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I changed my differential lube to 80w/90 and added the posi additive last night, gonna take it out tonight and see where I am with the noise in my rear end.
I inspected the carrier/ring and pinion, no unusual wear/damage to speak of.gear teeth were clean, and the gear wear pattern looked exactly as it did the day I rebuilt it. The oil was pretty clear with no metal or debris in it. ![]() so, cleaned her up, new gasket and replaced the gear oil and added the posi additive. Have a Great Day!!! Ben ![]() Posted via Mobile Device
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Re: What did you do to your truck today? Chapter II
Let me start by saying I'm not a gear head. So I did a little snooping to see why you would want to put a Ford solinoid on. From what I can tell that only helps if you are having "hot start" issues. I'm not having an issue with hot starts, I had a problem with loose wiring. I do have a 5.7ltr that I have to do a little work to and I am going to be upgrading to a fuel injection system and upgrading the starter and multiple other items. Any suggestions would be much appreciated.
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Re: What did you do to your truck today? Chapter II
it also pulls all the wires at a point where you could access them.Only one fat wire to the starter.You could bump the motor with a screwdriver.And yes it primarily used for hot start problems.I had that problem with my Big block with headers.
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Re: What did you do to your truck today? Chapter II
Long day! Borrowed dad's truck, drove 70 miles, bought a set of NOS front inner fenders from a board member.
Drove another 25 miles, left those with the media blaster for cleaning and epoxy priming. Came back. All day adventure but worth it. |
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Re: What did you do to your truck today? Chapter II
Kilrcady, thanks, probably won't do that to the 305 in it, but will definitely look at it fir the 5.7ltr
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Re: What did you do to your truck today? Chapter II
Modified up a nifty little bracket to keep the new a/c lines away from the alternator pulley and buttoned up installation of my CPP front sway bar. I've just taken it for a short ride to work and it feels real good around corners and even feels better over bumps and railroad tracks. Drivers side mounting bracket needs a little tweaking to get the a arm connector more upright and I didn't use the one inch spacers so it wouldn't interfere with the steering components and keep the bar level with the truck/ground.
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Re: What did you do to your truck today? Chapter II
Finally went to the local wrecker and got a 1 1/4 inch front sway bar for my Highlander. I already have new from ECE polyurethane bushings with brackets for lowered ( my truck is not lowered ) trucks that will be installed with this sway bar. The Highlander came with the factory front sway bar but I believe those are 7/8th's of an inch thick.
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Replaced the broken hood hinge for $10.
Looked in a local classified and found a guy giving away a 1968 GMC 2500 Custom Camper so I took a look. If only I had more room or some parking space I would have snagged it or at least gotten the doors or the Dana 60 etc.
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Re: What did you do to your truck today? Chapter II
sand blasted the trailing arms, rear drums and rad fan to brand new condition. Painted them all right after and are back in the truck now. Can't believe how quickly this stand blasting works. All done in 15 minutes for $40.
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I tell you what, the ability to sandblast would be one heck of an advantage! You'd just have to have a lot of space to do it because I've read it goes everywhere for hundreds of yards.
Are you going to paint, epoxy prime, or powder coat those tailing arms? My radiator came in from Rock Auto, 2 days in advance! I have to go look at it though as I shipped it to my parents' house. I'm too fearful of the drug heads to allow anything to be left at my house and me not home. |
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Re: What did you do to your truck today? Chapter II
Apparently late 80's and early 90's IROC Camaros and or Firebirds have a rear sway bar that can be adapted to ours trucks pretty easy. Do a search on this site and I'm sure you will find a thread or two on the subject. Hellwig makes a nice bolt on sway bar for our truck and its around 200.00
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Is that place in the SE? I used to use a place over there years ago, wasn't sure if it was still there. real convenient and yes cheap.
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Re: What did you do to your truck today? Chapter II
Thanks man. My trailing arms look a bit rough (everything on my truck does) so I might do this same thing at some point.
Yesterday I test fitted my 3 radiators and removed all the outside bolts on the driver's side inner fender. Only one clip broke, one of the bolts I was actually able to spray with some break free (irony?). I was able to get the bolt out with the use of vise grips and my ratchet. Fortunately the one that broke was reachable with the vise grips. I took my original radiator over to the rad. shop and found out it was worse than I figured, it needs recored. I also dropped the bolts into Evaporust soak. |
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Re: What did you do to your truck today? Chapter II
I got a lot done today! I removed my driver's side inner fender, with only one snapped retaining clip and one broken free tacked-on nut. Vise grips really come in handy! I also went ahead and removed my driver's side outer fender.
I want to get the outer fender painted and replace the inner with the NOS one I bought. I have all my hardware from those in Evaporust. I also cleaned up my locking gas cap and carb filter inlet bolt thingie I got from a member. |
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I wished I was driving it ~ I'm in Kingman , Az. , on my way to N.M. .
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NOT ' rubbing it in ' ! you're giving us encouragement to keep going , one baby step at a time.....
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I'm just happy for you sir!
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Re: What did you do to your truck today? Chapter II
Rewired the rear lights of my 69 GMC 1500, just need to hook it all up at the firewall in the morning!
Also spent a good few hours cleaning out 30 years of prairie dirt from under the truck! Still need to take it to a pressure washer to get the surface stuff off, you would not believe just how much dirt and mud was under that truck. |
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