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    Firewall cracking

    Your best bet would be to use a reinforcement on BOTH sides of the firewall, make that area 'strong like bull', you apply pressure, and that pressure means this stuff needs to be HEAVY DUTY. ;Sweet
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    Turbo options.

    I don't look at PDF's, my computer never lets me run the damned things right. Besides, since I wasn't aware of that, and as I prefaced my statements, I think my point was made. Well, it would've been nice to know that, but my ideology was based upon the concept of 'purpose use' turbos, and the...
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    Turbo options.

    I wil preface my rely with a declaration that I have ZERO 'true' knowledge of turbo informations such as model numbers and such, but I will relate info that I obtained from a book I bought on turbo-ing engines. If you are thinking of having a turbo on your engine, you will want the turbo to...
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    OK, NEW idea, dt466

    I can't say much about the performance of the DT466 or the DT360, though I have some anecdotal info regarding the DT360. I've never really worked on either, but I drove a school bus with the DT360, and I LOVED that bus, L-O-V-E-D that bus, it would do almost everything I wanted it to, except go...
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    Breaking in a rebuilt engine.

    Some my say the machine shop is only interested in your money, but I gotta disagree with them.... it's YOUR engine, it's about whatever you're comfortable running/allowing, to me, I'm in more of the 'hi-perf diesel camp, so I'd balance them just for the piece of mind, but that would be MY...
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    9" x 7" Large Ford OBS Mirrors

    About a dozen years ago, my 84 Bronco II needed a new one on my driver's side, I found one made by 'Peterson Manufacturing' I think, it WAS NOT a good design, it was a plastic body that flexed quite a lot, and one day while driving 45 mph, the glass actually FELL OUT and shattered on the ground...
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    DIY glow plug harness

    Technically, the TYPE of wire also would effect the wire's ability to handle current. Steel wire conducts differently than copper, or even aluminum.
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    Turbo problem: burning oil

    Not to sound too much like an utter @$$, I don't think that anyone who has ever lifted the hood and worked on ANY vehicle EVER has ever really known 100% what they were doing. Just an observation made by hundreds of hours of bustin' knuckles and working on my various rides over the years.
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    CA unladen weight fee

    @ Frank Yeah, but if you do something for the 'little old lady down the road' and she pays you for it, that legally counts as 'commercial use', and if you get caught doing that without the proper registration, it's NOT worth the trouble.
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    AC compresser to on board air

    I got lucky, my 84 F350 extended 6.9 stick dually already had a heavy-duty air compressor installed when I got her, it's a 'V type' pump too.
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    CA unladen weight fee

    So,... what kind of little thing is pulling in LESS than ONE TON? I think my little Luv is over that.
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    Does a E250 windshield fit a F350?

    No real idea, but it 'seems to me' that the body is taller on the van than it is on the truck, so.... :dunno
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    dana 60 trouble finding parts

    You mean hub spacers?
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    Buying rear tires only on a dually

    Well, if it's a 'slide in', as long as the materials it's made of are light=wight like aluminum, it should be OK.
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    Buying rear tires only on a dually

    No problem, it's the duty of those with knowledge to share it with those that haven't. ;Sweet You should be fine, those tires, will have a COMBINED weight rating of 10,720 lbs, and figuring your truck weighs, what? 7,500lbs( of-which MOST is up-front), and that camper( presumably being towed)...
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    Motor Oil Spec

    I don't know SPECIFICS about what Ford SPECIFICALLY called for, but GENERALLY, diesels run in the 15W-40 weight range.
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    Did I?

    I meant matching that one replacement piston/rod/wrist pin matched with the other piston/rod/wrist pin sets in the engine's other bores. NOT matching the rod/pin/piston to and against each part in that combination of parts, just for clarity.
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    Buying rear tires only on a dually

    First, that's dependent on circumstances, under normal situations, you will have NOTHING to worry about, but on that one RARE occasion where you need to move a Huge Mack V8 diesel in the box, then no, you would need to worry. :dunno Second, you answered your own question, directly before you...
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    Buying rear tires only on a dually

    I meant the whole different sizes thing, the other is fine. Though in a 4x4, I'm not too sure running different brands is a good idea, many of the brands have variation in the size of 'sizes'. On e brand being potentially bigger than another in the exact same size. If I was mixing different...
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    Did I?

    Josie, Honestly, I think you'll be fine with what you have there, the others are questioning the skirts being scuffed-up, but in truth, that little bit wasn't that bad, it wasn't enough to really remove the factory machining grooves off the side. It looks like whatever was going wrong was caught...
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    Buying rear tires only on a dually

    If you keep taking out your clearance lights, you might be better off to invest in some 'armoured' clearance lights like: http://http://www.grote.com/product.php?product_number=46892 -OR- http://http://www.grote.com/product.php?product_number=46292 To the OP: Generally, as...
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    Stock tire size on Alcoa rims?

    Check with the tire manufacturer that made the tires you are using/want to use. Oftentimes, a fairly-wide selection of rim-widths will work with a set of tires. Though if the rims are wider, in which direction(s) are they wider, is it in the back-spacing? If it is, is the additional width...
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    Which engine is better for a medium duty truck?

    I've sen both the 3208 Cat and 8.2 DD up-close and personal-like; I used-to work at a truck salvage place, my only real concerns are the height of the engine( so no 3406 Cat, 12.7 DD or the like) and after that, will it clear the frame rails. I'm not too worried about the frame-rails bit as I'm...
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    Which engine is better for a medium duty truck?

    Truck resembles this one, but the frame is longer, and would take a nice 16 foot roll-back on it. http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3184/3103534604_5d1ff62dff_z.jpg?zz=1 It looks like there is more room than there is, the rear of the engine(last cylinder, if I remember correctly) is under...
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    Which engine is better for a medium duty truck?

    I;m not too worried about the external measurements( other than height) because these trucks generally had a nice sized area to work with under-hood. Even if I can't make a 'stock' lay-out engine work, I can do stuff like remove the turbos and move them off the engine a-la those after-market...

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