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    Turn signal / wiper wiring

    This is on the cab wall behind the passenger seat. There are four of these in the left side doghouse under the sleeper; besides sleeper accessories being fused there, each string of truck markers get fused there such that, should something happen to one group of markers, only that group is...
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    Turn signal / wiper wiring

    On my truck, it has been under there since almost the day the truck became mine in about 1986 or 87 and I can't recall just what it was called. The actual little gizmo that does the deed is a tiny little thing that is mounted through an angle bracket via an insulator; one wire goes on the top...
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    Turn signal / wiper wiring

    Turn signals should have nothing whatsoever to do with the brake controller. The brake controller should have four wires = Always HOT - Always Ground - OUT to the trailer brakes - IN from the electronic gizmo you supply at the Cold Side of the Brake Light switch ----- without that little...
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    Turn signal / wiper wiring

    It is nigh impossible to diagnose such wiring problems "over the phone" so to speak. As for "Grounds", most of the stuff under the dash does not have a Ground wire unless the previous owner was like me and added them (I don't trust "chassis Grounds") I am a self-proclaimed expert when it comes...
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    Showerhead filter alternative?

    Thanks for all the links and information on replacement gauge senders. Years and years ago, on one of these diesel Ford sites, there was an excellent write-up on how to replace both sending units with generic J.C.Whitney units that just happened to be the correct ohm-whatever to work with our...
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    Different Oil Filter (read)

    I sure miss filterbarndotcom. Let alone being able to buy $30 filters for $3 apiece and free shipping when over $100/order, filterbarn had the absolute best easiest all-in-one-place filter cross reference I ever saw anywhere. Type in a filter number and thouwzands of brands and part-numbers...
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    Axle Flange Gaskets - Do You Use ?

    I thought the hard plastic Fel-Pro 55328 that I have were plastic, not thin steel; maybe they are steel and just look and act like plastic. I wish I had known about this when I had that one off last night; I would have given it the magnet test.
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    Intermittent crank + start switch Again? + push button

    I forgot to add = you most likely have an electronic plunger thingie that shuts off the fuel when you turn off the key. Once you get your kill cable performing to expectations, find this electronic fuel shut-off and take the guts out of it; most likely a rubber-tipped plunger that magnetically...
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    Intermittent crank + start switch Again? + push button

    In my case, I just routed a cable from the dash to the manual kill lever on the Bosch injector-pump. In your case, with probably a Stanadyne pump, you will have to create this lever. As best I remember from 18-years ago, the IDI pump has a "hard" inlet line. There are two ways you can...
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    Axle Flange Gaskets - Do You Use ?

    Full Floating Axle Flange Gaskets For Dana 70 (and possibly several others as the axle flange can't be any larger than the center of a 8-on-6-1/2 wheel regardless of how big the rest of it may be): Fel-Pro 55328 --- Victor Reinz 326212 QUESTION = Do you use a flange gasket or do you...
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    1986 A/C-Heater air flow, not right

    Those doors are notorious to break and then flop around; and, once broken, you have little if any defrost air movement. For the current time being, I have my broken door completely removed. When I know summer is here to stay, I have a piece of "eve flashing" (super-thin Aluminum that builders...
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    Intermittent crank + start switch Again? + push button

    Someone(s) mentioned Push-Button Start and also that pot-metal actuating rod inside the column that can break and leave you helpless. Several years ago, I flew in on my truck and didn't quit until I had eliminated that whole key-switch/ignition mess and replaced it all Big Truck Style. I even...
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    DANA 70 Axle Vent Thread Size ??

    .... Dana 70 Axle vent thread pattern is 7/16 x 20 = Confirmed ! --- Thank You Subway 18-years is pretty good for me; and, after the fight I had today, I can see why I kept procrastinating. Here is Amazon's offering; Mopar; but I can confirm it fits a Ford just as well. Amazon also has the...
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    7.3idi Fuel Check Valve Recommendations

    I have always got my check-valves from McMaster-CARR and haven't had a failure yet.
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    Return line question

    Others may know better; but, air intrusion in return lines should not affect the running of the engine. Return lines are fuel on it's way back to the tank and can be nearly all air; they should have nothing to do with the engine nor the fuel filter or water separator. The Draw line is the...
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    A/C Evaporator Box Access Port

    A G.I.Joe-sized manhole in your Evaporator Box. Useful for spraying Evening in Paris into the air-stream. Can also be used for Freon Sniffer probes and remote camera access to look for flourescent dye. Drill a hole in an extra plastic cap and poke the needle of a dairy inspection thermometer...
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    Batteries

    The bigger the wire/cable, the less I like solder. Besides the chance that the soldered connection might get hot enough to melt the solder, my main dislike is how the solder is "stiff" and inflexible. Solder will run back inside the sheathing on the individual strands, farther along some than...
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    Batteries

    Factory-original in my 1985 was two Group 27F. I now run three Group 31s; two are only ever for starting and the third is for everything else. Besides the Group 31s ("s" meaning threaded stud terminals), the best thing I did for my batteries was to quit using lead-post clamp-on terminals and...
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    Grab Handles

    If you ever capsize, you're liable to run your noggin through that loop and then it twist tight as the truck rolls on over; you might should hang one of those seat-belt cutters handy.
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    F700 Hood Latch Handle ?

    The last several years, I have spent a lot of time in the cab of an F700. Just recently, it dawned on me that it may very well be possible to employ that big long hood latch handle of the F700 on my F350. The hoods look the same and the latch mechanism looks pretty much the same, save for that...
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    Advice: Tire valve extensions /TPMS/ Pressure EqualizersDRW

    A local farmer was loading rolled hay with the front-end loader on a 990 David Brown when one of the hydraulic hoses near his arm started spraying fluid. He only had a couple rolls to go to get loaded; so, he clamped his hand over the leaking line and continued to finish loading the hay. Later...
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    Front tank sending unit.

    As for the sending units, years and years ago, my front tank (steel) sending unit hadn't worked since like almost brand-new and I found a write-up on some site or other, maybe this one, where some guy discovered that the generic J.C.Whitney gauge sending units had the same electronics as that of...
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    Front tank sending unit.

    That looks like it has the twist-lock type sending unit lid. My 1985 Cab-Chassis came with steel front tank and plastic rear tank. It has the big plastic Mason-Jar type lid that cannot be found anywhere. For the last thirty years, the ring on mine has been broken and is held together by a big...
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    Got to do a rear brake job.... any advice?

    As for the hold-down spring tool, I use one very similar to THIS; except, mine is hexagonal, much better made (and probably much easier to hold than a round one), and has a hole through the other end that the end of the spring fits in; and, mine is stamped Made in USA and cost about 1/5th of...
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    Advice: Tire valve extensions /TPMS/ Pressure EqualizersDRW

    This is a good place to tell my rubber valve stem story which is a good example as to why metal stems are much to be preferred over any sort of rubber. My life-long good friend who I grew up with has this CJ-5 Jeep with 15-38.5-15 Gateway Gumbo Mudders on 12-inch wide white-spoke "wagon"...

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