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    Important Info About Champion Radiator Caps

    I've had that little problem once when I came out to the parking lot at Silver Dollar City and found my freeze plug on the back of teh block had sprung a leak., but if you read the instructions for Evans closely, you can mix it with the Low Tox ( propylene Glycol base ) antifreeze , but no...
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    High rpms

    Youve got a LONG way to go before you get near bouncing off the governer unless you have an IH bus or utility pump in which case you would have already found teh governer before 2900 as those things usually top out around 2800 with a lower torque peak Chances are in a crew cab, you have a 4.10...
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    Important Info About Champion Radiator Caps

    That works out great on paper, but not on old truck engines. I learned decades ago not to trust old truck engines to anything higher than a 13 lb cap and preferably a 7. Even on olddcars I run teh lightest thing I can get away with . Older engines just have this nasty habit of springing leaks...
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    TIMING MARKS FOR TIMING LIGHTS...Tech 101

    Voodoo LOL Actually it is required that you use an advance type timing light. If you are *wanting* to set at 8.5 deg you would set the advance dial or digital setting on the light at 8.5 and then point the light to where the line lines up at 0 and the light compensates internally with a...
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    Thermostat check ball

    I think that would work great. Those flimsy fiber gadgets holding the factory balls in place dont last forever and when thye go, there's nothing to hold the ball in position, it pretty well renders the bypass useless and you need to plug it unless you want the extra flow
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    dripping from clutch inspection cover

    One way to tell if teh chatter is oil on the clutch is to pop the cover and with the angine off have someone hold the pedal down and spray brake cleaner up in there, then rotate it over and do again, repeate till you are fairly sure you have cleaned it all over then fire up and take a short...
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    Help! I'm throughly confused about pump timing.

    EEK SCREECH NOOO :eek::bail:fan: that is completely bass akwards ! As you go UP in elevation, you INCREASE the advance in injection timing and REDUCE the injected amount of fuel to lean out the mix to compensate for the reduced amount of air. You begin making adjustments at around 3800 ft and...
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    How I Stopped Excessive Oil Use!

    Kind of reminds me of the quick break in procedure that a lot of racers used to use on engines that had to be track ready in a hurry. We'd dump a can of Bon Ami into the break in the oil l and run it on the stand for about 15-20 minutes, then dump the oil , pull the pan etc and toss all the...
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    Help! I'm throughly confused about pump timing.

    With the new fuel ideally 9.7 deg basically puts your engine performance right back where 8.5 deg did on the old high sulfur fuel. *.5 deg on the new ULSD would be considered retarded timing due to the difference in the burn rate of the new fuel, you would have poor performance and fuel mileage...
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    I'm a dum@$$

    Don't feel bad. The majority of folks out there have been doing it the wrong way for years. It's just one of those things that has perpetuated itself. had I not gone to a very good mechanic school, I would have likely been marching right along with the rest, and I never would have been able to...
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    Nature of C6 Transmission Questions

    If concerned, it wouldnt hurt to give the tranny a good cleaning to free up the valve body to where it is running at maximum efficiency and deglaze the clutch plates . At the very least some transx, but since you dont have an immidiate problem, some Auto Rx in there would be better, and would...
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    FLATBED WITH CAMPER?

    Around here in hillbilly central, we see deercamp rigs with slide in campers set on flatbed utility trailers all the time, but usually when folks put them on flatbed pickups, they usually rig some kind of toolboxes under the sides to support the things to help keep the balance, , otherwise they...
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    I'm a dum@$$

    Yes. Folks have been doing like bubba told them for so many years and backing those nuts off till things are loose that it seems excessive, but I remember very clearly way back when in mechanic school getting this straight out of the Timkin book from an instructor who was a retired past head...
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    I'm a dum@$$

    When I was turning wrenches at a Jeep dealership many moons ago, when we would have customers come in complaining of such things, after taking them out on the *test track* to see if we could duplicate the problem, 9 times out of 10 what it turned out to be was loose wheel bearings! Guys thought...
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    TIMING MARKS FOR TIMING LIGHTS...Tech 101

    Hey man, thats all effed up. THat 0 with the line through it is really a sideways 1 so that makes it 10 deg cookoocookoocookoo LOL Sorry man , but I had to do it. Everytime someone goes through a ton of effort to put out an extremely informative post, some yahoo always has to post something...
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    How I Stopped Excessive Oil Use!

    You guys have to realize, they sell Kreen in 55 gal drums for a reason. The stuff is really meant for fleets that use it FROM NEW as a regular maintnence item to KEEP engines from ever getting a heavy sludge or varnish or soot buildup, much in the same way military mechanics will do regular...
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    How I Stopped Excessive Oil Use!

    I have no doubt that the Kreen does wonders. I've used plenty of fast flushes in the past, since I've been selling synthetics for about 34 years now and flushing before changing has been a mainstay of proper changover procedures from the start, but I quit using any kind of fast flush a long...
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    double OD and other nonsense......

    Well, that sucks. MOst of the fleet vehicles in this state are base registered in OK or TX , but the state couldn't care less just as long as they get their fuel tax money. WE have such low registration fees anyway that it's hardly worth the bother , it just turns out the others are even cheaper
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    double OD and other nonsense......

    Yeiks, you have a 40 ft overall length limit??? I'd be boned with anything I haul out there :eek: I'm 48 ft with my 5er and 49 ft with my gooseneck carhauler. As far as rebadging the 450, ever thought of getting some fancy simulators with the extended nut covers that stick out a bit over...
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    2 Fuel tank questions.

    well, you can get around that 99 gal bit with a little gray area. I've got a 150 gal bed tank, but what I used was a 150 gal tank off a big truck that is DOT certified with all its original plates on it and I used the original strap mounts welded and bolted to my bed ( along with a couple of v...
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    The day after a rebuilt heads & gaskets R&R, (a what if question)

    Your heads do not have a dome in the combustion area like a gas burner. THis is a diesel. Even if the head is milled, your compression is not going up. THe only relief cut is where the valves recess slightly into the seats and that changes very slightly, not enough to make enough difference...
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    MAJOR Oil consumption

    after replacing teh CDR Id give the auto RX a try. I had one diesel car I bought from a boneyard that ate a qt every 15 miles and it wouldnt even pull top gear , a couple of treatments of auto rx got its consumption down to within factory specs and it turned into a very nice car.. If rings stop...
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    borgeson steering shaft

    I called and asked before ordering mine up, ( well I had to, at the time, they didnt have a stock number for a 92 so it had to be a custom anyway , but....) I was told for racing to go straight coupler, and for street use, to get the vibration dampner, as it would save a bit of wear and tear on...
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    Talk to me about alternators.

    If youve added a bunch of electric fans or other extra electric goodies, even a 3g may not keep up at full load. Before spending any cash, break out a pencil and figure up a load estimate for everything running at once and see if a 3g is going to handle it in stock form.
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    How About This For Timing

    If someone had a ferret AND one of those things, they could figure out what the heck the thing is actually timing at, but so far, a bunch of guys bought those and I dont think anyone has yet to figure out a functional timing point with it yet.
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