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  1. Jesus Freak

    Burning up fuel shut off solenoids.

    Yesterday I got off work and while my truck was warming up, it suddenly died! I told about it in the "so what did you do with your truck today" thread yesterday. Anyway I figured out the fuel shut off was fried, wedged a screw in there to hold it open and drove it home. I have several extra...
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    Knight of the Phoenix

    A couple weeks ago I went and bought another Firebird for my wife (really it's for her, I can't fit in it. I don't know how Hasslehoff did it except he got paid $1500 a day). It's a 91 GTA and it will be her new KITT. Of course I didn't get a running car but it was supposed to be in better shape...
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    This Merc ain't FROZEN!!!

    My 21yr old daughter has a really sweet 88 cougar that we bought her as a graduation present almost 4yrs ago now. The original owner took meticulous care of this machine and hopped it up just enough.......if you know what I mean. Not a drag car, but if you want to feel a old school foxy ford...
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    Hey, it's another air intrusion thread! Just for fun though.

    So, I really don't have a air intrusion problem, but in reality we all do because we use mechanically injected diesel trucks for our daily drivers. I fix riding lawn mowers, mostly craftsman/Husqvarna/poulan mowers because in just a fan of those. Most of them use a gravity feed for fuel which...
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    Eccentric issues.

    My dually was having some kind of air intrusion issue, I could see more air in my sight glass than usual and I could see the bubbles ever so slightly. It also appeared as though I was having a bleed back thing going on as well. So I swapped out my mechanical fuel pump with another one I had...
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    My wife's bronco died!

    So, all cupholder comments aside, yesterday my wife calls me from the feed store saying the bronco won't crank up. Spins, but no start. My daughter rescued her and I had to tow the bronco to the house when I got home late last night. This is an 86 5.0 EFI. I've been messing with it all morning...
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    Running without a fan or shroud?

    I was digging around on the forum for something the other day and ran across a post where I believe it was @Thewespaul said he runs without a fan and shroud. And apparently in Texas heat. I'm was curious if that's legit, or is he a "wild man"?
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    Old granny gear swap..... maybe?

    Okay, so in the absence of @PossumTruck , I was getting oil at a local shop and they work on a bunch of old Fords and I asked the owner about a PTO knowing he didn't have anything. Well a kid there says he has a 70s granny gear tranny with a PTO. So my question is this: will the dinosaur 4 speed...
  9. Jesus Freak

    Where's Possum Truck?!!

    So, I was googling trying to find a PTO for my T19 and I finally googled it juussssst right and a post on "Ford Truck Enthusiast" came up and a little over a year ago a guy going by the name of "possum truck" posted that he had a PTO off of a T19 for sale on their marketplace. Well, I says to...
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    WTB T19 PTO! Help!

    Does anyone have a PTO for a T19? If so shoot me a PM. If by chance your converting to a ZF5 I'll trade you. I went from a ZF5 to a T19 and the PTO gear doesn't interchange. I'd be glad to buy what got if it's what I need. Thank you.
  11. Jesus Freak

    Headlight switch weirdness!

    I rarely ever drive after dark, but the other day I had to meet a guy at 5pm to pick up some mowers. I was sitting in his driveway in my tow truck waiting for him to get home and I figured I'd turn my headlights off and just have my running lights on. Well when I turned the headlights off...
  12. Jesus Freak

    WTB .030 over pistons for a 6.9!

    The thread title says it all. I need at least 2 good .030 over pistons for a 6.9 Navistar International IDI. I really don't want to bore this block to .040 if I don't have to. Help me Obi wan Kenobi, you're my only hope! If you got 8 you want to sell and you don't want to split them up, I'll...
  13. Jesus Freak

    My options, and your opinions.

    Well, pulled the heads off my turbo 7.3 and I got 7 burned pistons. Cylinder walls look fine no gouges or scoring. So here's my deal, I got two 7.3s and a 6.9 and I need an engine on a budget, so I'll discribe my ideas and y'all please chime in with your opinion. Ultimately Im trying to get a...
  14. Jesus Freak

    Steering gear seal.

    So I hopped in my truck this afternoon excited to go home and start my weekend, Tues-thurs are my off days, after my truck was sufficiently warm and ready to go I went to drive off and BAM no power steering. I "man-steered" it to the house, long story short, the seal is gone and it won't hold...
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    Jesus Freak's WMO IP thread

    So this is for the "Nay sayers" and the uninitiated curious folks like me. But I pulled apart the IP that "went bad" on my dually several months ago after haven drank WMO for 6 or 7 months. This was probably the original IP off the TIDI, so it wasn't WMO that killed it, it was age and WMO may...
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    T19 and transfer case for sale

    I got this for my IDI bronco idea, but if and when I do that it'll be 2wd. My junkyard friend got this with a bunch of other stuff and knew that I was the only person who would want a 4wd tranny for a diesel so I don't have a actual history on it. The transfer case clicks in gear and spins...
  17. Jesus Freak

    Curious windshield issue.

    So, it rains in NW Florida during the summer about everyday. Thus before I started driving the tow truck I put new wiper blades on. And guess what? It rained today on my way home, no problem, but the wiper blade wouldn't wipe the windshield right in front of me. The passenger side was wiping...
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    Jesus Freak's WMO tow truck

    Well here it is. I'm going to discribe my fuel set up and as time and life progresses I'll share more, if y'all have any comments or questions bring em on. So back in March I got this thing, '87, 6.9, ZF5, 4:10(supposed to be, it was really cruising different than my dually on the test run) and...
  19. Jesus Freak

    Stock aluminum dually wheels.

    I thought this might be a neat subject, almost added it to my "IDI pariphnalia" thread but decided to go fresh. My 86 F350 dually didn't start life as a dually, it was modified by Centurion Lehman. But when I bought several years ago it came equiped with these rims(2 pictures of wheels without...
  20. Jesus Freak

    $70 motorcraft starter?

    So, before I drive off on the tow truck there's a couple things that I want new before I just "trust" them, like a new mechanical fuel pump and the rest of the fuel system except the IP. The other thing is the starter and probably batteries. I have a direct drive starter that came from...
  21. Jesus Freak

    My answer to "shower heads"

    So eventually I'll start a thread for my tow truck but I wanted to show case this since I was working on my fuel cells right now. I asked about "shower heads" a while back and got a mixed review of replacing them so I decided to go with an idea I had for my dually when I put a bronco tank on it...
  22. Jesus Freak

    Name that TURBO!!!

    So, I bought my 86 CC several years ago for a song! The reason I got such a great truck for cheap was because the motor was probably toast...... probably.......but I'm crazy. The story was the previous-previous owner shut the motor off immediately when the turbo disentigrated.......so said the...
  23. Jesus Freak

    IDI pariphinalia?

    So a couple years ago, I bought an 85 flatbed to part out and get some stuff I wanted. But in that truck was all the owner stuff for that 1985 IDI truck as well as all the stuff from the 1983 IDI truck he traded in to get the 85. So I figured a couple of y'all that are restoring a truck or...
  24. Jesus Freak

    Bad turbo seals?

    So, I got to thinking maybe my oil consumption is my turbo. It's a factory Garrett turbo, nothing spectacular. Is there an obvious way to see if it's leaking oil?
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    Jesus Freaks WMO thread!

    So, as I've mentioned in other threads, my wmo is unscientific and primitive. Some will cry when they read this, others will scoff, some will stare off into blank space and become distracted, but a couple might just have the light come on while the "A-team" theme song starts rolling in the...

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