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  1. lotzagoodstuff

    Looking for dually conversion adapters

    Full floater dually Sterlings are plentiful and reasonably priced. If you are feeling saucy, put the E350 disk brakes on it before you install it in your truck.
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    Cat 3126 motorhome......IT'S ALIVE!!!!

    For instance, the old 6637 looks pretty familiar….
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    Cat 3126 motorhome......IT'S ALIVE!!!!

    Just for fun, if you stilll have the old housing, see if you can get one end off and see if that’s just a round Donaldson filter inside a fancy metal housing. Maybe you pop a couple spot welds and see a regular $40 Donaldson looking air filter and you get to change it six times for the same...
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    7.3 IDI Turbo Starter Issue

    I’m betting you have one wire on the wrong side of your fender mounted relay. Go get a wiring diagram and triple check everything, chasing every wire back to where it’s supposed to be going. Lastly, I’m guessing you are in Clark County Washington as I think that’s the only place Cost Less...
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    E450 Brake Upgrade for 2WD OBS Trucks

    Thanks for pointing out my IDi assumption was wrong. I forgot about the older “wedge” style calipers: nice catch!
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    Happy Memorial Day

    Happy Memorial Day Oilburners. Enjoy your Monday regardless of how you spend it, and keep the past and present military service in mind.
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    E450 Brake Upgrade for 2WD OBS Trucks

    I don't need new front brakes yet, but apparently the 2008 and up E450 rotors are larger/heavier and perhaps more important, have two piston calipers. Sounds like it's a pretty easy all OEM parts bolt on, and all of it fits under the same 16" factory wheels. I'm assuming this would be a bolt...
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    Another questionable purchase

    You sure the VGT blades are moving? Just saying, they are pretty notorious for sticking.
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    Another questionable purchase

    Congrats: Sounds like you caught the Muskie-truck. Pump all the fuel out and run it in an old tractor or bulldozer. Good batteries are a must in 6.0s, as is a high output alternator. You should be able to catch up the fluids and filters services. Adding a coolant filter and some stiction...
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    Another questionable purchase

    Measure the oil versus coolant temp difference. If it hasn’t been tuned, and the head bolts are original, the delta in oil versus coolant temp should tell you quite a bit about the engines overall health. I’m a big fan of a stock but monitored 6.0, there just aren’t a lot of those left...
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    Two Fords for sale

    Hey Brandon. It has been a little while, sorry to hear about your situation. Those are nice looking rigs, priced very fairly for two trucks too. Best luck in downsizing/realigning/pivoting with the curve balls life is throwing at you right now.
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    So what did you do with your truck today?

    It’s a sad day but nowadays if I’m going to make a trip to look at something, I’m asking for a pic of the title and a corresponding vin, in the same pic. If they want to cover a name or address that’s fine, but if you can’t find it and confirm you have a straight title beforehand, it’s an open...
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    sticking valve

    You could also use an infrared heat gun to see if one cylinder is colder as it warms up.
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    sticking valve

    If it’s blowing out the intake, I’m betting it’s not a sticky intake valve, but you could pull the valve covers and see if you can see anything “out if the ordinary”. I’ve caught two gassers with broken intake valve springs in time before they dropped into the cylinder.
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    Stp 15w40

    Interesting, since Rotella is usually the brand that gets the most consumption in IDIs. You could try running Delo for one oil change, I bet you have less consumption than either one.
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    If you wanted to rebuild a 7.3 idi, increase it's performance w/o a turbo, what would you do?

    Run a compression/leak down test and see how healthy your engine is. You might find that all you need is cylinder heads rebuilt. The bottom ends of these engines are pretty stout, and you’ll get to look at the cylinder bores when you pull the heads off if you are really worried about it. I feel...
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    ZF5 Gasser to Diesel Conversion

    I was involved in “realigning” a gasser bell housing many years ago, your caution and exactness is time well spent. I had to resort to offset dowel pins, and extracting the old ones was not that much fun. Good work and great documentation for the next guy who performs this conversion.
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    E350 7.3 idi engine replacement

    Super nice build you have in process. If you are going to go with an electric pump, you should consider doing the filtration/water separation at the pump as it should be better filtration and probably be in an easier spot to service. While the thought of working on a van makes my knuckles and...
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    Sloppy shifter arm solved: loose bracket bolts

    If I remember right, the bricknose trucks have the old shifter rod style actuation as opposed to the cable on the OBS trucks.
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    Sloppy shifter arm solved: loose bracket bolts

    Good call. I am a big fan of thread locker, but I'm always apprehensive about using it somewhere that's hard to get to if I ever had to pull it out again. When I was loosening the torx bolts that hold the clamps for the shifter rod bushings, it was such a tight fit I was using a 1/4" wrench...
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    Sloppy shifter arm solved: loose bracket bolts

    If it was me, I'd buy the bushing kit as they do wear out, they are cheap, and it's really not that much to drop the column down (link attached), and if you get into it you will most likely want to fix the bushings while you are in there. I can't speak to the 1999-2003 Super Duty stuff, but...
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    Sloppy shifter arm solved: loose bracket bolts

    So the bushings you think you are going to replace are the two where the green arrows are pointing, but the bracket on the end with the little stud on the end opposite the column shifter handle that's attached with the two torx bolts labeled with the yellow arrows are the ones that were loosened...
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    Sloppy shifter arm solved: loose bracket bolts

    I had assumed that the bushings in my column were shot as my shifter was getting sloppier. I pulled it all apart and found that it was actually the two torx bolts that hold the bracket that the cable mounts on. One of the bolts was very loose, which was causing the bracket to really move...
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    So what did you do with your truck today?

    318 from those years is pretty easy to find/fix/replace/etc. That's a nice score.
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    Non-genuine parts

    This is pretty disturbing. If you've ever had the misfortune of chasing an ignition issue, or even just fouling plugs (in my not so humble experience Champions have no place in anything but a Briggs & Stratton lawn mower), having a one in three chance of getting knock offs is pretty insane...

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