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    all sorts of unusual electrical problems

    Pull the cables off the battery and backside of the alternator. Look for internal corrosion and failure inside the wires. I had the wire completely fall off the alternator wire terminal but of course didn't find it until I had bought a new alternator.
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    7.3 longevity

    Only 145,000 miles (243,000 km) on the odo but she's running like a top. I can actually hear and feel the need for fresh rotella oil changes at 5,000 miles. I'm looking forward to at least 300,000 miles out of this ol girl. You made a good choice from the sounds of it. Enjoy.
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    Court order to fix wife's truck, help please!!!

    Hehe....that's what I did. Give da lil lady a minivan and she's a happy girl. ;Sweet
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    truck surges when cold, lope at idle?

    Nasty cold nite here and forgot to plug the ol gal in. Took two attempts to start it and it loped about a dozen times before smoothing out. Lmao....dang thing's like a farm tractor. Never a lope issue when plugged in and instant firing. Well worth the electricity to avoid the super cold...
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    Court order to fix wife's truck, help please!!!

    Tell her the thing is junk and get it back. She doesn't know enough about a diesel to own it. Buy her a 90's minivan....:D
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    While I was looking for a truck to buy..

    That's a gordigeous pstroke in awesome condition. Well worth the money for the right person. I'd already have it if I didn't already have one....:D
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    Court order to fix wife's truck, help please!!!

    I'm confused. How the h*ll does a judge have the right to make you repair an ex wife's vehicle; especially after she ran it out of oil???? Give that judge an enema! Of course, it was probably a female judge wasn't it? cookoo It's proven these pstrokes will run on almost anything but the...
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    HPOP rattle

    I just went thru all that nonsense. Did the water pump and the upper pulley only to have the tensioned pulley fail. I'm getting the sense that it's best to replace entire groups of things on these trucks when the time comes. That tensioner sure did squeal like a scalded pig before it failed/seized.
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    ps

    Dang....SAY WHAT????? cookoo
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    7.3 Swap?

    dOOOOOd....you'll spend the rest of your natural life making that work correctly. Probably way easier to put a cummins in there.
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    96 7.3L Powerstroke in 86 F-250

    Sounds like a pretty tough conversion. Wouldn't it be a lot easier to put in an ol Cummins engine? (besides, of course the standard blasphemy of a cummins in a ford...haha)
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    won't rev up

    Ain't this just a case of EBPV taking it's sweet time to open all the way? I may have missed something here but have you unplugged it to see what happens yet? I do keep my block heater plugged in (uh, 4 degrees here at moment) but looking at some of these sig locations I don't see why you would...
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    Should I buy this truck?

    Listen to your g'friend dOOOOOOOd. She knows what she's talkin bout. I was blown away by the stability on the interstate with my dually CC and 30' TT. I saw no movement/sway whatsoever when the big rigs blew by. There's also the lil thang about 'looks'. Way cooler look than with single axle. God...
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    Should I buy this truck?

    Dually's are awesome for pulling TT's. Super stable and powerful. Ya babeee!
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    Fuel Leak ?

    These engines have more than one visually misleading thing going on. Old Bull is right on the money. ;Sweet
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    So i got time to mess with it a little

    Git er done right the first time. Every time I cheap out it comes back to bust my balls.
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    Glowplug Removal Trouble

    Another awesome product for this is Gibbs Brand Penetrant. Crazy good stuff. Glad to hear your patience paid off large.
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    >>> ENGINE DIES FOR WHAT REASON ??? <<<

    Wouldn't there be some merit in trying a new computer? Maybe the one that's in there has some weird malady with it. :dunno
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    OTR transmission options

    I don't understand why fooling around with a tranny has anything to do with the DOT. Do they screw you if you deviate from totally stock or something? Up here in the land of cdn bacon I know if you're commercial they're doing you pretty good inspection wise but if private it's still sort of the...
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    Marker light blink?

    Manually hitting the marker lights at the back of the trailer like the truckers do is way cool. I think I wanna do that as well. ;Sweet
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    Marker light blink?

    I agree. I know I appreciate the courtesy couple of marker blinks when I flash a big rig that's passing me and would like to do the same.
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    Brake Probs When Cold

    Well I finally got around to taking the ol gal into the diesel truck repair shop locally. Took a couple days and initially had the wrong parts come in but it turned out to be the vacuum booster unit that had been replaced last December. Crap, I hope this isn't going to be a regular failure...it...
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    Brake Probs When Cold

    Ain't done anything about it yet but have too soon...just been driving very carefully and using the gears. I suspect the vacuum pump is the culprit. Everything was replaced a year ago. Ya, I know I'm playing with fire cookoo
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    Driveline vibration mystery

    I've been down that road. Had to re-balance the drive shaft. Had to keep speeds well under 30 to get home. It had spun off a weight. In fact, you might inspect it first to see if one has come off. Odds are you'll find that's the problem.
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    Brake Probs When Cold

    Ya Bull....u prob called it. Time to drain/replace the fluid, but it was replaced last December.

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