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    I think I'm in for a nightmare, broken exhaust bolt, rearmost driver's side in an '86 e350

    I know the standard is drill, easy out, and bolt end comes out. For me it's never worked and I've always had to pull the head after hours of cursing and sweat. And being in a van body, I'm not even sure if I can fit a drill in there if I tried. hate the idea of pulling a head, for the same...
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    One more hard start after sitting, but this one's different

    It's progressively getting worse. 7.3 in a 89 F250. Bought it with hard starting problem, that wasn't that bad but suddenly a week ago a lot worse, even though I've been trying to fix the problem. It had 2 bad glow plugs screwing up the controller, so I thought that would be it, but nope...
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    Weird brake problem 89 F250

    The parking brake is extremely simple, but it's got me scratching my head. I originally had a problem with the front brake cable hanging up and not releasing the rear brakes completely, like staying perhaps 10% engaged. I tried adjusting it and fiddling with the main return spring but it would...
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    Smoking

    While driving my 6.9 E350 motorhome through the mountains, I noticed that flooring it on steep hills creates a continuous belching of black smoke as long as the pedal is fully depressed. If it was a turbo model I'd suspect a fault in the turbo creating not enough air pressure but since this is...
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    idiot light or gauge, which to believe?

    I'm in the middle of taking my E350 motorhome on her inaugural trip into the BC interior. We did a fair bit of climbing today with the longest, steepest section several kilometers long, outside temps about 28 C. During this climb the temp gauge, which usually sits at about 1/4 to 1/3 deflection...
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    Anything special about the 12 point bolts for the timing gear?

    I worked too long and too late today and ended screwing up. Replaced the injection pump and got everything together, lines bled and finally got it started. Ran great but started making intermittent ticking noise. then a loud clacking. Shut it off right away, and immediately knew my mistake. I...
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    6.9 motorhome giving new grief

    A few weeks ago I got help getting my project motorhome going (thanks again). We took it camping a few days ago and drove it about 160Km (75 miles) and it ran pretty good except the common and annoying issue of occasionally stalling after dropping the throttle too quickly. I adjusted the idle up...
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    And yet another no start 6.9 thread...

    Hey all, I've done a lot of reading on the subject but I think my lack of experience with this rig is showing. Ive worked on a lot of 4 cylinder diesels but not a V8. Background is that I bought a nice '86 project motorhome cheap, primarily because it had a rare diesel engine. It was a...

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