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  1. ISPKI

    So what did you do with your truck today?

    Finished the final layers of rubberized undercoatings on "Earl Simpson Sr." Got it lined up with the flatbed, just need to figure out how to pivot it down and get it in position safely. Once its on where I want it, I will be extending the rear of the frame by about 2 feet and then extending the...
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    E4OD woes.. (torque converter shudder?, and then some.. )

    If the injector was stuck, wouldnt the pressure just push it's way down the return lines and out to the fuel tank? There shouldnt be a way for pressure to build up like that at the cap to the levels needed to block a hole thru the injector return cap...right? At least injector caps are easy...
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    94 F-Superduty Tail lights

    I suppose, what I could do with the wiring harness identification is turn the truck on and start flipping switches and just test the wires one by one with a multimeter to confirm their function. I made a new common ground point bolted to the rear most cross member which I then coated in...
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    94 F-Superduty Tail lights

    Looking good there Chillman. Did you form those panels yourself or did you have a shop do them? Are the holes laser or plasma or waterjet cut? I just got the 4" round lights, quality seems far better than the surface mount ovals I had before and I now see how these things mount up. Little...
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    94 F-Superduty Tail lights

    I had a set of surface mount ovals and they were hot garbage. Annoying to mount, immediately leaked water and the mounting points broke shortly after. How do those flush mount ovals mount up? Does the rubber grommet just press into a hole and stay in without any fasteners? Maybe that was my...
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    94 F-Superduty Tail lights

    Hey ya all. I am just about ready to mount my flat bed onto my new F-Superduty. Its a 94 7.3idi. I searched around for a few pages but wasnt seeing anything clear for a cab and chassis. The back of the electrical harness was cut and spliced and yadda yadda back at the rear of the truck...
  7. ISPKI

    So what did you do with your truck today?

    Almost done preparing my new slug for it's logging bed. Frame was scrubbed down with a wire twist brush on my angle grinder, rust reformer treatment, zinc primered, plastidip spray - ran out of black, had to finish it with white. Tops of the frame and the cross members were sprayed with...
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    Cab and Chassis Tail lights

    Hey ya all. I am just about ready to mount my flat bed onto my new F-Superduty. Its a 94 7.3idi. I searched around for a few pages but wasnt seeing anything clear for a cab and chassis. The back of the electrical harness was cut and spliced and yadda yadda back at the rear of the truck...
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    95 F 450 super duty automatic shifting up to soon.

    I will preface my response with, I havent worked on a 460 in a long time but I have done a bunch of troubleshooting and minor tuning on 7.3idi mated E4ODs so some of this info may be helpful, some may not... The E4OD relies on some sensor inputs to determine when to shift, one of the most...
  10. ISPKI

    Solid rear brake line.

    Nice find on those SS fittings. Is the 3/8-24 fittings what our trucks use for most of them? I think I am going to order some direct from that manufacturer and test them to see what their material type is. There can be a major performance different between a 400series vs a 304 vs a 316 stainless...
  11. ISPKI

    Interesting gauge mounts

    I was thinking of replacing either of these things with a gauge holder. I would also like to get a cup holder installed but that will be another project for another day. I'm going to start with the right coin tray thing or whatever that thing is supposed to be, mine doesnt even match my truck so...
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    Solid rear brake line.

    Yes! Seems like they would be easy enough to make them out of something a little more resistant to corrosion like Brass. Stainless steel fittings would likely propagate corrosion on the mating component but if you use nickel anti-seize that should prevent that. This might be worth looking at...
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    Solid rear brake line.

    Ive redone all the lines on several OBS trucks and working on doing the lines on my "new" superduty. Do yourself a big favor and get yourself a spool of 3/16" NiCopp line. It is the easiest line to form, it doesnt rot out like steel, and it flares super easy without cracking. Someone else can...
  14. ISPKI

    Interesting gauge mounts

    Neato. I have access to a makerbot replicator at work, a crazy number of printers at my school (they can print a chevy LS block and heads in one shot), tons of sheet metal fabrication capability and materials, and a full wood shoppe. I havent decided what I want to make it out of yet. I really...
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    Interesting gauge mounts

    Hey all, I am installing a pair of pyrometers in my 94 superduty (I salvaged two banks dynafact guages from junked trucks for super cheap). I dont really like the pillar gauge pod setup, they seem to be cheap and dont mount nicely whenever ive installed them. Who has seen or done it...
  16. ISPKI

    Bracket on rear of F Superduty Dana 80

    Got a picture of it. Proportioning valve eh? Never seen one set up like this. Whats the point of the lever and what would happen if it were connected vs disconnected?
  17. ISPKI

    Bracket on rear of F Superduty Dana 80

    Hey all. I was cleaning up the underside of my 94 F Super duty prepping to flush out the rear axle and I noticed an odd looking bracket assembly bolted to it. There is a steel bracket bolted next to the rear diff cover. That bracket has a sort of pivot pin with a banana shaped bar leading to...
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    Exhaust pipe seals

    Well piss, I must've fought those damn donut seals for half an hour. No wonder they didn't want to fit. Odd thing is that when I took the pipes off, a thin crushed seal fell out of them. Oh well. I'll get some high temp gasket stuff and redo em.
  19. ISPKI

    So what did you do with your truck today?

    Is that..a Twin Turbo setup???
  20. ISPKI

    So what did you do with your truck today?

    Yeah french presses are about as close to an IDI as you can get. Invented around WW1 by an Italian fella, contrary to the name, they werent invented in France at all. How does one hear the bearings clicking in these trucks? I can barely hear myself think in mine...
  21. ISPKI

    Exhaust pipe seals

    Hey all, So I recently customized my collector pipe to adapt up to a 4" oval transition to 4" Round pipe at the "Y" joint where the pipes are welded together. What do you all use to seal the flange connection to the manifolds? I used a couple donut things I had in my toolbox but they were a...
  22. ISPKI

    So what did you do with your truck today?

    Maybe we should start a "CDA" group, Coffee Drinkers Anonymous... We have an old family friend who owns a coffee shop a couple towns over. His wife sources the beans and he roasts them all in an old roaster right in the middle of the shop. Best coffee ive ever had was pouring a super fine grind...
  23. ISPKI

    So what did you do with your truck today?

    Wow, when are we having brunch? I'll bring the croissants!
  24. ISPKI

    So what did you do with your truck today?

    Percolators can make some damn good coffee. Yeah i'm not running stacks, 4" pipe straight back, going to do a custom cut and welded tip to hook it down under the frame and out past the wheels but I want to put something on the end of it to keep small woodland creatures from crawling into it...
  25. ISPKI

    So what did you do with your truck today?

    I french press my hand ground coffee 99% of the time unless im on a long drive. Also - Looking at putting a tractor stack topper on my new pipe. Anyone got some shots of those on their trucks?

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