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Sunday morning we get up to go the Church, and old man winter dumped another 3" of snow on us during the night. OH great.
Hit the garage Door opener, and it starts peeping and complaining. Door it stuck, frozen to the concrete. Kick and bang on the door and it opens up.

Use the Snow Shovel to clean off the concrete around the car in front of the door, and a path over to the truck along side the garage.
I use one of those squeegies with the bug scrubber on a broom handle to push snow off the hood, windshield and roof. Works pretty good.
Shovel around the truck, get in to warm up the block of ice.
then crank up the snow blower to clean off the 150 - 170ft of drive way so my one wheel drive truck can get out and moving.

Its 12 miles to the Church, and none of the roads have been plowed, and the snow was packed down and icy so drove around 35 all the way.

Parked along side the church behind another car, and after svc was over, get in to move the truck, and won`t go into gear, just grinds. Put in reverse, start in gear back up, shut it off, put in first start in gear and move it and shut it off.
I noticed with the clutch pushed in, it wasn`t totally disingaging, slipping and shaking the truck.
Had some cleaning up to do inside, grab my Wife to head for home.

Push in the Clutch, and Bam, peddle hits the floor. look under the dash and the rod came out of my Heim Joint mod., Iam thinking the set screw must have loosened up. I was sure I used loc-tite on it.
We drive the 12 miles home shifting by Rpm`s. It`s all back roads so not much traffic.

I unscrew the 2 haves of the Clutch MC Rod. The damn thing broke off, when I was putting it all together, I drilled a hole in it thinking the set screw would be more secure to hold the Rod. Well there isn`t enough meat on ea side of the hole so it broke.

No problem, I have a new Clutch MC out in the shop, and cut off the ring end and use it. First clue, the jam nut is 10mm, one off truck is, 7/16". metric and SAE.

Head down to O`Reallys and then NAPA thinking they sell new rods. Nope.
"O" wants $50 and NAPA wants $65 for a new MC and who knows what threads the rods are?
So RPM gear jam my way back home.

Did a bunch of Google searching on what to do, and what other guys did etc...
Last night Iam looking at the Heim Joint with the broken piece in it, fiddle around with it and finally get it out. Then the light comes on with that "DUH" moment.
Why can`t I install the round section in and crank down on the set screw? I had it in my mind, when you cut off the ring, you needed the flat part to fit into the sorta oval hole to make it fit right.

So this morning I red Loc-titted the set screw, and cranked down on it real good. Screwed the two 1/2`s together, connected the heim joint, and adjusted the length, and tightened the jam nut.......all good now.

OH! I did use Loc-Tite when I first put it together.

Here Iam stressing over what to do, what to do?
And it was so simple.

Moral to the story...don`t drill an hole in the rod.


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The tech section seems to be reserved for information that has been mostly settled, so that you can look through it for solutions to your problems. At least that's the way I understand it, but pretty sure it's no big deal if you post there, but most people post in the threads section. Your thread about your truck's no start has already been moved to regular threads, no worries :D
 

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Power Master 9050

Was poking around on the internet on 2/24, and start looking at the prices of a Power master 9050 Starter. Bought one for the 86 and installed about 4 years ago, and think it was around $225 free shipping plus tax.

It seems like cheapest is $211 now.

I suddenly see one listed for $149.99, free shipping. Call their 800#, and it was a return, didn`t fit their application.
Got it in the mail yesterday, in all the original box/packaging, and except for a couple dirt marks, is new. Doesn`t even look like it was installed.

Total price...$160.64. sure can`t beat that. :Thumbs Up

Bought it from Speedway Motors in Lincoln, Nb.

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The road out front is gravel, and turning onto our driveway which is gravel, is supper muddy where the water run`s along the ditch area.
Just getting worse and worse. Don`t want to get stuck with my one wheel drive truck.

Drove up to Carson City and picked up 1 yard of 1 1/2" crushed rock, actually looks much larger.
They call it fractured rock, maybe a fancy term.
Guy said it is about 2500lbs. $38.74

Shovel it out, and after looking at it...well that didn`t go too far....need more.
Had to be back to Carson later for a Legion meeting, so we hustled around and got back to the rockery for a second load before they closed.
It`s about 25 miles each way.

