So what did you do with your truck today?

Got the Bilsteins in today but woden you know it's going to rain all week and the oak tree doesn't sheld the rain. Maybe one day I'll get my shop building up so I can work on my old stuff out of the rain and the cold. Started putting my water fuel secperator together to go on the frame, this is a two filter set up with a water senser and fuel heater in the primary filter and a primer pump on the second one.

BrianX128 said:

Yeah, it's not a bad job if you can get the steering column out but if you cant it's really hard to yank on the thing in the cab and not break stuff. I was just removing it from a parts truck so I wasn't that careful and broke the ignition box thing on the top of the steering column clean off. I did get this one out without getting the steering column off, but I also shove it the whole way over to the gear shift and cracked part of the dash shoving it over there.

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So when you said god forbid you have wires from the fuse box under the column.. you mean like this? Haha

It's from the PO

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I'm impressed that they actually used crimp connectors (and not twist-n-tape like my truck's PO, the *******). Extra points if they didn't have a proper crimp tool and used dikes

hacked89 said:

So when you said god forbid you have wires from the fuse box under the column.. you mean like this? Haha

It's from the PO

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I'm never going to complain about the alarm the PO put in my truck again

At least it looks like your wires are saggy. That actually should help lol. I put my gauges under the ash tray in my truck and so all of my wires are right where yours are in that picture. Nice and hidden until you look under there and sigh. Even worse mine are all zip tied together ..

hacked89 said:

So when you said god forbid you have wires from the fuse box under the column.. you mean like this? Haha

It's from the PO

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Holy crap that looks like clock boy's school project. Hey where you from in Phoenixville? I grew up off 23 on the way out of town towards valley Forge.

Golden Helmet said:

I'm never going to complain about the alarm the PO put in my truck again

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Ditto. I'm not gonna badmouth the dukes of hazard horn I found laying next to the brake booster with the bare wire jammed in the battery and the button switch screwed to the dash. Well not as much anyway

Small world I probably drive by your old house going to work every day. Not far from there closer to town though.

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Yes small world. Not far from there closer to town is my old stomping grounds on the reservoir by the dam and back by the brick pits on the other side Think that's all developments now but we used to dirt bike and bushwack all over back there

I finished putting in my new clutch pedal assembly in Ernest today. It's amazing what it feels like to press the clutch pedal without worn bushings and a destroyed pushrod swing arm. Going to be hard to learn to drive the truck again, between my clutch now grabbing in a totally different area along with everything feeling different having just done the SMF conversion it's going to be re-learning to ride the bike so to speak.

Also if you want a funny embarassing story, I didn't put my speedo cable back in the trans and started the truck to move it around the garage and make sure things were good and it looks like a crime scene under my truck. I'm still waiting on my LED bulbs for in the gauge cluster and new plastic bushings for my zf5 shifter but once I button those things back up this weekend and clean the poor garage floor, all of my maintenance stuff for the 7.3 will be complete and it all ended up working out great. Ah relief!

BrianX128 said:

I finished putting in my new clutch pedal assembly in Ernest today.

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Did you hear the one about two maggots fighting in dead Ernest?

Removed my tired ol' bench seat (still from 1990) and installed a pair of Subaru Impreza RS bucket seats. They still need a good scrubbing, but for $50 for the pair, and 4 hours of fiddling in the shop, I'm pretty pleased with how they turned out. This old truck looks lousy on the outside, but runs like an absolute champ, and the inside is becoming a great place to spend time! Next up: (faux) Grizzly Fur Headliner!

Took the kids for frozen yogurt. They love riding around in the "diesel" even if it's for short trips.

Drove to the sawmill for well over a ton of wood blocks. I still have the rears pumped up to 70 psi and it rides like a tank when empty, but actually feels pretty good on our lousy dirt roads when fully loaded.

Nice to have a turbo, even though it'll only make 6 psi (worn out and I think I've got a leak at the up-pipe slip joint too). No problem accelerating even with a full load.


Unfortunately it's still leaking a bit of coolant from somewhere on the left side of the engine. I can see the drips on the bellhousing and crossover pipe It may be the left front core plug (the one you can't get the tool on with the engine in the truck, naturally) - the shop who did my heads/gaskets thought it was even before I had the heads replaced, and it was there although smaller before I got it hot when the belt popped off...

Will have the shop take a careful look - if it's head gasket seepage, I'm considering retorquing the bolts. Or just adding a cupful once in a while!

Didn't do anything but I'm gonna count it anyway. Got a sweet little care package from @Thewespaul looks good but I'm going to wait for slightly warmer weather before installing it lol

cason234 said:

This old truck looks lousy on the outside, but runs like an absolute champ,

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Sounds like mine. I know that it's ugly, but it runs great and that's the most important thing to me. Besides, I can't see how it looks while I'm driving it! Now if only it would warm up enough for me to change out my stuck open thermostat so I can drive it again.