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    lug checkers?

    I learn something everyday. Being born in the tire business and around it my entire life, changing and repairing tires on all sizes of trucks and trailers from all points of the compass, I have never yet encountered a set of those actually in use on a truck or trailer. Honestly, I clicked...
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    Fuel Gelling Q

    Instead of putting the 911 in the tank, put it in the tool-box; in fact, if you really need the stuff, it requires TWO bottles = one to pour in the gelled filter and the other to pour in the tank --- AFTER you have already gelled up. Power-Service Diesel 911 is not intended to be used as an...
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    Windshield wipers?

    I bet she can spell better, too. :)
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    Redneck engineering.....

    In Kentucky, there are more engines pulled under tree-limbs than any other way. A good stout just-right tree-limb is often the selling point of a piece of property. It is no rare sight for a loop of chain to be imbedded within several years growth.
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    Windshield wipers?

    I am not sure just what style of blade attachment you have. If you still have the original coiled-spring over the pin attachment, then they are the BEST and super-easy to remove/install once you learn the simple trick. If your's is that style, simply push downward on the exposed bit of the...
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    Need to start truck, item broken in tumbler

    That may just work. If you do try it, be certain to shield EVERYTHING from weld spatter, especially all glass and plastic. I know a guy who welded a shifter in his cab many years ago; his windshield and instrument-panel still bear the scars.
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    Need to start truck, item broken in tumbler

    I can only speak for a 1985 column/switch. The switch/tumbler MUST have the correct key in it and turned to RUN, then a slender probe pokes in a hole to release the tumbler, which will then slide right out. Were I in your situation, I would pull the steering-wheel and permanently dis-able...
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    Tanks draining each other?

    That is my diagnosis. I don't see it being mechanically possible for the valve to fail in such a way as to act as described. It either switches BOTH the DRAW and RETURN as it should, or stays stuck with both DRAW and RETURN on one tank, or goes dead and defaults to center position = no...
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    Where to find those behind the seat organizers?

    I got the ones in all of our trucks at J.C.Whitney. I found a really neat rigid plastic behind-the-seat shelf/organizer at a swap-meet. I put this behind the seat of the son's W-250 and then zip-tied the vinyl pocketed organizer to the seat-back; this set-up gives the best of both worlds.
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    Inquiry about fuel additives

    I will add this : At the initial forced use of ULSD, on all of the Dodge/Cummins sites that I frequented, there was an onslaught of pumps, that had previously never given trouble, begin leaking profusely from various seals. It was like an epidemic. I will repeat my previous statement; I...
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    Newbie introduction - Bought '83 F250 and broke down on the way home

    Others more knowledgable will know for certain, but I figure that particular seal is external and easily replaced; but then, how would I know, all of my engines have Bosch pumps. That being said, what type of fuel lift-pump is on this truck, stock mechanical or aftermarket electric ...
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    Inquiry about fuel additives

    Thanks for all the information, chris142.
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    Inquiry about fuel additives

    That is a fact that I was not aware of. What rating should be used in chain-saws, instead of the TC-W3 ?? Thanks.
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    Help truck dead in water

    If buying one of those wimpy diaphragm electric pumps, then there is a difference between gasoline or diesel; the diesel will eat the diaphragm of the gasoline pump. A genuine steel rotary vane pump couldn't care less whether it is pumping gasoline or diesel. Some like the Holley "RED" and...
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    Help truck dead in water

    A couple of fuel-pressure gauges will save a lot of guess-work and frustrations when having such troubles. One gauge plumbed each side of the main fuel-filter will tell the whole story. So far as the lobe wearing off the cam, the way I see it, the entire cam-shaft is heat-treated/hardened...
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    Inquiry about fuel additives

    I have not yet looked at the scientific data mentioned above. I have, however, studied the results of an independent analysis paid for by a bunch of guys on one of the Dodge/Cummins forum sites. One thing I will point out about the results that study lists concerning Walmart 2-cycle oil...
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    Dear Napa,

    South Central Kentucky One good thing about this area is that everyone is so used to scrimping by on barely anything that we can't really tell the difference between good times and bad. We have been in a perpetual depression for over 100 years.
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    Dear Napa,

    Tell that to the people who run things around here. Around here, you have to be quite capable to expect the $10. :(
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    Air intrusion between tank and water sep??? Help!!!

    For years I have used those clear plastic filters ahead of both the mechanical lift-pump and the auxilliary electric-pump. Some times I will see a filter plumb full of air; the next time I look, maybe there will be hardly any air at all. This has never affected the starting or running of...
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    Dear Napa,

    I am always in wonderment when people talk about $10/hour as being a low paying job. In the area I live in, in all surrounding counties, the absolute best one can ever expect to make is $10/hour, unless one is a schoolteacher, in which case you will make about three times that figure, which...
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    Rock Auto discount code

    I was just making an order and remembered your post about the discount code. I plugged in the numbers and the 5% savings almost paid for the shipping costs. Thank you. :)
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    Lets talk steering.

    I will put it this way: I bought the DELUXE Borgeson and put it on my personal truck several years ago. So far as doing it's job, I have no complaints. However, even with the so-called shock-absorbing portion of the deluxe Borgeson, I still feel every little gravel in the road through...
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    inaccurate fuel gauge

    http://www.ford-trucks.com/user_gallery/displayalbum.php?&userid=170072&albumid=16937 Thanks to Mr dgr's diligent searching, ^^^ that is the illusive fellro86 article. As for the J.C.Whitney sending-unit, it would appear that they value them at about $30-bucks more than the $16 that I...
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    Lets talk steering.

    The RedHead gear-box is a big step in the right direction. Next big improvement will be a Flaming River steering-shaft. I see by your signature that the truck is 2WD; I got a huge improvement in steering control when I installed a Rough Country (I think ??) DUAL steering-stabilizer = two...
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    inaccurate fuel gauge

    I did have links to all of this saved in my "favorites"; alas, all that somehow got lost. A member here and also on Ford Truck Enthusiasts site, FELLRO86, did a very instructive pictorial write-up (on Ford Truck Enthusiasts whatever site) that shows every detail of retrofitting a generic...

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