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Re: Restoring Rusty
can anyone recommend what lubricant to use in my manual steering box, I have seen everything from CV joints grease to gear oil to a mix of the two recommended
I am really tempted to just use this multi purpose brown grease I have been storing for over 30 years, ha ha gotta find some use for it |
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Re: Restoring Rusty
Factory uses heavy oil. If you don't ever see freezing temperatures you 'might' get away with grease.
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Re: Restoring Rusty
I totally agree that's why I was surprised to see the spool gun as an option for this little bugger, and I even asked the sales guys how does the aluminum welding work with this machine and yes I know sales guys but they said funny that I should ask cause a guy just bought the spool gun for this machine recently and came back for some materials and told them it works great, but we shall see if when I get there
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so sent my old / bad oil pressure gauge back to Summit and they sent me a replacement for FREE
More Better News: the new gauge works! Last edited by Gregski; 07-28-2016 at 12:17 AM. |
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I waited a long time to get this, so I am super excited
The INNOVATE Wideband "dual" (pronunced for a Chebby, ha ha) Fuel Air Ratio meter gauge kit comes with two oxygen sensors so if you got a V8 or a dual exhaust setup I should say you install one of these in each exhaust pipe and you can see how both banks are doing DLG-1: Dual Lambda (Air/Fuel Ratio) Gauge (Includes: LSU 4.9 sensors) found it on eBay for only $320 bones, what a deal I may dedicate a separate thread to this tuning, diagnosing and data logging system as I hope to get pretty involved in it Note: I will be adding their digital Vacuum gauge (includes RPM gauge) ASAP as well, that should be enuff to get me started tuning properly Last edited by Gregski; 07-28-2016 at 12:03 AM. |
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Glad it's working for you. Summit is usually pretty good about returns. They let me exchange parts I had for over a year when my car project plans changed. |
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Cool beans on the gauges
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Wideband... The most expensive use once or twice tool before it gets put away.
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I have been thinking about getting a wideband guage. I'll be watching to see how it works for you.
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Manual steering is fine, but not a fan of the manual brakes swap. Pedal is to high for my liking and feels dead, stops just fine though. But will stay for now
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Negative Ghost Rider, the gauge will be permanently mounted in the dash, no different than Oil pressure or Water Temp, just taking the game to the next level that's all, I will see how things change in the Winter and adjust accordingly, when I go camping in the mountains I will see how elevation plays a part, very cool stuff up ahead
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Injury Report: Well had to try the new MIG welder without my welding gloves and with just some cheap ol' construction gloves from Home Depot and a spark burned my fore arm just passed the short gloves and made its way through the end of the denim Levis jack sleeve and through a long sleeve T shirt, I felt it but kept welding, cause I'm a man, that's why... had I stopped and screamed like a baby maybe I would have shook it off before it toasted my precious skin, ha ha
yeah, been to Harbor Freight and picked up their leather apron and long welder gloves kit, (sucks buying things over again that you had before but sold on Craigslist cause you is a PinHead) ha ha Last edited by Gregski; 07-29-2016 at 02:38 AM. |
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(Nice little burn/re-education reminder for one spark !! If it landed in your ear - you'd have been much quicker)
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A perfect A/F ratio means everything is dialed in and unless you may a weird change it should stay that way or relatively close for a long time. |
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Greg excellent work man! Shout out from the Deep South!! Read the thread and will use your work as a reference for my own project . I have a couple questions for you about the different paint products you used throughout your build. I'm maintaining interested in the interior and the exterior trim. Any info is good. Thanks!
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our carburated trucks don't have no computer so they don't adjust much as we drive them, they don't know weather its 50° F when we start them to drive to work or a 105° F they don't know if we is towin' or haulin or are alone in the truck or with 2 of our fat buddies so our trucks do need constant adjustments, I think you are focusing on the Idle circuit too much, I am thinking of the entire big picture, WOT - Wide Open Throttle, Part Throttle, cruising, but we'll get to all that, stay [ahem] tuned and I have started a separate thread for all this to get even more geekier with it for those of you who want to follow along INNOVATE DLG1 Wideband O2 Oxygen Sensor Tuning Diagnostics Logging Air Fuel Ratio etc |
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Re: Restoring Rusty
well it was time to put on some big boy pants and weld up my exhaust cause you know what those there U joint clamps aint leak tight, I don't care how tight you turn them
that there bulge is a resonator in an attempt to take the drone out, I get a drone sound around 1000 RPM passenger side Last edited by Gregski; 07-30-2016 at 08:45 PM. |
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here is a stare and compare of the still clamped up driver side and the newly welded up passenger side
Note I had the resonator right up against the muffler, not my proudest moment there but we hammered in the intermediate pipes so hard into the header extensions that at the time I did not want to take the whole thing apart in hopes of getting them separated, but when the time came to weld things up I used some BP Blaster and my 3 lbs sledge to somehow get them apart |
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and both sides done and ready to go back on the truck
I really hope moving these resonators / baffles what ever you wanna call them further up and away from the mufflers will have some impact on the drone sound |
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Mandatory Injury Report - MJR
honestly I have no idea how I sliced my hand there, probobly removing that exhaust and on those pesky U joints, they drew blood one last final time |
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This is a true statement. I have one myself.
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If you do t want drone scrap those junk ass blowmasters.
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