I pumped up the Air bags to 40lbs, and rear tires to 80lbs, and would never know I had a load in the bed. The AB`s really stabilize the truck, and keep the rear from going down so much if just riding on the springs.
I didn`t install them to haul more weight, really installed them because the car Trailer with a load drop`s the back end down a lot.

Have no idea how the old girl was used before I bought her 8+ year`s ago. But 344K miles,she needed a butt lift....


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Well I was on the road again. I left at 4:00 PM Thursday and got back to town just after noon today. I took one staircase to outside of Fredricksburg, TX and then helped install the other one outside of Marble Falls, TX. The trip wasn't very exciting and that's just exactly how you want it to go! I even had two guys say that they thought I had a nice looking truck (I think it's ugly but...) I told the guy who told me that in Texas that people there tell me how much rust it has. I just tell them that you ought to see what it's like back home. There's trucks that are 20 years newer than mine with more rust on them. And I don't even live in the rust belt! The engine just kept purring right along the whole time. Simple, reliable, just how it like them. This is why I drive a Ford!
 

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Dang, here is is Sunday again, where did the week go?

Friday I hauled another load of Gravel, but this time 3/4". Last 3 loads were 1 yard of 1 1/2" fractured rock, and the truck drove w/o noticing any difference in how it handled.

This last load was 1 1/2 yards, and a big difference, drove like I was at the limit for it.

They said 1 yard was 2500lbs. forget what they said 1 1/2 was. Edit: 3750 lbs.

The right wheel track on the drive way is mushy from all this snow melt. So getting this pushed down into the mud will, eventually tighten it up.

This is the most now we have had in this part of Nevada, according to the old timers in the last 30 years or so. Now we are having the rain on top of it, and melting it.


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Well I was on the road again. I left at 4:00 PM Thursday and got back to town just after noon today. I took one staircase to outside of Fredricksburg, TX and then helped install the other one outside of Marble Falls, TX. The trip wasn't very exciting and that's just exactly how you want it to go! I even had two guys say that they thought I had a nice looking truck (I think it's ugly but...) I told the guy who told me that in Texas that people there tell me how much rust it has. I just tell them that you ought to see what it's like back home. There's trucks that are 20 years newer than mine with more rust on them. And I don't even live in the rust belt! The engine just kept purring right along the whole time. Simple, reliable, just how it like them. This is why I drive a Ford!
That exterior spiral staircase looks awesome! I've seen your pictures of you delivering them before but never thought they were for outside. I'm sure they are for both, but that's a sweet look for sure!
 

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Filled up last Wednesday, Fuel gauge went to just over half.... Definitely full by how many gallons it took. Filled up on Saturday before a trip, filled up again today... Took 6 Gallons. My gauge went from just over 1/4 to just under 1/4..... What?

Looks like when I change out the tank that leaks just a little bit from the top I get to put a new sending unit in too. Yay.

Does anyone know for sure what the values are for the sending unit on a 90? I have a spare but I'll have to test it and make sure it's good.
 

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Filled up last Wednesday, Fuel gauge went to just over half.... Definitely full by how many gallons it took. Filled up on Saturday before a trip, filled up again today... Took 6 Gallons. My gauge went from just over 1/4 to just under 1/4..... What?

Looks like when I change out the tank that leaks just a little bit from the top I get to put a new sending unit in too. Yay.

Does anyone know for sure what the values are for the sending unit on a 90? I have a spare but I'll have to test it and make sure it's good.
Bricknose sending units decrease resistance when emptying and increase when filling. Very Roughly 15-155ohm. I think some can go as low as 5ohm. If you meter it and it’s consistently moving throughout the range I’d call it good.
 

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Im not sure today's question should be what I did wit my truck, but instead what is my truck going to do to me today.

This was the greeting I got when I checked gauges before I shut her down at work this morning.
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Revelation says "it's the number of a man" not the "odometer of a truck" so you should be legit. I tell people all the time that Fords are in the bible. There's the Fords of Jabbok (Genesis 32:22)and the Fords of Jordan(Judges 3:28), no Chevys mentioned.

Edit: I even saw an old Ford one time that had the dealership sticker on it and it had been bought from "Jordans Fords".
 

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