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    Cavitation or head gasket

    I did pull torque on all the head bolts with an old beam type torque wrench and they were all at spec. I'm going to start pulling the head off this afternoon when I get off work and see what the damage is. The spitting thru the intake is the intake valve and I figured while it's apart I will hit...
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    Cavitation or head gasket

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    Cavitation or head gasket

    I just bought an 89 7.3 service truck that has been sitting 18 years due to a bad torque converter. I got the thing to run fairly easily and all was good until I started trying to trace a misfire, i decided to run a compression test and one cylinder came up slightly lower than the rest and was...
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    Vacuum Regulator Valve/VRV for C6 transmission: convert or replace or search for NOS?

    When I broke the vrv on my '86 I got so disgusted with trying to find one I did an e4od swap and just eliminated the need for the vrv all together. It really wasn't that difficult to do and the truck gets better mileage and can run highway speeds without being right against the redline. That...
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    84’ 6.9 Intake Manifold Gasket

    I'm not sure what the deal is with finding them, I'm sure they will come available again but in the meantime I have had to reuse a couple myself and just sprayed them with copper spray ( the same stuff you use on head gaskets and exhaust manifold gaskets). I spray it and immediately install the...
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    E4OD to zf5 swap 1990 F350

    That's a pretty darn smart idea actually! I have the exact length of both written down somewhere so that should not be a problem. I have so many drive shafts laying around from other swaps and part outs I may even have one the proper length.
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    E4OD to zf5 swap 1990 F350

    I'm preparing to do a zf swap in a '90 f350 7.3 idi, I know this is a fairly straightforward swap but can anyone tell me the proper drive shaft length for a 2 wheel drive crew cab? The junkyard I'm getting the conversion from has everything I need but they pile all their driveshafts in a trailer...
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    Here I sit all broken hearted ...

    I've bought injectors from accurate several times and even their house remans are really good, however they don't ever seem to want to credit your cores. It seems like they want your "cores" to be in ready to resell condition, it's never all of them but you'd think they'd expect to receive worn...
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    Here I sit all broken hearted ...

    I've had injectors sound exactly like a rod knock occasionally, specifically if they are constantly dripping fuel. I've also had them sound like spark knock or ping on a gas engine. If your engine sat 18 years I'd say injectors would be a safe bet, every idi I have ever owned has come from a...
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    Vac Modulator Color Stripe

    As far as the color stripe, my transmission guy (who built transmissions at a ford dealer for 35 years) says the black striped one is specifically for the diesel C6 trucks and that's what he installs in every one he builds. I personally always preferred the green stripe one but since he...
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    Looking for a turbo setup for a 6.9 / 7.3 idi

    Sometimes you can find them on eBay complete, there's one seller in particular that is very thorough in making sure they are complete kits. Don't expect them to be cheap though, most ebay kits are 1/2 to 2/3 (or more) the cost of a brand new kit whereas the last one I bought was $600 for a very...
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    7.5L to 6.9L IDI swap

    I've never had problems going 0.30 on a 6.9, hell I think the 6.9 in my bronco is 0.40 over and it does ok. I'm not a big time engine builder and I won't pretend to be, but I've built a few idi's over the years. As far as a 7.3 my machinist won't bore them because of possible cavitation issues...
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    I think this one may not sell very fast

    Wow, I just sold a very average but low mileage '87 extended cab idi truck for $3500, I guess I should have priced it a little higher of course I knew that when the man that bought it just pulled the cash out and paid me didn't even attempt to haggle with me at all!
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    Major Confusion on what is wrong with my 6.9L

    Your issues sound like how my '83 6.9 ran when I bought it, that truck was a farm truck so it didn't have many miles but it had a LOT of idling time. Since it only had 62k on the clock I put a set of new stanadyne injections in it and it woke it up, if it had been closer to 100k I probably would...
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    Yeh, Sad Day. Rare IDI E Gone.

    I don't want to sound like a conspiracy theorist but I'd swear that the insurance companies are in some sort of cahoots with the federal government to take and destroy any older vehicles. When I t-***** a lady that pulled out in front of me in my '85 f-350the state patrolman got really angry...
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    Redneck 6.9 Rebuild (don't try this at home)

    Campfire/pine straw burning smell? Bet your heater box is full of dead leaves and the blower resistor is heating them and making them smoke/ burn. Clean out the heater box or watch the truck burn to the ground, ask me how I know... It happened to me the very first time I drove my '84 F150 to...
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    C6 slipping second gear

    Got my trans back from the builder, had gotten water in it at some point in it's life so there was a lot of crap and rusty parts as well as most of the lining being gone off the band. It had also already had a half **** build done before where they'd spent a bunch of money on upgrades but didn't...
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    6.0 long crank first start of the day

    Got the new turbo in and put back on, changed the oil and filter added a couple ounces of stiction eliminator and the truck is cranking cold like it did when hot before. Also seems to run much smoother and quieter, definitely impressed with the performance of it considering it's lived it's whole...
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    Muffler Recommendations? Straight-Piped ATM

    On my 86 regular cab I had I kept getting stopped by the police for the noise ( turn down at the back of the cab and no turbo) so I went to the local pick and pull to get the exhaust system off another idi truck which there were none. There however was a gas powered truck that had a cat back...
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    6.0 long crank first start of the day

    Glow plugs, harness and controller are all brand new but I checked them anyway per your advice as well as running the system test my scanner does and everything comes back ok. I did finally get to drive the truck and found the turbo was not making any boost at all (unison ring rust welded to...
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    Pillar gauge set

    I might try that glow shift one, it looks like it might work out well enough. If not I guess I can do it like an old semi truck and put a gauge anywhere there's a spot big enough to stick one!
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    6.0 long crank first start of the day

    Let me preface this with the fact that this is the first 6.0 I've ever done any real work to. So this truck was brought to me by a friend from work in a not running condition, he'd taken it somewhere to have an oil leak repaired where they replaced the oil cooler, EGR cooler and valve and valve...
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    Pillar gauge set

    Does anyone make a pillar gauge setup to fit the 80-86 body style ford pickups? I already have boost and pyrometer gauges under the dash and don't want it to get too cluttered under there! I'd like to add a trans temp, coolant temp and volt gauges, unless I can find a pillar pod for 4 gauges...
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    Somebody better buy this truck!

    https://m.facebook.com/marketplace/item/4286116878086209/?search_query=inventory_management Selling my crew cab if anyone is interested probably asking too much for the work it needs but where you going to find a decent running driving bullnose crew cab cheap. If I'm not allowed to post this...
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    C6 slipping second gear

    That's a definite possibility, the engine and transmission had been sitting since 1999, I'll pull the servo cover off and check that before I pull the trans. I have thought about building the trans myself but I have a friend that built transmissions at a Ford dealer for 30 years and charges...

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