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    anyone convert their CC to a sleeper?

    Some of the newer crew cabs have a rear seat that folds out flat into a bed the widtd of the entire backseat area up to the back of teh front seats, it would be *just * big enough for 2 if you were REAL close friends :D Ive been married for over 20 years, the wife and I drag a 5er with a nice...
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    Clutch slipping? How to tell?

    An oily clutch will chatter like crazy when pulling out with a heavy load, if it engages smoothly, then it's not oil. You may also have another issue clouding the works. Do you still have the dual mass flywheel ? THat's a good size trailer. If you still have the factory DMF, you may have...
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    Bed style opinions/debate

    I LOVE my Western Hauler bed. That deck is heavy enough to where I can throw ANYTHING on it and not worry about damaging it, and it has just enough side to keep stuff from wanting to walk off teh sides, so it makes it easier to tie down. Only modification I made was to weld on a set of stake...
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    Which clutch?

    You can go 12 or even 12 1/4" (which is generally a redrilled 12" to fit the 12 1/4 but gives a little more surface area ) if you go to a SMF with the larger discs, you end up getting basically as many dampening springs as you had with the DMF so essentially no rollover noise, where an 11in...
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    Tires: Bias/steel side wall/radial/steer/traction/all terrain/etc?

    Security Chain, Whitestar CHains They are made in a diamond pattern that stays tight and from a lightweight alloy that does not break. When I switched to teh big truck version of those things, I never had to repair another broken link, and running where i used to, it was a constant occourance...
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    Tires: Bias/steel side wall/radial/steer/traction/all terrain/etc?

    They are a fabric tire, and unless theyve changed teh construction in the last couple years, the ply construction on those things, even though it says radial on it, does not go straight cross wise , when I resesarched it they were using an inverted stacked angular fabric belt pattern that...
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    Tires: Bias/steel side wall/radial/steer/traction/all terrain/etc?

    AH, when are the americans going to realize that WE dont know EVERYTHING. news flash folks. We are so far behind the rest of the world it's not even funny, WE've been sucking hind tit on technology for quite some time. Ive got those nice fabric bias ply radials on all of my cars The only steel...
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    Air shift brownie on ebay

    Yea, I misread that, you wouldnt want to hang the thing right off teh diff itself, you need a shaft in between., but it doesnt have to be overly long, depending on how long your cab is, you have to keep in mind maximum single shaft lengths. Uou can make a really short shaft, but then you get...
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    Care Package From Kano Labs

    Yah, They nail me about $20 at the HVAC supply, but its handy when I'm in the middle of something. I kind of got in the habit of running over there when I was working on customer cars and I didnt have time to wait on stuff. I really need to learn to be a bit more careful with the cash these days.
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    Tires: Bias/steel side wall/radial/steer/traction/all terrain/etc?

    If I could GET bias tires around here to fit my truck without having to mail order, I'd be running them in a heart beat. Steel belt radials just plain scare me. Back when I had my semi truck, I ended up switching over to all bias ply tires after all my overpriced radials crapped out. And they...
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    "Wrist Pin Knock" questions.....parts motor with new IP

    Sure sounds fuel related. id if pensacola has had their hands in any of the parts, all bets are off as far as functionality of whats in there. A diesel fuel knock sounds EXACTLY like a gasser that is about to throw a rod., but that little man with a hammer on a diesel is rarely mechanical in...
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    Typical of whats in my area. People want a fortune for their junk!!!

    GEez, guy, if he's gonna put that much into the thing, would it kill him to slap at least a cheap coat of paint on it ?
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    Hydroboost, air filters & ceramic coating

    I run teh amsoil filters as well, Huge difference between them and K&N, as the Amsoil filters dont let crap into your engine. The element is designed to trap particles at different layers instead of just at the surface, so it doesnt quickly clog HOWEVER it is not a super free flowing air filter...
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    Typical of whats in my area. People want a fortune for their junk!!!

    You guys in Michigan have some interesting rust. Had a young fella living down here for a while and wanted to go through his f250 befre moving back... good thng we did. If he'd have loaded that sucker down, he'd have wound up in a ditch. The spring hangers were rusted so bad that when we went...
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    Air shift brownie on ebay

    AS mentioned, you could mount in any position, Mine is mounted back under the bed closer to the diff than anything else, and yes, you can angle the box to take up part of the driveshaft angle, in fact, when I was building my mount, I used that as part of my design. I had a few inches up and...
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    Air shift brownie on ebay

    Oh yes, they can be stacked in any configuration. It wasnt uncommon on short log rigs to see two brownies stacked nose to tail . One with a deep reduction and one that just had 4 evenly split gears. You want to talk about something that could climb trees. As long as you can fit it in, you...
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    Air shift brownie on ebay

    BINGO! THis is what folks dont realize. These were for the heavy haulers of their day. Just because they came out with the 1241p twin countershaft model and everyone went to that on all the newer ones, folks think that the older single countershaft boxes are wimpy for some reason, nothing...
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    Cleaning up the carbon ridge while in the vehicle.

    Will scantily clad females suddenly find themselves unable to keep themselves from rubbing their most personal parts on your engine after doing this ?? :D
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    Air shift brownie on ebay

    You would have to get driveshafts made up. You *could * have yours modified, personally, I'm captain overkill and I like to have backup plans. Even though I have an auxilliary that was built to pull 73,280 + pounds and teh chances of it failing are somewhere between slim and none, I still dont...
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    nice idi utility truck on CL

    Its extremely clean, so long as you go into it with the mindset that you have the cash to do a full sleve job rebuild and talk him down a tad on the price to go with that, I'd say go for it. nIf it turns out to just be a head gasket, then great, but you're the one taking the gamble with the...
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    Air shift brownie on ebay

    1st ( deep reduction ) 2.40, ud 1.22 , dir 1.00, od .813 Its very similar to what I have in my brownie, except I dont have the extra UD gear. With a 4.10 rear I tow heavy on the interstate on the flats in 4 over most of the time for optimal fuel mileage and power ( and rarely have to shift...
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    Cleaning up the carbon ridge while in the vehicle.

    BAsically you would just lower your compression a tad. Only thing I could see happening with old rings in there is maybe making it the slightest bit harder to start on a real cold morning. If you arent going to freshen up the rings, leave it alone.
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    Typical of whats in my area. People want a fortune for their junk!!!

    Around here, folks selling used trucks, want you to make the payments on their new mistake that they just dropped enough down on to buy a half decent house around here. I wouldnt even look at the things. When I got mine, I ended up going to Oklahima. Theres scads of decent work trucks in...
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    93 f350 trans ishues

    Is the speedometer behaving normally, or is it jumping around a bit ?
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    Electric Fan guys!

    Little thing called tempting fate. THe engine may be able to handle it, but there are some plastic things running across and threaded into the engine that have a habit of not liking those really high temps. On one of my engines where I had a stat stick and it got REAL hot, there was no...

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