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    If I drain the tourqe converter dose it fill itself up ?

    PRoblem with slushboxes is rtv gets to floating around in there and it doesnt have to get in via the screen, it can enter the valve body through a few dozen other points of entry that are generally thought to be exhausting fluid from assorted portings so they are not filtered, but when not...
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    engine brake question/idea

    THis would only apply to original equipment valve stem seals, and there aren't many 7.3s still rolling around that have never had the heads off. Once off, all replacement valve stem seal sets are retrofitted same as the 6.9 with the umbrella seals on the exhaust. They found the positive seals a...
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    Are these trucks getting harder And harder to find?

    AMEN When we were kids, they threw us in the back section of a station wagon to rattle around and play, there were no air bags, seat belts or car seats, just real stout vehicles and defensive driving, and this was when the y still had the prevailing speed law in most of the western states (...
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    Truck for sale

    The thing is nothing but salvage at this point. People think their old junk is gold all the time, but its funny, if they tried to take it to a dealer theyd get their nose all bent if they got offered $200 for it, but that's all that the thing would go for at a salvage auction on a good day in...
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    Cooking batteries!

    That goes for saying with ANYTHING electric on a vehicle. Pull the batt cable first. Folks get a bit lazy because older vehicles tend to be a bit more forgiving and you can tend to get away with a lot of things on them a number of times...... before bad things happen. If you were to be working...
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    water pump replacement

    For those that dont want to blow a fortune, you can take a good long look at the snap on site picture and then think REAL hard about what a chunk of 2" angle with a couple of holes drilled in it and a small curved relief cut out of it could do ( or you could get fancy and try to duplicate the...
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    Rear driveshaft questions/options

    As mentioned check around the big truck dealers and repair shops, they will be able to tell you who does drive shafts and most likely they are not listed anywhere. The place that did my custom shafts when I put my Brownie in does mostly big trucks, but they build for 4x4s etc, but for mine...
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    water pump replacement

    Problem with those type things is *when* ( note I say, when, not if ) they slip, you bust your face and everything else open. Snap on sells a fan clutch pullet holder for a 7,3, its really for a powerchoke, but it can be made to fit ours by grinding out 2 of the holes a tad , and with that...
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    Damaging effects of running garbage fuels

    You can store an injection pump, but you MUST completely fill the thing eo where there is no air whatsoever inside the thing and cap all of teh openings with those little plastic caps TIGHTLY that normally come on the things from a rebuild shop. You can generally buy a handful cheap at your...
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    Rust Proofing YES!

    Imron is what semi trucks come out of the factory with, which is why they go a million plus miles without rusting, but the stuff is $$$$
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    Rust Proofing YES!

    Yeah, Id kind of think that the world environmental folks would have a major hissy if military fleets were spraying down their undercarrages with oils and then fording sensative waterways :eek:
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    Rust Proofing YES!

    I know mercedes and a few other european cars used to use a strip of undercoating along the lower exterrior body metal and doors for a number of years to deflect rocks and in turn prevent paint from beinc chipped, which allows the metal to be easily accessed by salt and water leading to rust (...
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    In bed fuel tank

    He doesnt have a stock pump , or a carter electric that is designed to almost require itself to need a siphon effect by being mounted below the fuel tank. . if you read the OPs signature , he has a facet Dura lift, and that thing is designed to be mounted ABOVE the fuel tank, especially when you...
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    on board air

    Now... exactly how many times , did some jackass in a lexus have to head straight to the detail shop to get poo stains cleaned off his seat after almost running you off the road :rotflmao
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    Tire pressure ?

    I run the door tag pressure most of the time, 58 psi . I value what little remnants of my spine that are left, even with air ride and an air seat, I cringe at every bump . Take 1.5 million miles of big trucks and top that off with the worst kind of arthritis and all the macho done run plum...
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    In bed fuel tank

    Your fuel pump is not going to like it. . Once teh fuel starts siphoning out of that tank , it will overrun the pump and the pump will cavitate ( ask me how I know this ??? That dura lift was designed to LIFT fuel 10 feet, but it does not like having fuel crammed down its throat like most...
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    on board air

    Actually, KW bags would be too stinking heavy . It would be like trying to run semi tires on your pickup. Even if you only put 5 lbs of air in them, theyd be to stinking stiff. I used a set of loose pickup sized bags and mounted them custom in a fashion like KW did off center of teh axle...
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    on board air

    Ive got one of these puppies Viair 480 constant duty compressor set with about a 125 pressure switch and I have an air tank I scavanged off an old semi trailer at a bone yard, all kinds of nice fittings and a pull cord drain already on it, that I mounted under the passenger seat, put a quick...
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    The Oilburners hall of shame

    UPDATE ON DYOUNG14 Well, I'm here to report back on the finality of the situation with Dyoung. Sadly, in my heart, I had truely hoped that I would be able to report back with a retraction, as I am the first one to give credit where credit is due, but unfortunately, this has not turned out to...
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    93 F250 7.3 IDI non-turbo 4x4, 5speed / "131k" miles

    Anytime. That sucker was STUCK. We had to pull the filter head and poke it in the bench vice and go caveman on it :eek: I sure wish folks would learn to oil the blamed filter gaskets and not overtighten the things. ( that one was done at a state maintenance facility .. go figure)
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    Stupid tax

    If you KNOW for sure that it is the original door/ lock cylinder, then you can take the VIN and proof of ownership to the dealer or some full service locksmith shops and they can cut you a key from that information, but at the rate ford door lock cylinders poop out, its anyones guess if the...
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    HELP truck died in middle of the road

    Check to see if voltage is getting to the fuel shutoff solenoid, , if no, check wiring, if so , see if it clicks if uou jump it, if no click bad solenoid, if click, youve got some serious problems . ( maybe) check fuel filter , while it will usually sputter before dying, they can just clog...
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    reseting speedo meter conversion constants ??

    You only get to change it 6times because they want to sell you a new part with an expensive service job. Where have you been for the last 30 years
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    give me 40 acres to turn this thing around

    Exactly how many times is that poor thing going to get sold? ( or I wonder if it ever got sold any of teh other times, because I swear I've seen that thing listed a number of times before )
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    Battery Maintenance advice.

    On the subject of cooling, that got the gray matter churning ( that's always dangerous LOL and I got to thinking it might not be a bad idea to scrounge a couple of those little fender vents off something and retrofit them up front near the batts on each side and attach some ducting to gat a...

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