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    New Exhaust Opinions

    if you have a good big truck parts supply like a Truck Pro, get loose 4" pipe pieces and bends to get it where you want and a 4" straight through big truck muffler, it should come in under $150 , will have no restriction and sound good. Only reason they go to 5" on buses is to be certain that...
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    TOOLS NEEDED FOR OUR TRUCKS?

    I have fulltime electric onboard air compressor that runs my air suspension with a nice big storage tank off a semi trailer. Attached to that is a fitting for air tools and I carry a 1/2 in ingersol rand impact and sockets for changing tires etc on the road and also tire plugs and filling...
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    Refigerant vs. Oil ??

    If it's a 2000 van then the charge amounts are 44oz r134a 9 oz pag46 with just front air and with front and rear air 64 oz r134a and 13oz pag 46 with system completely flushed, it it was just evacuated and not flushed , just fill with refrigerant and add about 4 oz oil to account for loss with...
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    Dear Napa,

    You see, young grasshopper, working at a parts counter was once a respectable profession. one that a fella could look forward too after YEARS of turning wrenches had finally taken their toll on his body and a fella could no longer bend and lift and twist, but had gained the experience of a...
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    Hypermax pulse turbo observations

    The ATS 088 uses a T3 /T4 hybrid, not aT 4 and I'm not sure what hypermax does with the inlet housing setup on theirs, but they seem to tout something different
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    Refigerant vs. Oil ??

    You do not need to change lines, they thought that would be the case , but soon found that any lines that had been run with r12 with mineral oil, the oil had saturated the lines and would prevent seepage. However if installing any new lines, they must be barrier type hose because they would not...
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    Hypermax pulse turbo observations

    My ATS 088 does great when I'm pulling my big heavy trailers, it spools up fast and gives me everything i could want, but it NEVER gives a hard boost at low speed with no load. Now I know my truck weighs a heck of a lot more than the f250 with a standard bed that we just put this thing in, but...
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    Hypermax pulse turbo observations

    if either one of us woulda tried to handle a camera with all the nasty grime we were covered with , we would have dissolved the blamed thing LOL
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    Hypermax pulse turbo observations

    We just got through installing a Hypermax pulse turbo on a friend's 7.3 with a zf5 and Ive made a few interesting observations. For one, after getting that thing on, I know that my ATS turbo really blows and not in a good way .. That Hypermax had me pushed back in the seat and giggling like a...
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    Question about freeze plugs

    Yup, that evans is handy stuff. The morons at the machine shop who put my plugs in the first time screwed up big time. I was PISSED, we were on vacation at silver Doller City and came out to the parking lot at the end of the day to find coolant pouring out of the dang freeze plug , and like...
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    CDR Replacement and Misc

    That would be overkill running it that much, although if you are running dino oil, some folks do run a 2 oz maintnence dose in their running oil just to keep the thing running clean, or you could consider just running a treatment about every 30-50k miles to keep it in top shape. I'm running...
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    Dear Napa,

    I wont cut Napa any slack . They pretty much abandoned their commercial customers to chase the DIY market to try and steal autozones customers. THey dropped all their quality lines in favour of shoddy cheap lines that are familiar brands to the DIY customers, although they didnt drop their...
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    Will this coolant work?

    Drop the Dex- Kill and RUN. Do a quick google search on dex cool and class action suits. dex cool and damage, you get the picture. I cannot count the number of engine that I have had to do MAJOR surjury on to clean up the huge mess left by that horrible stuff, and most of them were GM vehicles...
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    Question about freeze plugs

    Here for your reading pleasure in the tech articles freeze plug instructions :D
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    flat towing

    WElll it really is nice to know these things. I've always known about slusheboxes going TU if getting towed with the axle dragging, but not a manual box. My truck has only gone in on a hook one time , right when I first bought th ething, I had almost forgot about it , the steering box locked...
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    1986 smokin column

    SOunds like something in teh ignition switch . Love all that interconnected wiring. Mine started smoking at the turn signalstalk at one time, and had to replace that assembly
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    CDR Replacement and Misc

    Also you want to replace the rubber drain . That little fishmouth is supposed to stay closed and only let water drip out, you wind up sucking really hot air in the wrong direction if that is open like that
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    CDR Replacement and Misc

    I would go with a treatment of auto Rx for sure. Mileage isnt the issue here, but time. You can just about bet there is some varnish buildup in there from age, probably not much in the soot department or sludge, but it tekes very little varnish to gum things up., plus the auto rx will do...
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    flat towing

    Very true, and the rear shaft will spin the cluster in the oil even in neutral, so it wont have a problem with the rear bearing
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    flat towing

    Whats the damage point on this in case I ever have to go in on a hook and have to argue with the pig headed wrecker companies around here like I have to do everytime they pick up one of the Euro cars I used to work on and they would want to argue with me on transport methods... at least non of...
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    Adding AC to 90 F250 7.3

    if you can get a known good system that will bolt in aside from teh condenser fit, it would be an easy thing to get a condenser to fit in there that would do the job. Heck, I just hauld a few to the scrap yard to day that would have worked. The things are plentiful, but I know where to get new...
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    Got home for Thanksgiving and the Brown Truck doesn't seem right now.

    Guilty as charged!!! :eek: I have a separate pump on each tank and a couple of times Ive forgot to switch pumps when i switched tanks. One time I got on the interstate and went about 40 or so miles before I realized it when I got out:rotflmao the lift section on the injection pump will pull a...
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    Adding AC to 90 F250 7.3

    Considering the condition of used factory units in the boneyard after being exposed to the elements, I really dont know if I could recommend going that route as most of teh parts are gonners.. There are a few places that sell kits for a dealer type install , I think arizona air is one where all...
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    Picked up a winch bumper today....F R E E....yaha!

    Well, thats a seriously nice score! Congrats ;Sweet can't wait to see that thing all mounted up.
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    Got home for Thanksgiving and the Brown Truck doesn't seem right now.

    Dont forget the stations should all be fully loaded with winter fuel in your area by now, and that means less power in the pedal.

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