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    Hypermax Cowl Induction....

    our truck was a 6.9 non turbo and it was definately noisier. it got old quick with me since the trucks are already noisy. that truck engine blew and we got rid of it so i didn't have to deal with it for long :)
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    Door banging over bumps

    When we got our clunker it had no material on the striker pins. I had some 1/2" pex tubing laying around from a travel trailer rebuild. Cut a piece to length, slit it down the middle and popped it on with the the seam pointing away from the truck and epoxy. Niether door moved until we junked...
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    Carrier Pump Group Buy

    I had one of these on my trucks before it blew up and it never had a problem, less than 10,000 miles. Since then it has sat on the shelf with diesel in it and looped lines. I went to use it to prime my old vw and it won't pump? Its clacking just like always but doesn't seem to want to do the...
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    A chronic case of the gremlins - starter/solenoid/drain/????

    45 minutes into the trip and your battery power delivery was worse than when you started? Have you had your batteries tested outside the truck? If they are good your alternator isn't charging. A few years ago when I got my first diesel we got it from an abusing owner that said it was...
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    lots of smoke under heavy acceleration

    post a video of a cold start and running for the first minute. what color smoke are we talking about? you can probably get your timing close if you look at the smoke patterns and listen for the diesel cackle and know your engine. but its going to be hard to get it perfect. my old vw...
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    idi glow plug controller need help fast please

    I have seen the hot restart problem and its the injection pump. When we got our truck we put the glowplugs on a manual switch. Engine had 220,000 miles when we got it, from 380-440 compression. 10 seconds on first start of the day. If its summer time we could go dirtbiking for hours, park...
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    A/C retrofit questions

    If you are talking about converting a system over technically the "right" way you need to basically replace all the parts due to higher pressures of the r134 so that picture and price leads me to believe you will be short on parts. Or you could just clean up all the parts and flush them if...
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    FS: 1985 diesel parts--cowl intake, injectors, injection pump, 3g alt, cdr, and more

    bump before i throw these things away.
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    Sacramento ca cl find

    i wonder if its possible for changes in fees throughout the years leads to differences, etc. at face value you have all the crap fees and registration, and for pickups they are supposed to have these weight fees on top of that. http://www.dmv.ca.gov/vr/fees/weight_less.htm i came across...
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    Coolant questions!

    if memory serves me i remember watching something on tv about this stuff and they were claiming you don't have corrosion or cavitation issues down the line? having no pressure in the hoses surely would extend their life? regardless of coolant i have learned on my old diesels to use one of...
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    Auber Instruments Automobile Gauges?

    i like them because of the size and you can custom mount multiples that take up less room than the round gages. only thing that sucks is you need 1 each if you want to watch multiple inputs in real time. hook up the aux buzzer to an aircraft buzzer from ebay for people that borrow your...
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    DIeseL require special fuel line.

    Technically it does and you might be surprised to find very little "fuel" line out there is diesel rated. Up to you if you want to take the chance of hosing breaking down and causing restrictions and/or bits to be pumped through your injection system. That could be a very costly mistake. If...
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    Cranking issue after 30 min or more shutoff

    If you aren't talking about cranking speed, I had that happen on our truck with a uhaul injection pump months ago. Freaked me out at the time wondering if I messed up the timing, etc. I could start the truck up cold and then venture out and do some short stops and have it restart just a...
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    93 f250 smoking white, searched lookin for help

    So when you start it up and its smoking white, you smell it and it stings like unburnt fuel? The fact it gets better when warm on that front probably means you just have some air intrusion somewhere even though it might not be leaving puddles on the ground, etc. Seen it when I first got...
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    FS: 1985 diesel parts--cowl intake, injectors, injection pump, 3g alt, cdr, and more

    FS: 1985 diesel parts--glowplugs, vacuum pump, alternator Only things I have left on the shelf collecting dust from the truck in my sig that we had towed away because the engine went south. Not even sure if these are worth shipping. Glowplugs would be cheap to send. Alt and vacuum pump...
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    HELP? Oil everywhere.

    I don't have allot of experience with these trucks but I got mine with a blown oil cooler and oil in the coolant reservoir. I could clean it out, drive for a day and then see some oil collect at the top of the radiator again. I never saw coolant in the oil though and I haven't seen it on any...
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    Anyone running an electric fuel pump?

    I ran the carrier pump on our truck with no prefilter. All seemed well until something happened to the engine, we are now junking the whole truck. Our truck was a beater. Fuel would drain back after being off with the stock setup and there was some kind of fluid breach near a gas tank. We...
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    truck just died. Like it ran out of fuel.

    I have seen my truck vibrate like hell when a tank was running low and I was pointed noise down. I was able to get it going level and made it a mile to the gas station. I have also seen the truck all of a sudden just shut off, me only noticing because of the lack of steering pretty much :)...
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    Heat soak? maby not!

    i had that happen with my last uhaul sale ip and looking back that thing was toast from day 1. 15-20 second hot starting after a long heat soak is better than what I had to deal with, I would literally have to let the truck cool down an hour after that happened! that just isn't right when...
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    electric fuel pump needs

    Ditto here. I installed an l bracket of steel off the bolts on my fuel filter tower and installed the fuel pump and my coolant filter and it seems to still be intact :) And it would be smart to relay it and fuse it. Use the ip power as your relay trigger. Power from the battery, I myself...
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    Does this look healthy?

    I assume that video driving it was warmed up? Is it still stumbling when driving warmed up and on the throttle? If thats what I am seeing you could just have a big mix of air and old injectors/pump. I had this with my truck to a degree when I first got it, but moreso no external leaks...
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    need a wiring diagram asap

    My truck did crazy things like this when we got it home. Couldn't see burned wires from afar but it wasn't long after I found this forum that I saw many talk about relaying the headlight and running light circuit. I did that when I had my dash all apart and although I didn't have melted...
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    damn is my truck going to blow up?(video inside)

    Sorry for my lack of knowledge on this stuff but I got the valve covers off. All the bolts are tight. Spring packs appear to be in place, none broken. The pushrods all appear to be in their grooves and straight. Nothing looks cocked or out of place on the rocker pieces. Just oil up top...
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    Additives in the fuel

    I have been using the gallon size jugs of diesel kleen from walmart, pretty reasonable if you follow the directions. Is 2 stroke oil better or is it cheaper?
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    red instrument light?

    That place is waaay too expensive. Mine are ready to be sanded or whatever to the lens and the wires/resistors are ready to be hooked up, and I got 100 units of my choosing for $23 to my door.

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