Thanks to this
https://www.dieseltruckresource.com/...c-t302627.html
it's wired and working but I need to actually mount it tomorrow. I'll post some pictures when I'm finished. The "universal mounts" may need some tweaking.
The blue tooth hooks right into my iPhone, New speakers sound great, that thing has more gadgets than a swiss army knife.
Dave

 

Lets use know how that radio works out. I have a kenwood that's getting on my nerves with protect errors. I have been looking at that radio.

 

I played wrestle the Dana 60 front differential. I was doing some clean up on it. It won one round but I won the other three. I found that the outers need to be rebuilt to I think it will be easier to do with it mounted on the truck.

 

Flatbed sitting on truck, making mounts. I will paint after I lift the flatbed off when the mounts are done. Put new deep pan on trans and new intermediate band super hold servo and reverse servo. Bands readjusted. This truck is Awesome.
Mike

 

Did you ever have something about these trucks that drove you just nuts ?


Besides everything except the engine???


For about a year now, I've had this horrible banging noise in the rear sector of the truck. I thought it was my overload springs that I cut off, but that "slapping" noise was still there under certain conditions... such as rough roads, or "whoop-deee-dooo's " in the road. Horrible metal to metal bang that I, for the life of me, just couldn't find...

Until today....

Filled the truck up with cardboard to take to the recycling center, and when I backed up to the 40 yard dumpster, I sat the trailer draw bar right up against it. I wasn't trying to do this, but it just so happened. Well, by getting my fat butt up into the bed, it moved the rear suspension up and down,and because the draw bar and ball were touching the dumpster, it made that dag nabbit noise that has been driving me bananas for what seems a lifetime. All those days of lying on my back in the cold weather trying to find that darn clunking noise. I thought it was my rear spring bushings had failed, and the metallic noise was the bolt hitting the bushing housing... Nope.


The draw bar was moving up and down in the receiver tube.

Pulled the draw bar out, and the noise is completely gone.


I feel like such a dingbat....

 

T-Man...that is probably one of the best results you could have asked for though....better that then some major component failing.

 

Mine makes some awful noises But the parts that are guilty will soon reside in the scrap pile.(insert evil laugh)

 

Put on a new lift pump yesterday, did an oil change the other day and it seemed to have too much oil in it, almost overflowed the drain pan.
lift pump was original, time for a change anyway.

 

When was your IP rebuilt...or a new front seal installed? Pull the oil fill tube off the timing case and look inside with a small light, and/or mirror. You could be loosing fluid from the front seal on the IP as well.

 

True...


although lying on my back, pushing parts with my boots as hard as I could, trying to get the frame to move around, spare tire, rear shocks, exhaust, etc....

I feel like a nimrod...... although one with a much quieter truck...

 

I have been to nimrod Oregon. there is a sign that says welcome to Nimrod just be glad it was an easy fix.

 

Today I looked at my truck and dreamed...
Yesterday I ordered a new RhinoPac clutch master and slave assembly for it.
Last weekend my cousin and I removed the Getrag with broken main shaft and installed a brand new NV4500! I more than doubled the value of my truck just by doing that

 

Today is our 30 some mile round trip to the grocery store. Not that we don't have stores here but it is cheaper to go the 15 extra miles.

 

Geez,
where do you guys live?
I am within 5 minuets of any parts store I could ever need,
but 45 minuets to my nearest Cummins Cal Pacific.
30 miles to the beach. (pacific ocean)

30 miles to Los Angeles,

30 miles to the mountains,

30 miles to the desert.

But I know you do not have 1/90 the crime we have.

Jim

 

I have a 30+ mile round trip to go to the grocery, parts store, or the P.O box