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that's cool man yours works as is, it pushes down on the belt sdo the smooth pulley is perfect and works great. what size is your belt? i think it's supposed to be a 80. I wasn't sure I figured mine was wrong, but th eonly way for that would be wrong tensioner with the stud in the wrong place or hole in the bracket in the wrong place. I went by the compnine diagrams for belt routing and autozones part numbers for the belt size. with a/c is 88 and w/o a/c is 80 i think.

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i think its like a 54 ish its really small ony goes arounf crank water pump alt and power steering

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I think you might have done like me and put it around the crank wrong. I did mine that way when i rebuilt it, had a 78 or so belt with a/c and could NOt get one to fit with the tensioner pulley for the non a/c setup. I went on compnine and finally realized I had it wrong, I now can use factory sized belts that the local parts store pulls up.

http://www.compnine.com/index.php?u=...01&grouptype=B

check out the 2nd pic down on the left, that's the one you want or need to go by, but if yours works, no worries, as long as you know your belt size. Just make sure your water pump is turning the right way because it should turn reverse style for serp. setups compared to the old v belt setups that turned the same as the crank.

If you have a reverse flow pump and it's not turning the right way it can overheat, and vice versa, like if you have an ol style pump on it not reverse and you got the belt ran to make it spin in reverse etc.

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i guess it works fine it doesnt over heat any so i guess im not going to worrie about it to much but thats for the advice

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did some more work today painted the bars in the back window black again because the paint was fallin off

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and i also washed it today

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more pics

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well ive been babying my truck but i guess not enough pretty sure i spun a rod bearing i guess im just not meant to drive the truck

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Bummer mon, Rebuild?

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gonna buy used for now till i can save a build a 383

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back on the road got some 4 foot whips on it and camo z71 stickers on it pics up tomorrow

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heres some pics of the stickers and you can see the whips in one of them

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bad. ass.

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here are some pics of the old motor and all the metal shavings in the oil pan

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puttin the motor in

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some pics i took today

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more

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truck looks good but tires need cleaned big time. need to get ya some bleech white from westley's, any parts store and even wal-maret has it, works great, then tire black em.

are they wrangler rts's? I got wrangler rts's on mine.

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yeah i kno i need to get some and they're wrangler td's

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picked up some glasspacks today and put them on and they sound awsome i also got my firesticks (cb antennas) today and instaled them pics to come..... manages to finally kill my edelbrock 4 barrel and had to be towed 7 miles home by my dad and we put a quadrajet on it.

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worst thing you could have done, edelbrock stomps quadrajunk in my book anytime. very easy and cheap to rebuild an edelbrock too.

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i wish i coulda kept the edelbrok on it but it wasnt feeding my truck fuel and it was leakin it out all over my intake so i had the quadrajet in my garage till i can rebuild the edelbrock or buy a new one i personaly like the edelbrock better but gotta do what you gotta do so it runs

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go down to your local parts store or summit and order you a rebuild kit it's like $40 and super simple to do.

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picked one up today and found out the problem there is a cam in it so it was pumping to much fuel into the carb and it would flood it self out so i picked him up a electric fuel pump today and it works great

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yeah thanks dad here is some pics.

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how would a cam in it make it flood? and then electric fuel pump fix it? if it had a bigger cam in it it'd need more fuel and not flood out it would starve for fuel not flood. An electric pump isn't gonna help a flodding issue, you need an adjustable pressure reg. I hope you have one for it. A simple block mounted pump is more then enough to feed the carb, we had a nasty cam in one pure race car radical idle and block mounted pump feed it plenty.

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i was running the block mounted pump and the truck kept flooding out now i have the electric pump with pushes 7 psi constant and haven't had the problem since

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that's not right because a block pump usually puts out less then 7 psi and should not "flood out" when you got more psi now and it's fine. That just doesn't seem right at all to me.

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heres a sound clip ill get a better vid sometime soon its shorty headers 2.25 inch exhaust glasspacks and 3 inch tips

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workin on getting a 6 inch lift and some 38's hopefully by the end of the week ill have it keep you updated

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changed my door panels today trying to decide if im gonna lift it or not

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lift it! PLEASE!

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well ive already done the loud part of my user name because its straight pipes so i guess it time to lift it lol most likely going to but i gotta get a set of 35's first

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6" on 35's would look great on that truck!

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its still a toss up but on the other hand i made a home made back rack its not done yet tho

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everybody does 6 inch and 35's I'd go bigger.

How you gonna lift it or get bigger tires when you were complaining about the 33's being bald and not cheap? a lift is more then tires, and then you gotta have tires too.

Same reason mines not lifted. I can't afford tires much less the lift.

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i traded a bunch of parts for a parts truck with a 6 inch pro comp lift a 3 inch body lift and 38's the cab is junk and there was no body and i had to cut the frame.

the last pic is of the truck on my trailer after i got it home

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awesome deal man, gonna keep the body lift or sell it? or the 6 inch either one lol. I want a lift for mine big time, body lift, susp. lift or both.

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yeah in part of the deal the kid wanted a lawn mower and my buddy who had a 94 ext cab just like mine owned one so i trade the body lift and a set of manifolds for the lawn mower because i personally dont care for body lifts and he wanted it and needed a set of manifolds

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I hear ya, I don't mind body lifts at all I'd run one for sure.