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  1. BrianX128

    Forward facing car seat

    I've never been as irritated in all my workings on these trucks as I am today trying to install a forward facing car seat in my 1990 crew cab. Our infant seat had a belt clamp so we put the seat in the middle in the back, yanked the lap belt and clamped it with the belt lock and life was good...
  2. BrianX128

    Block Serial ID

    A buddy is looking at a replacement engine on fb near us, his truck is a turbo but that engine is cooked. Newer rebuilt turbo. We found a guy with this block but it doesn't have a turbo. Claims the turbo was bad so he got the engine and just tossed it in a n/a truck. I was looking at serial...
  3. BrianX128

    Squealing rear drums

    Anyone ever had their rear drums squeak when braking no matter what you try? E brake isn't on, drums don't look glazed or burnt, no deep scratches or anything. Shoes have plenty of life left. Brake cleaned everything, adjusted them for a little drag and drove the truck. Fine for a few hundred...
  4. BrianX128

    School me on 2wd Front Brakes

    I've somehow never had to do front brakes / rotors / bearings on a 2wd F-series anything, just wasn't sure if there was anything crazy I'm going to run into here. I found some youtube videos of people going through this, but never on on an 87-91, and never on a single rear wheel vehicle. I've...
  5. BrianX128

    Tightening up Steering

    Anyone ever break the big nut loose on the steering box and turn the threaded part in a half a turn and lock it back down? My 90 f350 [2wd] is going to need new tires and I figured I'd get it aligned as the outer edge or the passenger tire is wearing more than the rest up front. I then noticed I...
  6. BrianX128

    Power window fiasco

    So this makes no sense but I've given up on finding the root of the problem for now. In my 92, the window doesn't go up from the passenger side only the drivers side. I tried a new switch but that did nothing, and verified the switch worked. It's almost like the window can only ground the signal...
  7. BrianX128

    Floor mats

    Anyone have any weather tech or "fitted" style floor mats that fit and conform to the front seats on brick nose or obs trucks? All the generic ones are bad in all the wrong places. Don't cover areas you want or too thick near the gas petal etc.
  8. BrianX128

    AC Experts, Weird Issue

    So this is actually in my 90 F150 with a straight six but it's the same components short of the compressor being a different type of mount so I'm asking here anyways as it should be the same if this was on an IDI. My one truck (Fred in sig) sits all winter, it was my grandpas truck and I won't...
  9. BrianX128

    Tired Steering

    The big truck seems to have some tired steering going on these days. (1990 F350 Quad Cab / 2wd). I know the belt isn't slipping, nothing is leaking, but the symptoms don't line up with anything I've dealt with before. It's fine if the truck is moving at anything more than like 1 mile an hour...
  10. BrianX128

    Infant car seats in these dinosaurs..

    Anyone have any good experience with the newer style car seats with bases in these old trucks? Our son is being born this week one way or another [wife gets induced tonight] and though our two newer daily drivers have the mounting points for the little side tethers obviously my old crew cab does...
  11. BrianX128

    Trailer Brake Controllers

    What's the easiest way to add a decent one of these to a brick nose? I used to use my 6.9 for my towing as it had an old manual brake controller with a brake line into the cab for pressure. My 7.3 has a port on the rear bumper but it only has turn signals and lights wired in, no feed for the...
  12. BrianX128

    AC Condenser as Trans Cooler

    I've seen this done on several vehicles online, just wondering if anyone here has ever done this or heard of it. Not IDI specific in that I'm looking to add a trans cooler to my gasser that has an E4OD but only the radiator plummed cooler, on a 90+ degree day driving in hills I can tell my trans...
  13. BrianX128

    85 6.9 4x4 T19 Bad Engine

    It's time I get this out of my driveway. Supposedly 145k on the engine / truck, #8 will only make 250 pounds of compression and it has a miss / clank noise. I have the valve covers off, and the rocker and push rods out of #8 while I was investigating the issue. Glow plugs are out also to do...
  14. BrianX128

    92 Factory Stereo Removal

    I'm going to destroy my dash in a minute. Factory stereo won't come out of my 92, nothing works on it anyways most of the time. It has the 4 holes on it to release it, left side I can release every time. Passenger side holes do nothing. How do I get this out of here without destroying the dash?
  15. BrianX128

    "Good" 92-97 Headlights

    My new 92 has the usual garbage headlight output of factory lights of this era. My two brick noses Iegit cut the headlights apart to mount projector style bixenon / led 4x6's inside the usual mount because there was no aftermarket support at the time. This model year however has stuff on Amazon...
  16. BrianX128

    Air stuck in heater core

    I made the mistake of getting some air in the system taking the radiator cap off a wee bit hot the other night, now when I go down hill for a bit I have air traveling to my heater core and sounding like someone is running water when I accelerate for 3 seconds until the air moves on. I've tried...
  17. BrianX128

    Cannot have a single good day

    Went to go to work this morning, 6.9 already dead in driveway with likely bent connecting rod. Get in my considerably nicer 7.3 and push my glow plugs and nothing. I have them wired manually with the ground method to a push button, my wts light flashes so I know the relay is getting the signal...
  18. BrianX128

    A Post I Don't Want To Make

    Got up for work today and fired up the 6.9 and was greeted by horrid clacking. I'm guessing that I've somehow dropped a valve, between the smoke and clatter which is constant with rpm, engine shakes like 1 is missing. I've done a lot more than I ever thought I would with these trucks, hell...
  19. BrianX128

    What in gods name

    I've never really had to mess with the fuse box on my 85 F350, however my radio died and I crawled down there and saw a mess of jumper wires going various places from my previous owner. What fuses "should" be key on 12v sources? I'm wondering what sort of disaster some of these wires shoved in...
  20. BrianX128

    What did I just see?

    I'm in Ocean city md for vacation, there was a guy with a bricknose with centurion badges who had what looked like a factory front bench seat but he folded the entire seat down flat towards the back seat and it essentially made the entire cab a bed with the back part of the back seat being the...
  21. BrianX128

    Dumb question

    Why do 6.9s that were non ac have a dual vbelt pulleys on the power steering pump but 7.3s don't? I know 6.9s often would have 2 belts to spin the water pump off the crank but I've only seen 7.3s with an idler. Just seems odd. I'd love to run on board air off it but it's so much cheaper to do a...
  22. BrianX128

    Weird steering

    Randomly my 85 350 has started super odd steering. It's a ttb 50 and it drives as if both front tires are like this \_/ .. as in it started pulling to the right some but not gradual like alignment worn just randomly out of nowhere. If you let go of the wheel it doesn't get progressive worse and...
  23. BrianX128

    Rear Brake Randomly Dragging

    My 85 F350 on the way to work today right towards the end of my commute I smelled hot brakes. Got to work in the pouring rain and my rear drivers side brake must have been dragging, rim was hot but not melt your fingers hot and it was steaming from the rain. I didn't have my e-brake on overnight...
  24. BrianX128

    Cruise Control Question

    The cruise on my 90 crew cab works but has a weird problem, maybe two. For one thing, the "off" button does nothing no matter how hard you press the button. I'm not sure if the wire isn't hooked up on the button end or on where its going to and I'm not sure where that is even so any help there...
  25. BrianX128

    Slave Lake Still Lives

    I missed this after christmas, but slave lake is still alive. I couldn't breathe from laughter when he put the belt on while the truck was running.

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