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  1. BrianX128

    Glow Plug Controller Melting

    Isn't the relay itself [the body of it] grounded through the controller? Just wondering if I need to mount it on the firewall if I'd eliminate the controller entirely.
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    Glow Plug Controller Melting

  3. BrianX128

    Glow Plug Controller Melting

    Yeah, definitely these wires into the back of the controller that are melting. I wonder if I just cut them all if it would still work. I know I have mine wired where the push button is acting as a ground signal to something on the relay or controller from an article I had found on here. That...
  4. BrianX128

    Glow Plug Controller Melting

    So I've had manual glow plugs since I bought this truck. None of them worked, relay was bad, 4 of them were stuck, all the fun. I replaced all the plugs with motorcraft ones, new controller and relay, new battery + cable to relay with a mega fuse, etc. Kept wait to start light and even added a...
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    Verify my AC Pressure

    I guess that's fine then. 93 when I got home x2.5 is 232.5 and my pressure looks like it was 225. I'll just leave it be. I think it's doing good, I just checked vent temps on a short drive and they were 45* which is a lot lower than I thought it would be for how hot it is out. Only so much you...
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    Verify my AC Pressure

    Haven't touched ac in most of my trucks in years. Done some interesting things in the past like stealing a working ac from a 300 straight 6 to put it in my non ac truck, etc. I know the basics and have a good vacuum pump but I'm not up on this stuff. So my 90 7.3 was all original stuff. I...
  7. BrianX128

    83 6.9 Valvetrain Noise?

    Not hearing it loudly until oil pressure [from running a few seconds, nothing to do with oil pressure itself] leads me to believe it's an injector not popping at the right pressure. That cylinder probably doesn't fire for a few seconds. When it starts firing every time the combustion is slightly...
  8. BrianX128

    Found A New Crew Cab

    It was beer. I'll probably regret it in the am about as much as buying another old truck lol.. all jokes aside it's really good beer. I haven't been around here much lately, but can't lie it's mostly in part to my old rigs just rolling along. Changed the oil in my idi that has the bypass...
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    Forward facing car seat

    I just did this to get it tight so I could shove my arm inside the hole in the seat and tighten the belt without sitting on the seat myself. That might have done the trick. My belt latch lock things the belt clips into pull up so high it meets right at the hole in the seat which makes it hard to...
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    Forward facing car seat

    I've never been as irritated in all my workings on these trucks as I am today trying to install a forward facing car seat in my 1990 crew cab. Our infant seat had a belt clamp so we put the seat in the middle in the back, yanked the lap belt and clamped it with the belt lock and life was good...
  11. BrianX128

    Block Serial ID

    It's never gonna be for sure now unless he blows this one up but the oil port by the filter housing is 1/4 and has a goofy reducer to 1/8th for a plug. Guessing they didn't have a 1/4 plug that day. Was also setup to have a turbo drain. These are stout enough for a factory turbo either way and...
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    Block Serial ID

    I didn't look at the oil sending unit but by the oil filter it's 1/4 not 1/8 which I thought meant turbo but that serial on the block has me so confused. Doesn't look like any I've found on searches online. My 7.3 non turbo is different and so was my 6.9, they look like yours.
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    Block Serial ID

    A buddy is looking at a replacement engine on fb near us, his truck is a turbo but that engine is cooked. Newer rebuilt turbo. We found a guy with this block but it doesn't have a turbo. Claims the turbo was bad so he got the engine and just tossed it in a n/a truck. I was looking at serial...
  14. BrianX128

    Overdrive

    Only E4OD I have is on a gasser, but mine always shifts into OD immediately if the RPM's are high enough. It actually feels like a grenade button if you are going up a hill at 55, with the OD off, and press the button again to allow it to use OD it will shove itself into OD, realize that was a...
  15. BrianX128

    Squealing rear drums

    First time I had it apart yes, second time I didn't bother. It is always a little dusty when I take it apart, maybe the friction material is wearing too quickly. I'm just trying to avoid getting new drums. I don't want to get new shoes and internal parts if the noise is coming from the drum...
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    Squealing rear drums

    Anyone ever had their rear drums squeak when braking no matter what you try? E brake isn't on, drums don't look glazed or burnt, no deep scratches or anything. Shoes have plenty of life left. Brake cleaned everything, adjusted them for a little drag and drove the truck. Fine for a few hundred...
  17. BrianX128

    School me on 2wd Front Brakes

    I didn't, the weird threads were on the studs that were in my old rotors, I may have worded that poorly. I only pounded one old stud out to take the place of the one new one I ruined. I bought 16 new 9/16-18 lug nuts, their 7/8 head not 1-1/16 but same diameter at the concave part holding the...
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    School me on 2wd Front Brakes

    They didn't match, I'm not sure what thread were in my old rotors for sure, I think M14 would be closest metric. I went to the parts store and brought a new stud and a 9/16-18 threaded right on perfectly, I just got 16 of those pounded out the stud I ruined and put one old stud and one old lug...
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    School me on 2wd Front Brakes

    Tonight might finally be the night I have an absolute mental collapse, and it's been a long time coming. Brake job went great, bearings were easy, actually enjoyed working on something again for a bit. Now the lug nuts on my truck aren't the same thread as the rotor / hub I got on rock auto. I...
  20. BrianX128

    School me on 2wd Front Brakes

    I've somehow never had to do front brakes / rotors / bearings on a 2wd F-series anything, just wasn't sure if there was anything crazy I'm going to run into here. I found some youtube videos of people going through this, but never on on an 87-91, and never on a single rear wheel vehicle. I've...
  21. BrianX128

    Tightening up Steering

    So I broke the locking nut free, my center stud has a flat head screwdriver slot, I held it all at 12 o'clock and tightened it to 4 ish and everything feels tighter now. I locked it down there and turned the wheel with the truck running just sitting in the garage, I don't feel any binding and if...
  22. BrianX128

    Tightening up Steering

    Anyone ever break the big nut loose on the steering box and turn the threaded part in a half a turn and lock it back down? My 90 f350 [2wd] is going to need new tires and I figured I'd get it aligned as the outer edge or the passenger tire is wearing more than the rest up front. I then noticed I...
  23. BrianX128

    Bucking on Deceleration

    Rear pinion engagement maybe? Something with driveshaft and carrier bearing that doesn't like if the back of the truck lifts up some on deceleration vs being pushed down on acceleration? I'm just guessing here, that's odd for sure.
  24. BrianX128

    Power window fiasco

    So this makes no sense but I've given up on finding the root of the problem for now. In my 92, the window doesn't go up from the passenger side only the drivers side. I tried a new switch but that did nothing, and verified the switch worked. It's almost like the window can only ground the signal...
  25. BrianX128

    Floor mats

    I think I'm gonna give those a try, someone had a review with photos and they look like they fit better than anything else I've found.

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