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  1. jwalterus

    How did you get into an IDI?

    "How did you get into an IDI?" With a key. :joker: I need a truck to use as a truck. I'm cheap, diesel was cheaper than gas, and I was tired of feeding 460s (IDIs as a rule get better mileage). I still have 460s, I also have small block trucks. I use my IDI more than any other. The 460s will...
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    Push Button GP Setup

    Tap the WTS light wire (I can't remember the color at the moment) into your switched ground and it'll come on when you push it.
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    Battery cables

    Time for batteries. Going to do cables as well, mine are tolerable, but I'm changing to stud top batteries, may relocate as well. The question I have is: should I go 2/0 or 4/0 for the wire?
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    FS 1986 F-250 6.9 Diesel 4x4 $8,500

    Exact opposite up here, at anything over 3k-4k, that truck'd sit for a loooooong time..... Anything over 4k, it's too new to be special, and too old to be worth it. 9K is clean 6.0 money. To be fair though, the oil boom and bust screwed up the used vehicle market here more than...
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    My IDI died on the roadside today

    42 is t-shirt weather......
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    Interest in gauge pods for bulls and bricks?

    Everybody worries about plastic. You know sometimes it's cheaper to stamp something from tin or even aluminum than to do an injection mold, right? :dunno This MIGHT be an option for what it is. As far as I'm concerned, if you did it that way, I'd buy one even if I had to cut the gauge face hole...
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    1986 Ford F350 T19 Transmission HELP !!!

    :puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke: Keylocking threaded inserts. I haven't used a helicoil in years.
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    Batteries load tested ok but voltage dropping

    Should be able to warranty them off of the manufacturer's code, I used to do it regularly, I'd pick up a battery at the junk yard (reading the date codes to make sure it was still in warranty, mostly interstate and delcos), and if it crapped out, I'd take it in and have it warrantied. There...
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    Batteries load tested ok but voltage dropping

    Normal. Your batteries are weak, your cables are bad, or your starter is shot (put a clamp meter on it to see amp draw when cranking). Pick one, but I'd bet on the batteries, when they tested them, they should have told you "this one has XXX CCA, and this one has XXX CCA". Remember, 70% of rated...
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    Batteries load tested ok but voltage dropping

    How old are the batteries?
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    Hypermax Dadiesl IDI Dragster

    :popcorn
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    So what did you do with your truck today?

    Try living in a town based (mainly) around a military base! LOL You can see license plates from every state in the union here. You can imagine what it's like with transplants from TX, FL, SC, NV, AZ.......... They bring 'em in, they show up with their cars with summer touring tires, and they go...
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    Air conditioner and turn signal issue

    Ditto to this. My truck has a weak spring in the ignition, if you don't physically turn it back a bit, the blower motor and turn signals don't work.
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    Sitting truck frozen drum brake advice

    I'd much rather do it on the trailer in the shop, than in the dirt outside in a field. To be fair, we're already measuring windchills.
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    Sitting truck frozen drum brake advice

    My question is: Why hasn't the rear been chained to the farmer's tractor bucket? Just lift it and push it onto the trailer rather than fiddle-f*** around with it.
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    Fuel leak fixed. Couple other questions now 1983 6.9

    15W-40 conventional year round for me. If you go this route, your fuel system and starting system MUST be up to snuff.
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    “Flooding” a 7.3 - it is there something else?

    Compression, and "cranks fast" isn't a measurment. Betcha your starter's weak. Or it could be timing related, how's it run otherwise? Clatter when the cold idle advance is engaged?
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    Fuel leak fixed. Couple other questions now 1983 6.9

    Nice advertisement..... -Lame Just replace the olive and let 'er buck. ad·ver·tise·ment ˈadvərˌtīzmənt,ədˈvərdizmənt/ noun a notice or announcement in a public medium promoting a product, service, or event or publicizing a job vacancy. You need not be the owner or employee of, or even...
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    So what did you do with your truck today?

    Just changed the glow plugs. Lazy 20 minute job, I waited until it warmed up to 40°F this morning. LOL
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    2008 Escape

    Miller...... Multiprocess....... :puke: Just kidding, I'm sure for the average guy they work wonders. I'm not exactly set up like your "average guy", more like someone who used to be a welder/fabricator. LOL You gotta go yellow, they're cheap...... Like plasma cutters. :rotflmao
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    KP D60 high steer

    :cheers:
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    Winter is comming test your Glow plugs.

    Every year in Sept (I'll be doing them this weekend). Hard for the controller to tell me anything when it's been completely bypassed for years. LOL Change them, test the old ones, throw all the "still good" (generally 6-8) ones into a drawer in the shed. I give them away to a few buddies when...
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    Winter is comming test your Glow plugs.

    Why test? Up here a full set of 8 is an "annual maintenance item". LOL ;Poke
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    Cleaning up diamond plate bed rails

    One case (12) would do one oil change and have a bit left in the truck for in between. I buy my oil by the drum.
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    Looking at a truck. Opinions?

    Look on the return, where it crosses under the steering shaft.

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