Isn't that a good feeling

 

Yes it is. I can't wait to get it on the highway to see how the old thing feels, now that practically everything under the front is new.

 

Hillbilly, who has the best price on that Redhead? Just want to note down who to call, should the time arise and I need a new PS unit

 

I am gathering parts to do pretty much the same thing. the only difference is when I last Drove mine it was 2wheel drive.

 

I ordered mine direct from Redhead $315 for the box, $150 core, (will get that back when they get my old box) round trip shipping to get it and to send the core back to south east Colorado was $68. I had to call because it wasn't on the website. Part number 2856SNI. I called them the morning of 1/6 and the gear was sitting at the post office for me to pick up yesterday morning 1/9. Very impressive shipping from WA to CO.



2wheel drive or 4 does it really matter, as long as you can drive it? mines been in the shop for so long that it's blocked in by two freightliners and two kenworths, I only thought I was going to drive it today.

 

Always somthing

 

Well i filled up for the 1st time today since injector swap. Mix of highway driving around 70mph, quite a bit of city and several play runs (hard launches and wot till speedo pegged out and then some). Still got 18.5mpg. Very nice i think. I'm going to run a tank strictly highway and easy shifts. Hopefully I'll break my previous mpgs. Still having alot of idle haze and have to be pretty easy on the throttle shifting to keep the smoke down. Either I've got my pump all wrong or i can't have my cake and eat it to. FWIW i run Stanadyne Performance Blend and Stanadyne Lubricity Formula at every full up.

 

Thanks, Hillbilly on the Redhead info. So far I've heard nothing but good on those units

 

In regards to this red head steering and I've also read some posts about a steering stabilize, is this more of a 4x4 upgrade or will i benifit much on a 2wd. My steering is nice and right but i have alot of body roll (in sure we all do). Just curious if this stabilizer will help much?

 

Was messin around with NV4500 shift tower and shift tower dust boots today....

https://www.dieseltruckresource.com/...3/#post3294059

 

You're welcome, I as well have heard they are supposedly the best, I sure hope they are.


If your steering is tight, and the truck doesn't wander, I don't think a steering stabilizer would do anything. Do you still have the sway bar under the front? They help more for body roll than a steering stabilizer.

 

Yes, factory sway bar is still in tact

 

Might check your bushings. I'm not aware of anything other than the sway bar to help with body roll. But then again I haven't looked for anything.

 

stiffer springs, better shocks, bigger sway bar. you're driving a 6000 lb brick that not a single engineer who designed it was worried about body roll.

 

Exactly, There is lots of room for improvement.