Took the white '85 crew out for a good drive yesterday. The new brake system works great and the inside of my engine bay was not half covered in brake fluid when I got home.

The younger pups have not even been in the back seat of the crew for a ride yet. They are going to love having their own bench seat and windows to stick their blockheads out.

 

I think they are referring to 4x4 front springs; just what do they mean by "not parallel" ? Thanks.

 

I was recently in this guy's field and picked up a shouldered bolt that was half-buried in the ground and I thought "some day that might be just what I am looking for"

I took my Buck and picked it out of the dirt and was sort of cleaning it off before I put it in my pocket and the guy says "let me see what you have got there"

He took it and looked it over and said "it is untelling what that has fell out of"; and, much to my amazement and consternation, he then reared back and threw it way down in the woods; I still had my Buck in my hand and for a minute thought about ventilating him with it --- those kind of people are the ones that can't fix anything without making five trips to town --- and then, they come running to me when they can't find what they are looking for in town.

 

Amen to that.

Most of my cable problems have been with the plastic covering the cable wadding up way back somewhere inside the sheath.

As for pre-oiling the cables, I have had best success with hanging the full length of the cables behind the wood-stove with something under them to catch the run-off.

I put very warm - hot - STP or Lucas in one of those Harbor Freight trigger-cans and carefully squirt a wee bit in at the top every few minutes and keep doing so until it is freely dripping out the bottom.

Following this procedure has all but stopped any problems I have with the internals rusting up or water intrusion freezing things up.

It matters not where you buy the cables or what it says on the box --- look them over closely --- they are all made on the same assembly line.

Our vintage Ford and Dodge cables are the same and mostly interchangeable and have a huge weakness in being sleeved for such a long distance.

My old 1978 Chevrolet has very short sleeved cables coming out of the backing plates and EVERYTHING from that point to the pedal is exposed cable with nowhere to swell up nor seize up.

Armed with the GM hooks and eyes, it would be a simple matter to convert one of these trucks to the problem-free GM system.

 

Not sure if I am totally understanding this.

On our Dodge trucks, I have already cut the rectangular hole inside the cab, above the right floorboard, so as to clean things out of there; but, I made neat covers and screwed them over the cut out hole.

I also have the blowers on dual relays; one for Hot and one for Ground, and the relays controlled by their own toggle-switch.

Is this increase in recirculation accomplished by just leaving that hole I already made open ?

Thanks.

 

There is special pricing on those crazy expensive Dynomite Diesel injector nozzles right now. Did I need to spend the money? Probably not, I'm stupid with money sometimes. I pulled the injectors from my spare head supposedly from a '92. Cleaned them up a little put them in a ziplock "sammich" bag, followed by a 1qt freezer bag. $10.XX to USPS them to Idaho. I already have a set of these nozzles installed on some rebuilt Bosch cores. I think I paid $456 or so maybe more for the nozzles. The cores were DAP remans with 5x12's. I sold the 5x12's. Installed the DDP's in their place. I was on Youtube and saw DDP was doing installs on Bosch cores, your choice of tips. $400+$26 UPS return. Sale ends 6/30/24. I got another set of Stage III's.
https://dynomitediesel.com/products/...40781386285130 It covers 89-02.

Dodge Cummins 89-02 5.9L 12v & 24v Nozzles WITH Install

$400.00

 

Determined one or both of the danged 90*ELLs of the remote lube-oil filter lines are weeping where they screw into the lube-oil heat-exchanger cover (next to / just above the AC compressor). Making a danged mess after some hundred miles. The primary spinny-things have to move to get to the stuff. -DOH!
And, the pivot-bolt of the bottom turbo support has sheered. Gonna have to up-size it.

- Living with custom stuff can be a PITA.

 

I know some people just have to have twins and triplets.......... I will just do my mild things!

What does your air filtration set up using twins? Got to be massive!

 

Two 5"-to-6" 90*ELLs turn into a 6" Tee, that turns into the Stock-Pot cold-air intake.

Start with custom BHAF:


Put it in a true cold-air intake that can breath:


And tie it into the spinny-things:

 

THD recently started selling this. I heard about it on Facebook.

 

Not sure is the benefit of $-per Horsepower would be worth it for me. Besides his is ugly as sin. This filter is a little smaller than the THD BHAF filter. I got the sock and filter (originally for a 2nd gen) for $45 new off craigslist. The tube and elbow off Amazon after watching Decent Garage on a home pieced together BHAF. I shot clear Cerakote on the tube. It was already polished.

 

Glacier Black on the hot side supposed to go 1600* The intake is about good to 360*. I had to bake the compressor in the oven. My oven still stinks. I was expecting dark red like the elbow. I used all the red pigment.

DAP Billet HX35 Stage 1 Turbo up to 450HP 62mm Compressor with 64mm Turbine

 

And you sir, are the last of a dying breed. It may be a PITA but it's worth it in this new day of just buy it and bolt it ons (or better yet, have a shop do it...). It builds character and admiration.

I was thinking about this the other day while pondering all these new jeeps with constipated grills and other buy & bolt stuff. Hot rodding used to be a shade tree art of gleaning junk yards and borrowing parts to go fast. Same for the good ol' days of four wheeling in the late 1900s. Now days you just sit on your couch with the AC running, look through a catalog, fill your cart, charge it to your card, click send and wait a whole agonizing 24 hours for it to arrive. Then snap it on or pay a shop to do the same.

Mostly gone are the days when guys like you would have an idea, find the part to make it happen, figure out a way to make it work and then fine tune it until you prove your hypothesis or chalk it up to trial and error with new knowledge gained.

A lot, if not most, of the folks on this forum are of the same cloth. That's why I like hanging out here.

 

He's a "mad scientist" rumor is he has nitrous and twins on his chain saw..................

 

They got my cores yesterday. I got my tracking number today!