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  1. lotzagoodstuff

    Got rocks?

    I really like the Benz powered rig. V8 gasser Mercedes engines really sound good and make great power.
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    1993 6.9 IDI Compound Turbo ZF5 Manual Bricknose Bronco Build

    Looks like I was incorrect, you cannot put the larger 7.3 studs in a 6.9, see link below: https://www.oilburners.net/threads/6-9-head-stud-upgrade-possibility.73834/
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    1993 6.9 IDI Compound Turbo ZF5 Manual Bricknose Bronco Build

    I believe R&D put the larger studs in a 6.9, it's definitely an involved process requiring machining not just drilling and tapping. Perhaps somebody else with the history will chime in.
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    1993 6.9 IDI Compound Turbo ZF5 Manual Bricknose Bronco Build

    This is solid advice. If you are really planning on compound turbos and high boost, and you are going to go through your 6.9, you should have the machine work done to the block to accept the larger studs that the 7.3 came with.
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    So what did you do with your truck today?

    But the 5 gallon bucket has the added advantage of "strengthening your core", especially if you get it "tipsy" reaching out far. You know, a yoga instructor or personal trainer will charge you money for that kinda workout.......
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    Squeak from front wheel - not spinning freely

    +1 on what chillman recommended: go get new caliper pins, they are available and cheap. The squeaking you are hearing and the excess rub on your rotors is most likely due to the caliper pins allowing your calipers to move around too much. The rubber that inside of them gets dry rotted and if...
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    Stumbled onto this video and its for sale

    That truck in the video is in beautiful shape, but 40K for a normally aspirated crew cab dually? If there’s any hill in sight, that truck will struggle to pull anything but a landscaping trailer. By the time you upgrade the fuel system to pull anything you’ll have $45K into it. NFW......
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    Unique Modifications

    Not to hijack this thread, but where are the best OBS lenses to be found these days? I don’t care about what technology bulbs, but my lenses are pretty cloudy.
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    Unique Modifications

    I really like a front mounted hitch, but I don't like to lose ground clearance if I can help it. I built this front hitch on my old F250 and hid it behind a flip up license plate bracket. It was also kind of handy if you wanted to put a hitch mounted platform on it to stand on to work in the...
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    Factory OBS Steel Dually Wheel Identification

    After a little more digging, I found a couple more part numbers, edited the original post to make it easier for those who might be looking, but here's where it came from: I was told that the Accuride 28511 is obsolete and is superseded by 29577, and the Accuride 28512 is obsolete and superseded...
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    Water methanol injection

    Very nice set up to support higher boost levels safely. The high boost Grand National crowd refers to water methanol injection as "free octane": maybe you should call your set up "free cetane" :cool: Just wondering: who bent your intercooler piping and what diameter is it? They look very...
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    Stiff Clutch - Now No Clutch?

    Good morning. I had the center section of a single mass flywheel clutch "break away" from the section around it that had the friction material on it. I can't really explain how this happened, but it did make some noise and act funny about a block away from where it finally broke away...
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    Factory OBS Steel Dually Wheel Identification

    I’m hoping the accuride part numbers help others identify what they have. With less than 1/2” of offset between the two, they are not really easily identified. I was initially under the impression that the deeper offsets were only offered in the round hole steel wheels, but the two I have are...
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    Factory OBS Steel Dually Wheel Identification

    Doing a search on this will yield contradictory results on rub between rear tires as well as the rub on the front sway bar. After buying some wheels and doing a little measurement, I believe I can shed a little light on this subject. So it appears that there are two different dually wheels for...
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    What batteries do you have in your idi?

    In an OBS, Group 65s. I bought blems from Interstate. In a bricknose, if you can make the room to run Group 31s, I would do it, and I believe there should be some history on bricknose installation requirements if you do a search. Group 31s are always available (think of all the heavy trucks...
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    7.3 idi turbo hard to start

    You have identified one of your problems. Fix your glow plugs, it's not that hard. Good job letting your starter rest/cool between initial starting attempts, but you should really think about a new starter as well. IDI's need enough speed to start. Remember, it's compression to ignition, and...
  17. lotzagoodstuff

    Stalling

    Just wondering: what's your idle speed according to your tachometer? Might be something really silly like the throttle stop screw backed off just a bit. It's common to turn up the idle on manual trucks with single mass flywheel conversions to quiet down to gear rollover noise. If it were me...
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    TAKING BETS! 75k mile 5.4 3v SEIZED

    I love to gamble: something in the valvetrain broke, valves are crashed into the piston BTDC. It doesn't explain why it won't go backwards, but that's my wager. The modular engines seem to have lots of valvetrain/phazer issues. Kind of a tough deal to do any in frame analysis, most folks...
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    Good 3 way ball valve

    Get a brass ball valve. Stainless steel is really tough to get to seal with NPT threads, if you don't use the right lubricant/sealer you will almost always smear the threads and get a leak.
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    I'm back in the IDI game!

    So I'm a three strikes rule kind of guy. Counting me, you now have three people suggesting you privately ask this person to make this right, or publicly flush out this potential Hall of Shame candidate. It's pretty simple: whether I knew it or not, if I sold you something as forked up as that...
  21. lotzagoodstuff

    Doug Nash Ford C-6 Dual Range Underdrive

    FYI Doug Nash Ford C-6 Dual Range Underdrive unit: https://seattle.craigslist.org/tac/pts/d/tacoma-doug-nash-ford-6-dual-range/7198407970.html
  22. lotzagoodstuff

    ATF in fuel filter

    In my opinion, the added viscosity and lubricity are what makes this trick work. The injectors are hydraulically "fired" and they should go off a little higher with ATF versus ULSD as the slightly higher viscosity helps at the pump and the injectors. Your injector pump loves a dose of ATF as...
  23. lotzagoodstuff

    4bt intercooler build

    Nice project/installation. Just wondering: how'd you size the intercooler?
  24. lotzagoodstuff

    1991 F350 4X4 IDI Ambulance - $3,500 Atlanta Area

    The fact that that's a F350 ambulance and not a van chassis is pretty significant IMNSHO. If that was closer and an OBS instead of bricknose, that might have to be my "poor man's Quigley Sportsmobile". Somebody on here should snap that up as it's too cool to go anyplace else.
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    Anybody put 17" dually wheels on an OBS?

    Thanks for the creative thought of machining the hub to match the wheels. I can honestly say I never thought of that. It reminds me of the first time I saw somebody turn a diameter down pm a vertical milling machine with the part in the drill chuck and a cutting tool in the Kurt vise. All...

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