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    Fuel additive...do I need it and which one ?

    You can never go wrong with howes, and dont believe the tests youve seen on the internet, theyve ignored the instructions ( as do most people) you need to dose the stuff at 3 times the amount on the label in a pickup or passenger car ( as you really should with most any additive) the ratio...
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    What is the BEST sealant for threads??

    IT Sounds an awful lot like where you have those brass fittings poked in , they are tapped for inverted flare fittings like you would find on automatic tranmission cooler lines, , and not pipe fittings, the two are not compatible, but a person could make the mistake of threading one into...
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    What is the BEST sealant for threads??

    I still cant tell what youve got there, if its something oddball, but if they are simply pipe thread both sides aside from teh barbs going to the hose, it looks like that one pipe fitting was overcut with the thread ing tool and youve bottomed out, in which case, nothing short of brazing that...
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    Battery Maintenance advice.

    In retrospect, a while back I went looking for the battery additives they used to sell in JC Whip-me and one under the Minnkota brand and thyve been removed from the market, aparantly because the things just dont work Best way to get rid of battery sulfation is to not let it happen in the first...
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    Battery Maintenance advice.

    Emsom salts are used in ill fated attempts to desulfate batteries, in all the things ive read, you arent supposed to leave the stuff in while actually driving on it, its only supposed to be put in during a clean out charging and dumped and replaced with fresh acid. From all reports from...
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    Performance mechanical fan

    THeir fan controller you linked to has a 12 amp load limit ( i spent a lot of time reserching those critters and have a $400 one sitting around myself collecting dust that Spal decided couldnt handle the load they advertised it for about 3 months after I bought it ) but a 12 amp fan load is a...
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    10 speed eaton fuller or road ranger behind a 7.3 IDI has it been done

    Ont thing any of you guys have to remember if considering one of these boxes, is you HAVE to get a single countershaft box. A dual countershaft box would eat up your HP in friction losses, not to mention being insanely heavy. Most newer big truck boxes are dual countershaft, they have a habit...
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    Performance mechanical fan

    Did you take a real good look at the specs. Their fan controller has a 12a limit, that tells me their fans arent much to write home about either As far as the electric pump, that would be a crap shoot, but to standa chance, you would need to upgrade the foo out of your charging system to a...
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    Performance mechanical fan

    Ive already got the big wire and mega fuses extra grounds all that fun stuff, all I really need is the big alternator, but Lets just say that I currently have just way too much money and time invested in it and I've had enough. I'm getting too old for this crap Go take a peek at the last...
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    E-pump cause hard start?

    THose batteries are crap and are not intended for cranking big diesels. The red tops( on the rare occasion that they function any more) boast high crancing amps, but that is not what gets a big diesel kicked over on a cold morning, it's the reserve capacity that gets you all that extra key...
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    10 speed eaton fuller or road ranger behind a 7.3 IDI has it been done

    You would need something like that, the correct adapter ring, generally a multi disc clutch goes with those, with a throwout/ clutch brake ( you need a clutch brake to put those suckers into gear when you are stopped, , it activates when you depress the clutch pedel all the way to the floor )
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    Oil Guage acting funny

    Semi trucks just run aeroquip hose right up into the cab straight to the gauge, no isolator, and those suckers last for millions of miles. The reason they use isolators on race cars is because they are PLANNING on severe crash situations ( kind of goes hand in hand with the roll cage :rolleyes:
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    Does anybody carry a spare injector?

    Short answer, No.
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    Idle Fuel Consumption

    I used to drive a big truck in the great white north and I'm VERY familiar with your area, ( and a bus company I used to turn wrenches for had a lot of equipment around your area, and I remember well what they had to deal with ) and you are very correct in your concerns and most of these guys...
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    Performance mechanical fan

    We've all been going down this road for a while now. save your nerves, nothing exists. I really wanted a horten air fan clutch and , no luck, With all the busses out there I figured tha theyd have one, they listed an electric, but it turned out to be a PSD , I called and talked with them and...
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    Fan clutch removal.

    If the gasket on the water pump was leaking, you may have a pitted water pump plate. This is a fairly common problem . i had a few spare plates and couldnt get one to seal with regular sealer , I wound up picking the best plate and taking a TON of gray RTV and litterally spackeling that crud...
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    10 speed eaton fuller or road ranger behind a 7.3 IDI has it been done

    If you do any kind of heavy towing, bear in mind that the original Laycock Overdrive unit that Gearvendors used that GV claimed a 16k GCVW , was designed for a triumph 2 seater, and the one that they currently use was designed for a Volvo 740 passenger car ( although the ones in the Volvos...
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    need trucked timed

    To put it in the simpelest terms. Your injection pump is a timed fuel distributor. on a spark ignition engine, ignition is the point at which a spark is sent to a spark plug from a coil via a diatributor to the spark plug igniting the fuel, on a compression ignition engine , ignition is...
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    10 speed eaton fuller or road ranger behind a 7.3 IDI has it been done

    yup
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    10 speed eaton fuller or road ranger behind a 7.3 IDI has it been done

    1400 is grunting a tad low Torque peak is around 1700. You really dont want to lug it down below that. This is a mid range engine, not a low rpm engine.
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    10 speed eaton fuller or road ranger behind a 7.3 IDI has it been done

    In big truck speak, that means its all in one pattern and its not a ranger, i.e. no air split levers to have to flip, although you REALLY have to keep up with what gate you just came out of and which one you are aiming for ( i think there's a slight offset and not a straight elongated H to...
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    How In the Heck Would This Happen

    Which begs the question: how the heck do you crossthread grade 8 bolts into a hardened crankshaft LOL Some folks have .... er, special skills ;Really
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    Need a new rear hub

    Pretty comman critter, I found one on ebay in a heartbeat when I needed one for the same reason, and it was due to faulty bolts in my case. you might want to locate a set of dealer bolts for that thing if you dont have them already. that is one location i noticed there is an aversion to...
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    Opti Lube?

    No joke.... after that first post was searched...... 20 farm boys around here were off to the feed store and were spiking their tanks already :D They're probably still sitting around scratching their backsides wondering what happened :rotflmao
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    are factory turbo headgaskets different?

    Same thing with the valley pan gaskets Those are all the turbo style now, have been for a while. ( so anyone plopping a fresh turbo kit on a recently built engine, theres no need to punch holes in the valley pan, they are already speced for the factory turbo )

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