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  1. Golden Helmet

    The Official "Show Us Your Ride" pictures of member's trucks thread.

    Nice truck! I love that grille, I've never seen one like that on a bull nose. Did you make it yourself?
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    I guess I should have replaced....

    Are all your hard line clamps in place and in good condition? If one or more missing you'll keep having your injector lines break on you.
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    odd issue.... sound system vs. hydroboost

    Maybe a stupid question on my part, but are you sure it's the hydroboost causing the sound? My truck has something similar going on, when braking there's a slight buzz from one of the right-side speakers. It's done it for as long as I've owned it, before and after hydroboost. I figured out that...
  4. Golden Helmet

    So what did you do with your truck today?

    I got my new stereo system installed in my truck today. Got a Kenwood deck up front, front and rear JBL's, and a baby JBL subwoofer. Not a whole lot of kick to the bass, but all I wanted was crisp and clean audio with a little something to pick up the lows. Absolutely loving my setup so far, and...
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    Did I get the wrong starter relay?

    I need to do some reading up on how the alarm works, because I am leaning in that direction. This all started immediately after the hydroboost swap, changing out the pedals was a fight and I'm worried that I might've disturbed a wire or two. My truck does have a switch that disables the...
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    Did I get the wrong starter relay?

    I tried some things this morning. First attempt to start the truck with the key failed, I tried moving the steering column, jiggling the ignition switch, and tried putting it in neutral, nothing worked. I jumped the small post to the big post and it started right up. Then I shut it off and...
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    Did I get the wrong starter relay?

    My sig is filled out and it's showing up in my posts on my screen. Weird. Anyone else having the same issue? Anyways, the truck has an E4OD and tilt steering. I'll try what you suggested tomorrow morning if it doesn't start, thanks for the tips!
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    Did I get the wrong starter relay?

    I'm just gonna bump this instead of making a new thread. The new relay worked perfect for the first few days, but now it's acting up. When you turn the key, sometimes the truck cranks like normal and other times you turn the key and nothing happens (other than the gauge cluster turning off...
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    Did I get the wrong starter relay?

    Thank you guys yet again. I just put the relay on, ignored the extra post, and the truck start right up with no sparks. Back in business :D
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    Did I get the wrong starter relay?

    Go figure, 2 days after getting my truck back with the hydroboost working, the starter relay on the fender craps out on me. And now it looks like I got the wrong relay, because I just can't catch a break sometimes :rotflmao Anyways, I ordered a Motorcraft starter relay from O'Reilly's, and it...
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    Hydroboost swap in progress, hit some snags and need advice

    Don't think I've forgotten about you guys. It's just taken THIS F!@#ING LONG to get it back, if patience were an Olympic sport I'd have the gold medal. The shop I took it to was gone for the first week, then for the next four weeks they never even touched my truck. Kept telling me "maybe...
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    Hydroboost swap in progress, hit some snags and need advice

    I hate to say it, but I threw in the towel. I scrapped the plan of bypassing the booster and decided to just go for the pump, and of course that went sideways. I could not get the pulley to cooperate or the reservoir on the old pump to come off. Got tired of fighting it and had it towed...
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    Hydroboost swap in progress, hit some snags and need advice

    Same problem, changing the valve didn't make a bit of difference. Still buzzing and still puking up fluid when I crank the wheel which introduces more air and the cycle continues. Edit because I don't like posting 4 times in a row: My plan of attack right now is to try eliminating the...
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    Hydroboost swap in progress, hit some snags and need advice

    Alrighty, so the spring and valve are in there, and the fitting has some pushback when threading it in. On my old valve I can see that there's a flat side a a side with a metal screen. Right now the screen side of the valve is on the inside of th pump and the flat side is pointed outside the...
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    Hydroboost swap in progress, hit some snags and need advice

    This may be the part where I screwed up, I was working with a friend today so he set up the vice and removed / installed the fitting while I cleaned and lubed the reservoir. I didn't have my hands directly on it, and I wasn't paying as much attention as I should have been. I was in a hurry to...
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    Hydroboost swap in progress, hit some snags and need advice

    I think you're right. I had someone hold the brakes while I looked for the noise, the high pressure hose from the pump to the hydro is curling a bit and intermittently buzzing like crazy. I'll tear in to it tomorrow morning and make sure everything is there, I don't specifically remember seeing...
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    Hydroboost swap in progress, hit some snags and need advice

    Here's some more info, i'm working on the truck right now. When I hold the brake pedal, after about 5 seconds the booster starts loudly buzzing and I can feel it in the pedal. The pedal initially holds firm, then it buzzes and the pedal drops, then starts to kick back. If I step on it hard...
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    Hydroboost swap in progress, hit some snags and need advice

    The MC is the old F250 one, it was working perfectly fine the other day when I parked the truck and I haven't touched the brake fluid during this project. The steering is hard as a rock too, thats why I was thinking maybe crossed lines or a bad pump. I watched the level in the reservoir rise and...
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    Hydroboost swap in progress, hit some snags and need advice

    Alrighty. So now I've moved on from small problems to big problems. The reman power steering pump is on, everything's hooked up... aaaaaannd the steering is rock hard and the brakes don't work. I'm lost in the woods now. My friend and I spent half an hour bleeding it, turning the wheels lock to...
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    Hydroboost swap in progress, hit some snags and need advice

    I don't mind removing the pulley, I've never done it so it's just one more thing I get to learn (which will be handy when the 3G swap happens). I've got a reman pump thats going on, just gotta borrow a vice so I can remove the pesky fitting and get the reservoir on it. I'm trying to avoid using...
  21. Golden Helmet

    Hydroboost swap in progress, hit some snags and need advice

    With all the small detail stuff I've been getting stuck on, by the time I'm done I'll be owing everyone on here a case of ribeye each LOL
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    Hydroboost swap in progress, hit some snags and need advice

    That's looking more like it, now everything fits on the rod. Now it's on to the fine tuning, I can get the switch to a spot where the brake lights work correctly, but after a few applications the lights will stay on. Gonna have to RTFM on that one I think. Not sure how the Super Duty brake...
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    Hydroboost swap in progress, hit some snags and need advice

    I just got a better look at the junkyard pics I took, I think I see where I'm going wrong here. As soon as I finish my pizza break i'll mess with it again, and i'll take pics because it looks like I found a rookie trap :D
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    Hydroboost swap in progress, hit some snags and need advice

    Back at it today. Got the MC mounted to the hydrobooster! What a PITA that was. Question for you guys, is the firewall supposed to flex when you're hard on the brake pedal? I haven't hooked anything to the booster yet other than the MC, so it's not powered yet. Still fighting the brake...
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    Hydroboost swap in progress, hit some snags and need advice

    The clip you're talking about, do you mean the cotter pin? I'm asking because I broke some piece of plastic while removing the old pedal assembly, I thought it was a tab for the brake switch connector so I didn't worry about it. Now I'm wondering if I broke a clip that's supposed to hold the...

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