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    Help needed possible ip issues

    Ok well it all started on my way into work last Wednesday. It was 7 degrees and about half way in my truck started to sputter and lose power and before long it wouldn't rev past 1,000 rpm then it just died. I automatically assumed the fuel had gelled but after 5 minutes It started and I drove to...
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    Clutch master

    Ok so I have been feeling with clutch master issues a lot with my truck, 3 cracked plastic ones cracked then I switched to the steel ones then was fine until I did a 5 speed swap and my firewall cracked, after that I installed a reinforcement plate, shortly after the pushrod bent and snapped at...
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    Clutch not disengaging completely

    Ok so my transmission has become nearly impossibly to get in gear, but if it does go in the truck will jump forward about an inch or so, the hydrolics are all ne, have the grim joint mod. Yes my firewall is craked and the firewall flexes out about 3/16 to a quater inch out. Do you think this is...
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    Turbo

    I have a garrett turbo from I believe a factory ats kit, has wastegate and adapter for downpipe attached, no play but it looks as though the wheel may have kissed the housing at some point( a few scratches on the housing, wheel looks fine) but it may have been rebuilt since? Took it as trade for...
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    Wiring issues

    The po of my truck was a wiring hack and put about 20 lights on my truck for no reason, hacking up the harness, I got rid of a lot and took out miles of useless wires, and all was good for a while, but know I'm having problems and because of the po's incompetents it's almost impossible to trace...
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    Transmission trouble

    Ok so my transmission(t19) started grinding quite a bit so I drained the fluid to change it and found 5 or so metal shards about the size of a pencil eraser so I took them out. Should I put fluid in and run it or should I throw an np435 that I have lying around in it. They are both 4x4 and I...
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    Towing

    I have some questions regarding towing, the owners Manuel of my 86(truck in sig). Says max gcwr is 1200 for a 6.9 Manuel transmission 3.55 or 4.10 gears. Well my truck weighs 6500 wet so that means I can tow 5500 no matter what. That seams like crap to me. With a proportional controller, air...
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    Brakes

    Well like an idiot I have been driving with horrible brakes, when driving slow (5-10) it stops fine but feels spongy, any faster I can stand on the pedal and it feels like I'm ddriving a compact car with the brakes on and a trailer truck pushing me down the road (takes forever to stop). I have...
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    Time for a 12v?

    So I'm thinking it's time for a cummins swap, my truck is burning a gallon of oil every 1000 miles even after valve seals, an auto rx treatment, and a new cdr(it did improve though from a gallon in about 500 miles). I guess it needs rings despite testing consistently between 420 and 450 psi...
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    Guages

    I just ordered 3 guages from glowshift, ya I know they are not the best but they are relatively cheap, I got water temp, oil temp, and oil pressure. What should I be seeing number wise on each guage? And what numbers should I start to worry? Also It came with an obs a pillar pod that I'm not...
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    Block heater falling out

    So today I was driving down the highway in my rig when a couple of girlies in a jeep pull up along side me all smiling and what not, and then not 30 seconds later my truck starts pouring white smoke so I pull over, how embarising haha. But back to the important part, I pulled over and it was...
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    Clutches

    Well I picked up a parts truck with a zf-5 for 500 bucks. It's an 87 6.9 f250. But I'm wondering what clutch to get for it? I'm going to do a smf conversion and can't decide on the south bend kit for 582 dollars or a valair clutch and flywheel. The valair is a few dollars cheaper and the stock...
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    Cold weather

    So this morning it was about 2 degrees when I left for work, my truck had been plugged in for a few hours and started up nice, it ran good all the way to work( about an hour and a half because of the snow) and when I got there I let my truck idle until I had to go in, after a few minutes my...
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    Zf-5

    Well I'm tired of the 4 speed on the highway and it's about time for a 5th gear, only problem is due to a recent standard transmission swap fad, all the zf's I can find are part of a "swap kit" that people want crazy money for... Or just rediculously overpriced ($1000 for a high mileage used...
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    Instrument cluster

    Can you buy the circuit board thing(don't know what to call it) that bolts to the back of the cluster? I replaced my cluster with one that has a tach, all of the guages work great but only 3 bulbs work, and I replaced them with all new bulbs and cleaned all connections and still only 3 bulbs...
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    6.9 radiator pressurized

    Ok so today I finally finished doing headgaskets and fired my truck up, within a few minutes all the hoses felt stiff so I popped the radiator cap slowly and it shot out coolant, after putting it back on I let it idle a while longer and then coolant pushed out of the top of the lower radiator...
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    Cl find of the week

    Somebody needs this... http://capecod.craigslist.org/cto/4106835354.html I have for sale a 94 f250 xlt with 240,000 miles on truck And 85000 on motor Motor is a opposed twin turbo 7.3 idi it has a stage to boost cam and arp head studs. And lots more email for details .7000 obo
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    Banks parts

    So I am trying to figure out what to do with my cdr valve, I want to still use it but run an rdt out of it, I found something made by banks called the cdr relocation kit (part number 42243) does anybody know what this actually comes with, and does it come with something to plug the hole in the...
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    Oil return

    I know I have already talked about this a few times, but can I run the oil return from the turbo into a valve cover? I was planning on feeding it to the fuel pump block-off plate but my turbo is going where the ac compressor was and I want to make the return line shorter, so if it wouldn't cause...
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    Going from ac to non ac

    Can I switch the entire heater assembly? I know the heater core on the ac truck is under the dash, I like the idea of it being under the hood better. I live in ct and it rarely gets hot enough to even want ac, the one truck I had with working ac, I never used it
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    Turbo intake

    I'm sure you guys are tired of my headgasket/stud questions haha, so here's something different, I welded up a custom intake at work today. Came out pretty good considering it's my second time welding aluminum.
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    Head alignment dowels

    I hate to start another thread but.. Went to put the heads on and found only 1 alignment dowl in the block. I thought that can't be right there where none stuck in the heads, so there where 3 missing already, went down to the parts store and none of the felpro sets say they will fit, and it...
  23. S-west

    6.9 Head stud installation

    Ok I'm about to start putting my heads back on and already have read up on this. Tap the holes in the block to clean threads, ect. But I also read that the studs should be tourqued down 5 times? So am I supposed to go through the entire sequence 5 times? Nowhere in the instructions that came...
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    1250 degrees

    I know that is where aluminum starts to melt, but are sere pistons really that soft? I would not want to see egt's like that regularly, but about a week before I blew a headgasket I got inpatient on the highway and passed somebody on a hill with my truck redlined (75 mph) anyway my pyro read...
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    Any possible way to rig a blowoff valve on an idi?

    And no I do not mean waste gate. I'm just curious to see if it's possible(I know not practical). On gas engines they work because of the throttle plate and vaccine changes, we do not have any of that, but there is a kit to hook up a blow off valve to diesels that uses a pressure sensor and micro...

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