My Engine Just Took a Big ****: Swap Possibilities

    Well there's 2 6.9 IDI's within 5 miles from my house. One has a 4 speed, deffinately want that, the guy said the motor started and ran great but it had a lot of blow by. Don't IDI's have more blowby the most other diesels? The other has been parked for sometime and is an automatic, what all...
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    My Engine Just Took a Big ****: Swap Possibilities

    Its been parked 4 years. It has a new radiator. Still have the original owners manual in the glove box. I'll deffinately start it and run it before buying it. What years (if any) were turbos standard on the IDI. I have seen some newer vans for sale but the owners don't know much about them...
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    My Engine Just Took a Big ****: Swap Possibilities

    That was my other thought, that sucks. Any idea on how long to put a new motor in, no turbo.
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    My Engine Just Took a Big ****: Swap Possibilities

    I thought the motor would give me more of a warning than it did, went from 40 psi to almost nothing. Had a low pressure coolant leak. But nothing major, I had drove it from New Mexico to Michigan in June and it ran great. Really bums me out. Any idea what could have made it go so quick. Is it...
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    My Engine Just Took a Big ****: Swap Possibilities

    I was driving home from work yesterday and when I went to turn on my road the oil pressure light dropped to just above nothing at idle and i could here some bad engine noise, maybe a really loud valve or a rod or main bearing, sounded like the upper end but really loud. I shut it of as I coasted...
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