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    Aluminum Radiators On the Cheap...

    My Champion just showed up. Similar damage as everyone else. Both fittings that screw on to the trans cooler are bent all to hell, but otherwise the radiator is in good shape. Having done aluminum sheetmetal fab work similar to this in the past, I can say that there are some hours in welding...
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    35's on stock height TTB

    The older trucks don't have the issues with clearing the bumper. The fenders themselves hang back farther than the front bumper, and this is the closest area my tires get to. I have about 1" clearance at the closest point. One other thing I thought of; my entire front end has been rebuilt...
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    Score? I think so

    My 84 came with a BW1345. Bolted up in place of a 1356 with some minor mods to the shift linkage. The 1345 is the only original piece of drive train left in my truck.
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    35's on stock height TTB

    Yup, tire dates are from 2002 and 2004........the LOUD ones.
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    NMB2 dyno

    I think the people on the IDI forums are pretty good about doing the work on their rigs themselves. If we weren't, we wouldn't own IDI's. If I paid someone for all the work that has been done to my truck, I'd probably have $20k into it. I realize not everyone has metal fab tools and a machine...
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    35's on stock height TTB

    In case anyone was wondering.... Picked up an old set of BFG Mud Terrians off of Craigslist for $170. They're 35/12.5/16.5 now mounted on my existing wheels, which are 16.5 x 9.75 Weld wheels with a pretty small offset; the tires stick out about 2" further than the front fenders on each side...
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    I think I need another crew cab

    I'd do a CCSB in either a bricknose or a slantnose, since neither of them ever existed.
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    Door Panel ideas

    The Ultraleather I used was really stiff. It took a lot of muscle, a heat gun, and beating the hell out of it with my hand to get it to conform. The vinyl I've seen feels like it would stretch easier, but I don't really have any experience working with it.
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    wheel base

    Google is your friend... http://www.therangerstation.com/tech_library/Wheelbases.html
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    My New All Alluminum Champion Radiator

    I tried to contact Monster Cooling; only contact on their web page is a phone number. Called the number, and it says the number has been changed; called the new number and it's the number for Champion Radiators. Guy I talked to was helpful, says they have been adding more packing material, and...
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    Door Panel ideas

    Here's the thread from when I got the dash put together. http://www.oilburners.net/forums/showthread.php?t=50742 All the photos I have are right there in the first post. I was concentrating more on the dash inserts at the time, so let me know if you want more pics. It took 2 attempts to wrap...
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    Door Panel ideas

    Not door panels, but I covered my stock dash and headliner in Ultraleather. Didn't turn out as nice as I wold have liked, but considering my experience in upholstery work (none) it's not bad. And my dash pad took some serious stretching to get around some of the curves. I think vinyl would be...
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    My New All Alluminum Champion Radiator

    I'm going to order me one of these radiators. Just not sure who from yet. I was going to just order the one direct from Champion off of Ebay, but now I may go a different route. The Champion radiators sold on Amazon are sold through Monster Cooling. They are $195 + $24.95 for shipping and...
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    Hydroboost questions

    I scrounged all of the parts from a wrecking yard for $85. Then a second trip and another $20 for the brake pedal. Wasn't looking specifically for the hydro conversion at the time, and got a screaming deal on the parts. F450's don't show up in wrecking yards too often around here. You need...
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    37's + E4OD + 4.88's = ?

    I'm looking buying some 37's for my truck (hummer tires) With 4.10's and 37's, it should be geared really close to a truck with stock size tires and 3.55 gears. If I go this route, I'll throw a 3.55 speedo gear in there and check the accuracy.
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    HYDRO-CONVERSION QUESTION

    The cruise control switch on mine was a vacuum switch that is actuated off of the brake pedal arm. There was a plastic bracket that hung off of the brake pedal arm that actuated the switch. This plastic bracket does not work on the hydro boost specific brake pedal, but a new bracket could easily...
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    Front Clip Price $

    headlight wiring? battery trays the same?
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    Intermittent power brakes

    Like mentioned above. put a vacuum gauge on a line directly to the vac. pump. Mine stays right about 21 normal driving, about 22 going down the freeway at 2500 rpm. IIRC, anything less than about 20 and it's time to find a new vac. pump. From my old days with an F150 gasser with a big cam, it's...
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    Help! Clutch pedal problem

    Mine had the same symptoms on 2 separate occasions. On mine, the slave cylinder would eventually work it's way out of the forked mount on the side of the trans case. After I got the slave pried into place after the second time, I drilled/tapped a hole through the retainer clip and into the...
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    Two Tone Pickups

    I really like the red/white as well; although I wasn't partial to it until I had it.
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    Fuel Tank Design

    Maybe just get a 38 gallon bronco tank from LMC to take place of your existing rear tank. You can't mount the spare under it, but you probably can't mount a full size spare under there anyway. Anything bigger than stock won't fit up inside the trailer hitch on mine.
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    New guy with some questions

    I managed to retrofit a tach from a bricknose into my bullnose dash - at least that was the beginning of me building an entirely new gauge panel for my truck (big time snow ball effect in my case). The tach can be separated from the rest of the gauges, and wiring is super simple. The tach sensor...
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    New wheels need lugnuts

    I went to my local Les Schwaab tire store, and asked em about used ones - they sell/install alot of new wheels. They let me dig through a huge box of old ones they had in the back (many people put different lug nuts or wheel locks on with their new wheels), until I found a matching set of 32...
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    Are crew cab door panels interchangable?

    Dang Heath, I never saw your response. Thanks for the good words. As for the question from 88IDITurbo, I don't know for sure, but I can tell you that I have bricknose door panels on the front doors of my truck, they fit just fine. There is a line on the door panels that used to line up with...
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    Allison AT 545 Auto???

    In my quest to find a good tranny to bolt up behind the DT360 that I eventually want to shoe horn into my truck, I've done quite a bit of research on the Allison tranny's and came up with a little info on them. Many people have bad things to say about them, but I tend to think they would work...

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