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

    Anotehr option nobody has mentioned is a 7 speed EZ shift. For daily driver its a pretty sweet box, seven speed straight shift pattern fully synchronized 2-7. Would make for something the wife could drive without wanting to take a ball bat to you
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    10 speed eaton fuller or road ranger behind a 7.3 IDI has it been done

    Actually that baby should have a deep reduction range, then under direct and over. . You pop it in first in the brownie then go through the gears in teh main box, then to 2nd in the main and under in the brownie, 2dir, 2od- 3ud 3dir , 3od-4ud, 4dir, 4od- 5ud 5dir, 5od . on my 3 speed...
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    Powerstroke Oil Filter

    OK, that amsoil unit is not just a bypass adapter. that is a complete full flow diverter that goes with their dual remote system and yes, it is a great setup and will work on your engine. There are much cheaper ways to get an amsoil bypass filter on your engine if you would like PM me
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    Powerstroke Oil Filter

    If youve found a sandwich adapter that allows full flow to the main filter that simply has a side tap for a bypass filter, then that *should* work, but yo may have clearance issues. Do you have a link to this?
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    Smoke Puff Limiter

    After having tuned more of these things than I can count, I can tell you how, you dont need a dyno ( and it probably wouldnt help ). You just adjust the diaphram screw on it ( there will be a screw and locknut going down teh center of it adjusting the tension ) till when you go to get on the...
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    Smoke Puff Limiter

    If I had the cash, Id have one in a heartbeat. all my bosch pump equipped euro diesel cars have those critters stock, and they work great I always wondered why stanadyne didnt add one, and I spoke with the guy at Hypermax and he had come to the same conclusion... except he DID something about it...
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    The heads are off part deux, other chemicals to use for stuck rings???

    Not true at all. Sticky rings are one of the most common ailments in diesels and their symptoms get blamed on a lot of other things. It happens when the ring grooves get packed up with soot and varnish. Once that hard stuff gets to the point to where a ring can no longer flex, or flexes...
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    4:10 or 3:73

    Ah yes, California logic. Reminds me of about 30 some odd years ago , out there, I was driving home from a meeting late, doing right on or a tad under the speed limit, with cars whizzing by me at 30+ mph faster left and right, all the sudden, the cop lights come on behind me. I pull over...
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    10 speed eaton fuller or road ranger behind a 7.3 IDI has it been done

    , no not a divorced T case. The brownies are the old auxilliary transmissions out of older semi trucks from the 40s- 60s . The best ones to use are from the mid 50s to 60s , i.e. twin sticks . the 5831b spicer like i have a is a real good match for a zf5 with 4.10 rear Its a 3 speed ...
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    10 speed eaton fuller or road ranger behind a 7.3 IDI has it been done

    10 gears.... who needs a measly 10 gears .... when you can have 15 :D Just leave a 5 speed up front and pop a 3 speed brownie in the back... like I did ;Sweet Makes it a lot more drivable around town, the deep reduction range is INSANE when towing heavy in tight steep places, then the split...
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    new here 91 f 350

    You wont be sorry. I was the first guinea pig who did teh research and tried those pumps out. When I went into the Carrier transicold dealer to buy the first one of those things , it was hilarious, Those things are factory equipment on the reefer units, and the partss guy had a case of...
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    4:10 or 3:73

    WELL, I've got a 4.10 rear in mine and I tow like a maniac and Ive got 15 gears to play with , with double OD and personally, when I'm towing, I feel like 4,10 is still too tall. 4.56 sounds a lot more workable really. Running around empty, Im in double over anyway so it would help with the...
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    diagnose blown head gasket

    second the combustion gas test kit. Just make sure to remove the CDR and block off the point where it enters the engine. before running the test, then block rad with a chunk of cardboard and run up to operating temp to where you can see coolant circulating before testing. Blowby gasses entering...
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    dual stabilizer - will this one fit?

    Never used to see steering stabilizers, except as an add on and that wasnt until around mayby late 60s at the earliest ( and thats stretching it ) The point is folks used to have to drive more attentatively. Used to be that you didnt dive into potholes with abandon and you dang sure didnt...
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    Fan clutch is shot , suggestions?

    Youve been lucky Failure rates on haydens are extremely high. Average lifespan on one of their fans they make for a euro car is about 4-6 months,, when I had my shop, I couldnt count the number of those things I ran across dead. Most were ones folks had had installed recently on trips, I could...
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    front end alignment question

    To put it in laymans terms, take it to a 4x4 specialty allignment shop. Do some digging around and find teh place in your area that does all the work on the trucks that have the silly high lift kits and tractor sized tires on them, this will be the place that has the experience to properly...
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    Steering box, or shaft?

    I see that you havent been around long enough to have driven very many older trucks. There was a time that 6 inches of play in a wheel on a truck would have been considered downright performance handling LOL You can get a LOT of combined slop in the front end of one of these things and they...
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    What about Fram fuel filters?

    They do make a few performance and commercial and marine fuel filters that are actually pretty good, they are usually drop in canister filters
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    Knock Knock

    When you get things going , get rid of that oil cooler and put one on with AN fittings.. These engines ave too much pressure for a standard worm gear clamp. The only thing that kept it on this long was the hose, once the hose weakened it was a disaster waiting to happen. There are some clamps...
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    dual stabilizer - will this one fit?

    I used to turn wrenches at a Jeep dealership. I cant count the number of vehicles that would come in after customers would add humungous dual steering stabilizers where they came in on a hook after busting a tie rod end, where that type of failure was basically non existant except for EXTREME...
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    Fan clutch is shot , suggestions?

    HAyden are generaly POS , and unfortunaltly, being the top seller does not make you the best quality, it just means that you have under cut everyone else in price and run everyone else out of business, which is aparantly the case with Hayden, as it is impossible to get an aftermarket fan clutch...
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    No power brakes on cold start

    REmember rubber lines need to remain FLEXABLE to hold a seal, if they are old and dried out which happens when exposed to heat, they will not contract along with the plastic fitting when it gets real cold and they will not contain vacuum, it will take until the under hood temp rises enough to...
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    Thoughts on effects of altitude on cold starting

    Yup, its the altitude. The VW is automatically compensated for the altitude to a certain extent, it will adjust itself to lean out and advance the timing above roughly 3800-4000 ft, but when you start approaching double that in altitude, the automatic stuff really isnt equipped to deal with it...
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    dual stabilizer - will this one fit?

    If you put a dual stabilizer on, make sure that you have dang good steering linkage parts, especially the outer tie rod ends and adjuster sleeves. Those dampeners may take some shock out of the feel at the steering wheel, but the load gets multiplied between the tire and the tie rod ends many...
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    Installed Gear Reduction Starter

    Denso starters will spin your engine like a maniac and last a good ling time... but be mindful that you need to also maintain your batteries and cables or you will shorten the starter life

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