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    Cup holders

    This little digression on spills helps us to understand the importance of cupholders.
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    Arctic Ambulance

    I also took out the doghouse and started looking for the PSOM, or a wire leading from it to the power control module. According to the EVTM the PSOM is behind the instrument cluster, which I have't figured out how to access yet. I need to attach the new shift controller to the TPS, the PSOM...
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    Arctic Ambulance

    Yesterday's project was to replace the ball bearing slides on the battery drawer. That was successful, and the drawer with batteries slides in and out nicely now. Today's project has been to drop the transmission pan, replace it with an aftermarket pan with a drain plug, put a heater on that...
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    Changing a head gasket in the brown truck.

    Jesus Freak, another three grocery runs will bring me to 1,000 miles. I should set the torque wrench to the final value and click it on each of the headbolts? It must be sucking air, then. The fuel system is all cobbled together at this point, so I guess it's no surprise. It's just...
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    Changing a head gasket in the brown truck.

    I've made a couple of grocery runs with the old truck now, 200 mile round trips. It's working pretty well with the Walbro pump. I do occasionally feel a bit of surging. I wonder if the pressure from the pump occasionally surges high enough to advance the timing a bit? The pump is supposed to...
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    Swing away spare tire mount spotted

    I was up in Fairbanks yesterday, and I saw this in a parking lot. It's a home made rear bumper with a home made swing away spare tire carrier. Looks like two heim joints for the swivel. A flimsy looking latch on the other side, probably sufficient for the purpose. Doesn't obstruct the tail...
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    Another good reason to stay out of Calif.

    Yes, CO2 is increasing. It's still near the lower bound of what the geologic record suggests is normal. That's not where we want to be. With the sun and hence the earth showing signs of cooling, we do NOT want to try to reduce the available CO2.
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    Bench seat upholstery

    Oof, not cheap. Might be worth it, though. The blanket seat covers are not quite satisfactory.
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    High pressure fuel pumps

    @hacked89, that sounds a whole lot stronger than the cheapie kit Dad put on the '78.
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    High pressure fuel pumps

    I wonder if you could rig a front bumper mount, like hacked89 has. Dad had that front mount on a '78, and it worked OK. It was a piece of angle behind the bumper running between frame rails, and an L-shaped arm running from that under the bumper then up, and clamped to the bumper. At it's top it...
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    High pressure fuel pumps

    That is a nice truck! No bumper mounted anything in back for you, though.
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    High pressure fuel pumps

    Since this is devolving into "how to carry your spare," has anyone adapted one of the Bronco swing away spare carriers to our trucks? Or made a swing away mount for the rear bumper? Nero, to bring this back on topic, it sounds as if high pressure isn't the goal here. A couple weeks ago I...
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    Holley Red are garbage, what else quickly?

    Was there supposed to be a pic, or a link? Edited to add: Oh, this? Walbro Industrial E-Lift Pump Which one? I'm running an FRB-13, no regulator, in my '89.
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    Another good reason to stay out of Calif.

    If you want to grow more plants, you're going to need more CO2. We have barely enough in the atmosphere to keep plants growing. We'll all be living better when we get more atmospheric CO2.
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    My bench seat cup holder

    Golly, Mr. Wizard, do you suppose this cupholder thread is going off topic too, just like the original? By the way, I really like that setup.
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