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    As the project rolls along. Very, very slowly. Drive train build.

    Back again to provide more cheap entertainment. Well, I called. . . ASME(?) for the flange/ferry bolts/screws 9/16 X 12 X 1.25" Grade 9 hardness, I found them at 2" length. 25 of them for a price break and with expedited shipping came out to roughly $160. Hope to see them around the end of the...
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    As the project rolls along. Very, very slowly. Drive train build.

    Top pic would not show me using the official 5 gallon gas bucket for cleaning parts. Disposal of it is easy enough. Just leave the lid off and watch it evaporate slowly. Middle pic shows 2 of the brackets that need to come off. With the engine in limbo, this should get done soon enough...
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    As the project rolls along. Very, very slowly. Drive train build.

    Last night was the end of a long day. I can tell by the amount of things I left out to get wet in a morning passing shower. After looking for the 9/16 x 12 x 1.25 Ferry bolt or Flange bolt or Flange screw, I have come to find they are a grade 9 bolt and about $6 to $12 each...
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    Complete electrical failure

    Mebbe that lack of a good ground made a nice power surge to fry the link. . . . uh, oops?
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    Turn Signal problems

    Start with the tail light ground . Should/might be on the left side of the tail gate under the bed.
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    Complete electrical failure

    I venture to say. . . you have a bad fusible link off the solenoid. Locate the solenoid and look at the outside of the wires. Chances are you won't notice anything. Take each one individually and pull. The good ones won't stretch. The bad one will stretch because the wire melted inside the...
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    As the project rolls along. Very, very slowly. Drive train build.

    High dollar project that has it's roots in a beer budget. My broker is amused by my folly. Today was breakfast in town with her van that took me to town with metal to metal brakes along the way. Stopped off at the parts store on the way home and doing her brake job that took up enough...
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    As the project rolls along. Very, very slowly. Drive train build.

    Yesterday afternoon was fun. I go the Dana 60 front axle a bit closer to done. New ball joints on it with fancy lock pins instead of the common cotter pin. I even replaced the roller bearings inside the hub and all the seals. Things were starting to roll along fairly well and then I...
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    As the project rolls along. Very, very slowly. Drive train build.

    Wow, u smart n' stuff. I am just mostly stuff and usually full of it. I remember working a Shell service station many years ago and doing oil changes on customer cars using Shell oil. Regular customers would come in for the oil change and most of them right at 3,000 miles and the nasty, stinky...
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    As the project rolls along. Very, very slowly. Drive train build.

    Well this is fun. I just got of the phone with Promar and reportedly the engine I sent back has been sitting for a shade over two weeks waiting to get un-crated. Supposedly it will be looked at next weeks and I suspect with best case scenario, I might, might see it back in another two weeks from...
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    As the project rolls along. Very, very slowly. Drive train build.

    Well I found out that the Dana 60 uses shims between the carrier bearing and the carrier. This makes switching shims a real joy. On and off and on and off and on and on and on it goes. . . . Not me. I also found that American Gear is the cheap version of Yukon Gear. One uses Timkin...
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    As the project rolls along. Very, very slowly. Drive train build.

    ALL the trans toys came from Custom Automatic Conversions out of Florida. i got the entire kit from them rather than pick a part here and there and hope it all works. Today is drill a hole in the diff housing for the wiring and see if I can at least get the ELocker installed. The front...
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    As the project rolls along. Very, very slowly. Drive train build.

    Well the mobile work bench is in play once more. Today was a day of putting out little fires here and there and not much was done. I did get the steering linkage put together and that went easy enough. Got the Dana up there and cleaned it out a bit. I was surprised to see no...
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    As the project rolls along. Very, very slowly. Drive train build.

    Tigard, I have lived and worked in Tigard and surrounding area. I have been from Portland to Woodburn in employment adventures. Today was unbox the trans and take a quick look as it started to drizzle and then box it all back up again and cover it with a tarp again. Found a...
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    As the project rolls along. Very, very slowly. Drive train build.

    Lets see now, the project rolls along. the E4OD is out and the Allison got picked up from the freight depot. I got it home in the back of the truck and used the official tractor with pallet forks to offload it. I opened the one other box with the torque converter in it and then closed it up and...
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    As the project rolls along. Very, very slowly. Drive train build.

    Loopey? No, not me. I did manage to put a gear into the BW 1356 transfer case upside down. Naturally I got it all glued back together and it failed the bench test. So tonight it's back apart and tomorrow it will get back together after I put blue thread lock on the pump and then a trip to town...
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    a sad day

    I understand 'investing' beyond reason. I hope to also get my toy running and Haggerty insurance. My insurance company might pay off on about 25% of money spent with full coverage.
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    As the project rolls along. Very, very slowly. Drive train build.

    Well, here I is, playing with the toy. '94 7.3 idiT crew cab dually. The Mishimoto brand transmission cooler for a 6.0 Ford being used for the Allison showed up and after some looking at it, I decide to mount it in front of the A/C Condenser. This gives me about an inch each between the trans...
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    E4OD issue

    Two ground points? Uh, you might desire to research it a bit more. One on each inner fender kick panel, one at the tail gate on the left side. One on the firewall at the right hinge, One at the . . . left battery . . . Then there is the trans unit itself plus the TCM ground(S) and I know...
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    BW 1356 Transfer case and things that go bump in the night

    Greetings one and all. This is getting to be fun. '94 7.4 idiT crewcab dually. Waiting for the Allison trans to show up and the Promar engine to return. Currently the BW1356 transfer case is out and getting gone through again. Seems the last time it was put in with Mercon V trans fluid...
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    New episode, Half a truck or I broke my toy. '94 idiT Crewcab Dually.

    Radiator! Oh yeah, I remember that $650. It was $600 from Rockauto and 1-800-Radiator could have been your friend if there was a local distributor. Probably isn't in Odessa if your looking for an aluminum/plastic replacement. The radiator decided to not quite work going...
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    New episode, Half a truck or I broke my toy. '94 idiT Crewcab Dually.

    Well the engine is out, again, the trans is out, again, the transfer case is out, again, the 2wd front axle is out. I suppose that constitutes 1/2 a truck. The engine was full of metal from an internally busted valve cover baffle over the CDR valve. If you have one of these engines, remove...
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    FIX or REPAIR DAILY. . . (P)*&(O)*&^(S)^*!!

    Nothing wrong with the trans other than the lack of a few extra clutches and steels to take up the slack in the clutch packs. A trick that has ben used an many transmissions over the years. I also do not believe the '95 front pump was installed and the older slower pump model was used. Two...
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    Air stuck in heater core

    Radiator cap replaced yet? Gotta run, looking for info on my . . . "project". Yeah. That's whut it are.
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    Opinion needed on replacement of engine

    The engine currently has a fine coat of very small metal particles throughout the internal block on al surfaces.The busted oiler is just the icing on the top. I was planning on doing it myself but the oiler adds another concept to it that marginally justifies sending it back to Promar for a look...

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