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  1. BrianX128

    Weird steering

    Found it now lol.. So I've changed one of these before on my F150, I remember taking the hub off, a C clip that held some internals, a spanner nut I took off with a 4 prong sprocket, remove rotor / caliper, take off 5 bolts that hold a retaining piece in but this was on the drivers side not...
  2. BrianX128

    Weird steering

    Whole front end jacked up or one side at a time?
  3. BrianX128

    Weird steering

    So this is from 2 years ago, same truck... Did it once back then, hasn't done it since until the other day. Does kinda do what you are saying in the video, any way to determine which of the u joints it is easily? None of them have any slop.
  4. BrianX128

    Weird steering

    I didn't check the steering shaft into the gearbox because it didn't feel like there was any play there but I'll look at it again from under the hood. It does seem like what tradergem is saying is what is happening to me, I did go down and spin the axle shafts by hand and didn't notice anything...
  5. BrianX128

    Weird steering

    Randomly my 85 350 has started super odd steering. It's a ttb 50 and it drives as if both front tires are like this \_/ .. as in it started pulling to the right some but not gradual like alignment worn just randomly out of nowhere. If you let go of the wheel it doesn't get progressive worse and...
  6. BrianX128

    Recommendations for AC coolant.

    Cheap cans are fine as long as there is no stop leak like others mentioned, however every old system on these year trucks that I've worked on have all had the orifice tube either clogged or the screen blown totally out. If you want to fix it "closer" to right without spending money on various...
  7. BrianX128

    How hot is too hot?

    This part just stands out to me having read through a good bit of the build thread and reading this thread. I can sit at 1000 egt+ with my ac on going up hills on 90* days and the most I can get to is 210/215. I would melt pistons with egt's before I'd ever hit higher water temps. I wonder how...
  8. BrianX128

    Driving a T19 - Is it Bad to Start in 2nd?

    I have a T18 in my straight 6 F150, first gear is nice for around the yard type things, but it's absolutely useless on the road even on hills. If you start out on a steep hill in first, if there is any "tension" on the gear as you are still accelerating or if you miss the "no load" point to...
  9. BrianX128

    Shaking at Idle

    If the motor mounts are good, it could be pop pressure on 1 injector. When I replaced the injectors on my 6.9 one injector ended up leaking on the thread body. I sent it back to mel to get a replacement and put an injector from advanced auto in to drive the truck. It ran worse with that injector...
  10. BrianX128

    How do y’all like to shift your ZF5’s?

    Still have your dual mass flywheel? All the oddities you mention short of some work syncros sound like dual mass flywheel about to be dual masses. Causes just... weird feelings when driving. Mainly that "back and forth" feeling at times.
  11. BrianX128

    Rear Brake Randomly Dragging

    Honestly everywhere I normally park at work / at home is flat, I always throw the truck in low range when I park on hills to help out but toss the e-brake on just because when I'm doing gravel or mulch around my yard on hills, I don't do that very often but I've done it before with no issues. I...
  12. BrianX128

    Rear Brake Randomly Dragging

    So oddly enough it was fine on my drive home. I think that side of the cable must be binding but I can't figure out where. Any special spot to blast with pb blaster? I don't see any stand out rusty spots on it.
  13. BrianX128

    Rear Brake Randomly Dragging

    I honestly never use the ebrake either so it seems very coincidental for it to happen right after it was used on a steep hill. I'm gonna drive half way home and pull over and see what it's like, I only need to get 18 miles. I don't want to ruin something for an easy fix but I absolutely don't...
  14. BrianX128

    Rear Brake Randomly Dragging

    Weird. I just drove it around the parking lot, I could feel a small drag so I pushed the ebrake the whole way down and popped it back up a good 5 or 6 times and coasted down the hill and reversed back up it, I could feel the tension slowly leaving as I did this. Fluid is full, nothing leaking by...
  15. BrianX128

    Rear Brake Randomly Dragging

    My 85 F350 on the way to work today right towards the end of my commute I smelled hot brakes. Got to work in the pouring rain and my rear drivers side brake must have been dragging, rim was hot but not melt your fingers hot and it was steaming from the rain. I didn't have my e-brake on overnight...
  16. BrianX128

    Cruise Control Question

    The cruise on my 90 crew cab works but has a weird problem, maybe two. For one thing, the "off" button does nothing no matter how hard you press the button. I'm not sure if the wire isn't hooked up on the button end or on where its going to and I'm not sure where that is even so any help there...
  17. BrianX128

    Slave Lake Still Lives

    Also his buddy just put a 6v92 supercharger on his idi and made 8 pounds of boost across the power band and it spools some boost free revving.. He also at one point put a giant sprocket on the water pump and spun the first supercharger by a bike chain..
  18. BrianX128

    Slave Lake Still Lives

    I missed this after christmas, but slave lake is still alive. I couldn't breathe from laughter when he put the belt on while the truck was running.
  19. BrianX128

    6.9 IDI Burning Oil Excessively

    My 7.3 has 140k on it now, when I got it at 100k it was burning a quart of delo every 1000 miles. That's what the previous owner was using. I switched to rotella just for fun and it only burns a quart ever 2000 maybe slightly less 1800 we'll say but for sure better. Doesn't make sense. My 6.9...
  20. BrianX128

    Electrical Gremlin

    I made all of the wires longer for the smaller lugs, the bigger ones you can remove pretty easy. If it ever goes bad again I can at least pull it to the side to mess with it.
  21. BrianX128

    Electrical Gremlin

    That was essentially what I was trying to verify anyways. Turns out my relay was cracked in half and super "crunchy". I ordered a new relay from napa that I found referenced here over the last few years as the motorcraft relay on amazon has awful reviews and doesn't appear to be motorcraft...
  22. BrianX128

    Electrical Gremlin

    So on my 7.3 I did the manual glow plug mod a few years ago, really just needed new glow plugs but I left it because it was all wired nice in my dash. Recently sometimes I'll press the button and the wait to start indicator will come on from the relay, but I have a second led wired to the output...
  23. BrianX128

    Stiff Clutch - Now No Clutch?

    Add 1 more quart of atf to the trans through the shifter hole so it doesn't spill out the side. Be careful it's a permanent stain. I added two to mine but that's not recommended. If your idle is still 600/650 make it 750/800. This all helps a lot short of sub 1000 rpm idling around in first or...
  24. BrianX128

    Stick to the damn topic when posting

    Too long, didn't read.
  25. BrianX128

    Safe running rpm

    I always thought my 6.9 was de-fueling at about 2700 rpms, the other day hauling wood I thought the poor old guy had really lost some HP trying to go up a big hill near my house. I got home and just for kicks had the wife hold the throttle down to the floor with the truck off while I stood...

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