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  1. nelstomlinson

    So what did you do with your truck today?

    I have an '82 MB. It's mighty nice, but I now realize German engineering is a curse. Oops, '83.
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    Anyone hotshot trucking in an IDI?

    Bigamist.
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    Changing a head gasket in the brown truck.

    I do have a few TSVs in the boneyard, I'll see if I can repair this one with a body from there.
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    Changing a head gasket in the brown truck.

    I got the engine back in, and it's running. Of course it wasn't quite that simple. When I was getting everything hooked up, I noticed the fuel return back to the tank selector switch wasn't quite right. I pulled, and it came off in my hand. Turns out when I pulled the engine I pulled on that...
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    Cup holders

    If being wrong stopped any of us, we'd never go. Also, if it weren't for bad jokes, we'd have no jokes at all.
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    Zd29s vs Zd9s...for the inquiring mind...

    I was thinking ether system because I saw bottles on the shelf at NAPA recently. The alternate plugs might work out. Which ones are you using?
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    So what did you do with your truck today?

    Goat, that says it's for GM valves? Is this what we use for our old Fords, too? Or do you have a custom setup?
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    Zd29s vs Zd9s...for the inquiring mind...

    I wonder if we could use a heater in the intake like a Cummins instead of the glow plugs. Or maybe an ether system. It's starting to look like glow plugs are off the table.
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    So what did you do with your truck today?

    I usually put a pint of power service white bottle additive into each tank with each fill up. Also a pint of Walmart 2 cycle oil, each tank each time. We can only get #1 diesel here year round. In recent years we've only had a few days where it would have gelled, but better safe than sorry...
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    Electric Fuel Pump Setup - Is this no good?

    My Brown Crewcab has been set up that way since before I got it. I did have a mechanical pump failure that may have leaked into the block. Fortunately I caught it before there was any obvious damage, changed the pump and the oil and carried on. Next fuel pump failure I plan to bypass the...
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    What is this electrical thingy on top of the engine?

    In the Brown truck the water in fuel sensor wire is hanging loose. I'll try tracing it back through the loom, see if it goes there. I should have said originally, it has four terminals, so it could be a relay.
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    What is this electrical thingy on top of the engine?

    I'm putting the engine for my Brown Crewcab back together, hooking up the electrical stuff on top, and noticed a little lump on the front end of the passenger side harness. This is what it looks like: This shows it plugged back in, near the #1 injector. Does anyone recognize it?
  13. nelstomlinson

    So what did you do with your truck today?

    The only day better than the day you buy your boat is the day you sell it.
  14. nelstomlinson

    So what did you do with your truck today?

    It's been a while since I looked at the sticker - maybe it's 11,000 for just the rear end? It's a decent flatbed, probably 12 feet long? That one isn't on the road, and it hasn't moved since I started it up last year to put in the new parking area. I don't look at the rigs down in the new...
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    So what did you do with your truck today?

    The good ol' boy who gave me the brownie had it in his hippy bread truck for years. It's an underdrive, and he'd mounted it backwards for OD. He used it to split shifts apparently. The hippy bread truck was an old diesel step van that had delivered Wonderbread for years before he got it and...
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    Installed Dreg's Garage's brass return caps

    I'm still very happy with the brass caps from Dregs. I wish I could get him to make me another couple of sets!
  17. nelstomlinson

    So what did you do with your truck today?

    If I go that route, the plan would be to replace the pillow block in the middle of the two part drive shaft with the brownie, one shaft running transmission to brownie, the other running brownie to differential. I'd just need to build a cross member to hold it, then have Young's Gear build me...
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    Power steering pissedness

    Holy cow! Ain't that the truth! Dad's '78 f150 was a bear to steer when the power steering went out. The old '59 IH 5 ton dump truck was easy to steer, if you had time for 20 turns lock to lock.
  19. nelstomlinson

    So what did you do with your truck today?

    If I ever put my Superduty on the road, I'll want an overdrive. I do have an old brownie I could stick under there.
  20. nelstomlinson

    So what did you do with your truck today?

    I keep a trickle charger on the battery, and a 150W heater on the pan. I use 5W-40 oil. #1 diesel, with anti-gel, usually Power Service white bottle.
  21. nelstomlinson

    So what did you do with your truck today?

    Our old diesels will start and run just fine in those temps if you plug'em in for a couple of hours before.
  22. nelstomlinson

    6.0 intake box

    What is that smaller line coming out the front of the filter?
  23. nelstomlinson

    Fuel system

    I did not know. I have some of the Gates 4loc, intend to use it for the return lines. How is it to be used?
  24. nelstomlinson

    Thread locker orange vs blue for fan clutch

    My fan nut wrench is getting mushroomed from y'all's locktite habit.
  25. nelstomlinson

    Thread locker orange vs blue for fan clutch

    I use blue or purple loctite, almost never red. I'd be more likely to use anti seize here.

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