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    Rattling calipers... shim kit available? Updated - solution found!

    Nice shim kit. Heres hoping this will fix the rattle. My 79 chevy C30 1 ton camper special rattled no matter what I did for it. Finally just lightly road the brakes when the road was ruff. Problem temporally solved...
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    IDIT flexplate

    Those flexplates appear to be turbo plates. May want to check Brian's Truck shop in Arkansas. BTS does these E4OD trans that can't be ruined behind ANY idi engine.
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    Help with E4OD shift issues and FIPL replacement

    The wide open voltage is too high. You cannot have 5.0 volts or higher because that will cause the trans to get into limp home mode. Hopefully you still have the old flp switch. Look closely at the drive end where the tab from the throttle shaft fits.See the way the tab fit into the switch.You...
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    6.9 idi voltage regulator location

    So the fix was a bad voltage regulator.Glad your up and running again.
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    Identifying cavitation with heads off? Now with PICS!

    As already posted. Welcome to the forum. Now please clean off any piston top and see if it tells you20 or 30 or 40 on the top. Then look at the block serial number located to the drivers side of the injection pump gear housing. Its right by the corner of the aluminum bracket.If it has the letter...
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    IDI pump recommendations

    As injection pumps wear out the pumping part of the pump gets too wide on the clearances.Diesel fuel is very thin. Add some heat to open up clearances and you get the heat soak hard start issues you posted about.Sometime the water trick works. Its poured over the back area of the injection pump...
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    Give me a damn Christmas starter recommendation.

    Lifetime warranty ONLY mean you pay once for it.But generally speaking.. You will get very good doing the replacements because you just will be doing them. This forum is long standing with proof to this fact. Some chain store fake auto parts stores do get good rebuilds as already posted...
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    1992 Fuel Heater O ring

    Our fuel heaters DO NOT WORK.... First off the "heater" is on top of the fuel.Every other type of heat is applied to a pot from the bottom.Heat will raise. Secondly the factory DID NOT tell us to turn on the ignition switch for 7 minutes to allow the heater to warm up the fuel. It still has...
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    Give me a damn Christmas starter recommendation.

    DB from ebay has been about the highest torque fastest turning starter for the bucks.
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    IDI pump recommendations

    Welcome to the forum. Reading the Hall of Shame will guide you AWAY from the cheap horrible rebuilders out there. Generally the ebay rebuilders are the absolute worst for quality. Then the "chain store bought" are always questionable. Oreilleys, Napa or Autozone are terrible for quality. The...
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    6.9 idi voltage regulator location

    My best idea is the voltage regulator has failed. If it can't interrupt The alternator charging circuit then the batteries are still connected directly to the alternator. That will drain the batteries over night easily. Recharge the batteries and disconnect them. See if the drain. I bet they...
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    7.3 idi to 6.9 idi

    The van oil cooler headers will not fit the trucks.The front header has only three bolts holding it to the block because of how it connects to the engine. The rear header points the oil filter in a different direction. The van drivers side exhaust manifold will not fit the trucks either but the...
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    Truck ran great for 400+ miles yesterday and now won't start

    By filling any fuel or oil filter by the OUTSIDE ring of small holes you are allowing the filter to act on whats being poured in it. Not thats none of my business.
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    Truck ran great for 400+ miles yesterday and now won't start

    No min or max miles to a fuel filter change.Many wait till they see the dash filter light come on during heavy acceleration from stop or pulling a load. Might want to change once per year. My rig gets driven less than 5000 miles per year. Filter is probably 5 years on the engine. So I probably...
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    7.3 idi to 6.9 idi

    Yes. The 7.3 glow plug system fits the 6.9. Just a note about any idi engine.Every drilled hoole is the same from 6.9 to 7.3 but...You need plenty of machine work to fit a 6.9 head on a 7.3 engine. But 7.3 heads fit the 6.9 without issues. Only the head bolt diameter is different between the 6.9...
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    She died

    This happened to my rig last year. Turns out the the temp sender behind the thermostat failed. It controls the fast idle and the cold advance. Sad part is it is the same fuse link to the glow plug solenoid. Pull the electrical plug to the sender and run it. Any engine from a wrecking yard is...
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    Connecting rod broke below the piston. Looking for ideas on cause.

    Sorry you lost an engine but no need to feel another idi is going to fail like this one did. There are thousands of these engines doing all kinds of hard work and not very often does this forum read about failures like this. You yourself posted you trashed this engine on the farm hauling logs...
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    Vacuum Warning Switch

    The pic is correct. Finding this at ANY ford stealership is impossible but.. Try most any Navistar part counter. These engines originally were in the S1600 trucks and many bus applications. Then try any pic n pull wrecking yard.
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    R&D vs Type4 cam?

    Yes. They are exactly the same. Most every part of the 6.9 is the same as the 7.3 engine. Every bolt hole is drilled the same and same threads.
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    Just balanced my rotating assembly

    Can you tell us where the weight was added and where the welding was done. Also what was the name of the shop balancing this. Thanks...
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    7.3 IDI Turbo E-Fuel Pump

    Glad to read you found and fixed the problem.This really is a fabulous site...
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    94 7.3 fuel draining back?

    True it sounds like the mechanical lift pump is faulty and.. you probably have a leak at the top of the filter head at the fuel heater area.If the top of the filter head is slightly wet I bet thats the problem.
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    Atf to clean?

    Every tank of fuel I fill up in goes some Stanadyne Proformance formula. Between 4 to 6 ozs and I DO FEEL the difference if its not every tank. I'm sensitive...
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    Did I mess anything up?

    After the ignition has been on for a few minutes the glow plugs cycle off. Thats the great parts of having the solid state system. you did not harm anything. Remember we have two huge batteries starting these extremely high compression engines. Its 21 to 1 or normally around 450 lbs cranking...
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    7.3 IDI Turbo E-Fuel Pump

    If plugging in the engine makes it start right away my feelings are your glow plugs are NOT working.Why they are not is the question. Might start looking at the main engine wire harness plug to be melted where the two yellow wire are located in the end. Those two wires are connected at both ends...

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