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    Tires... Tires.... Tires....

    Below, I am talking trucks/trailers with 16-inch wheels --- just to be clear. I have made most of my living pulling big cattle trailers, horse trailers, and long flatbeds and I have NEVER seen any trailer with a wheel more than six-inches wide unless some knot-head put them on there. A seven...
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    Pre-fuel Filter Required?

    That just begs for a double-Vista-Cruiser roof. A Vista Cruiser over the driver seat and a second step up Vista Cruiser over the second door. Back in the 1980s/90s, some old rodeo rider friends of mine made a name for themselves putting Vista Cruiser roofs on 4-door Chevrolet Duallies. They...
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    Pre-fuel Filter Required?

    Swap meets often have vendors with the plastic inline filters by the barrel-full; 50-cents apiece or $5 for a dozen; we always lay in a big supply. Quite often, I find them with stepped dual-fit ends; 5/16 and 3/8 (or 1/4 and 5/16 for the small engines, lawn mowers and such). Although a...
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    Pre-fuel Filter Required?

    AN(Army-Navy - usually Aluminum) JIC(Joint International Council - almost always Steel) Both are same 37° taper; and, for all practical purposes, completely interchangeable. Curious nosy minds need to know; I spy a big TEE and hose-clamps in that big A/C line that goes along the firewall and...
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    1988 IDI Wheel -tire question

    I can't speak for the rear springs; but, BEWARE if swapping front coil springs on these trucks. My front axle snubbers were, and still are, about 1/4-inch from contact. I decided on a pair of super-heavy-duty solve-all-your-problems raise-your-truck new front coils coming directly from Ford as...
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    Pre-fuel Filter Required?

    That is a good set-up and will do the job. What I would change to make life much easier when a filter does clog and needs roadside replacement: Do whatever it takes to add JIC Male Adapters to the permanent fuel lines and to the inlet ends of the fuel selector valve. Also, install ball...
  7. M

    ANTI SEIZE on INJECTOR LINES?

    Plenty of anti-seize on anything is always a good thing. Quite often anymore (and in the past as well), judging the quality of a product by the price you pay is not good business. Many times, the only difference is the higher-priced vendor is getting more of your money and taking advantage of...
  8. M

    Turn signal / wiper wiring

    Many many many years ago, my wiper motor got to the point that I had to give it a good whack to get it to going; once they started wiping, they would keep it up until I switched them off, at which it would require another whack to get them going again. I removed the wiper motor, drilled out the...
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    1988 IDI Wheel -tire question

    Besides the fact that you can comb hell over and not find any size 16.5 tire; the beads of 16.5 tires are designed such that, as soon as they have no air pressure in them, they release their grip on the rim; and, there you set with a tire that you can't just air up and go. So-called Aluminum...
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    How Tall is Shower Head ?

    I am dealing with an unmolested rear fuel tank sending unit/draw-straw on a 1985 diesel. There is a 2-1/8" length of rubber hose and a missing showerhead filter thingie. I need to know how much length the showerhead adds to the draw-straw. I am tuning the gauge sender/float arm to display...
  11. M

    Can’t win for nothing electrical edition

    You did get the 7-wire and not the 5-wire, right ?
  12. M

    Can’t win for nothing electrical edition

    I would not waste money and time on an internal column turn-signal switch; I have actually had two to catch fire and burn off the wiring insulation. That is when I got smart and did away with that mess and installed a big old Signal Stat external turn signal switch --- I love it. These trucks...
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    Showerhead filter alternative?

    In real world conditions with a healthy engine and fuel system, there is probably fifty gallons of fuel cycling through the Return Line while one gallon is being burnt. Lets say you have just topped off a tank and then discover some reason you need that tank Empty; rather than trying to suck...
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    Showerhead filter alternative?

    Everybody goes into a big panic about an indirect injection engine sucking air into the draw line; these engines are and always have been self-bleeding, providing there is fuel to pick up. I have watched people swap fuel filters and then go through a big ordeal "bleeding" = absolutely hogwash...
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    Can’t win for nothing electrical edition

    Good advice and I agree with everything in your post. When troubleshooting such things, many times I will use a long HOT wire to connect here and there to see if things work; I also clip a long test wire to the battery Ground post and then connect it direct to the Ground connection of the...
  16. M

    Can’t win for nothing electrical edition

    I hate factory wiring for just this reason. With a factory wired truck, no trailer plugs, no fancy stereo, no extra lights, and not even a phone charger plugged in the lighter; replace a rear tail-light bulb and the horn will start blowing and won't quit. When I wire a truck, that is the...
  17. M

    Wiper are doing som silly s@&$

    That is a run-on sentence if ever I saw one; where were you when they were teaching punctuation ? I have read through this three times; and, as best I can gather, the washer pump is what is sticking and staying On, Right ?
  18. M

    Turn signal / wiper wiring

    I found THIS that may help your signal issue and also answer some of your Ground questions.
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    92 IDI fon electrical..

    What problem caused you to be investigating this ? One side of the truck works and the other isn't ? If you are checking between the "Hot when tail-lights ON" wire and either of the brake/turn wires, you are not going to get full voltage reading; I am surprised it reads anything at all ---...
  20. M

    Turn signal / wiper wiring

    So....., on my 1985, if I had an intermittent dash switch AND the intermittent module, I would have intermittent wipers, right ? Several years ago, I played around with an idea to have a momentary push-button on my custom shifter, made to look like a range splitter on a big truck, such that...
  21. M

    Turn signal / wiper wiring

    I went back and reread from the beginning. I then went to Rock Auto and brought up side-by-side pictures of a plain non-intermittent switch and a Grounded intermittent switch and there are distinctive differences. If Rock Auto has the intermittent module, I am not finding it. So, to have...
  22. M

    Turn signal / wiper wiring

    Like THIS ; it may have been for a C.B.Radio; but, it would be very unlikely as good C.B. reception/broadcast does not go along with retractable antennae. Is/was there a retractable antenna when you got the truck ?
  23. M

    Turn signal / wiper wiring

    When you find that connector back there under the bed, left side, unplugging that connector will allow the bed and all it's wiring to be removed; so, to find the Ground point for all those lights, follow the truck side of that plug. Maybe somebody here knows the color of that Ground wire and...
  24. M

    Turn signal / wiper wiring

    All these Ground at each individual bulb, wherever that bulb may be; if they Grounded anywhere else, it wouldn't be a circuit. One leg of each bulb is the Positive/Hot connection and the other leg continues the current path to Ground. And that is part of why I am beginning to think you have a...
  25. M

    Turn signal / wiper wiring

    Just a heads up to watch for it; I made a post with a photo several hours ago that is awaiting approval. As best I recall, the hazard flashers don't have a fuse, but a fusible link; they have their own two-prong flasher hidden on the back side of the fuse block. About fifty things are...

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