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03-30-2013, 09:49 AM | #1 |
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Re: Finally starting my Longhorn 4x4 conversion
I just found this part of the board recently and spent the last few days reading over this thread. A few thoughts:
1) Bad ass! 2) at times I'm lost (I don't know all the lingo) 3) and to quote Jase from Duck Dynasty: "the suspense is killing me!" Posted via Mobile Device Posted via Mobile Device
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Re: Finally starting my Longhorn 4x4 conversion
More suspense. Ryan is trying to let me get done first. he sidelined the longhorn for a little bit to work on some car...
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Re: Finally starting my Longhorn 4x4 conversion
Ryan I need your help.
I got the eng in my 56 all hooked up and good to go. Im having trouble with air in the system. Im using a raycor filter that has 2 inlets and one outlet. running my return line right back into the filter housing mounted on my firewall. Juist have one line from my tank into this filter . this sound ok to you? what does dodge do with there Returnline ? Does it need any kind of a restriction ? or maby 1 way check valve ? Any help would be appreciated.
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03-31-2013, 12:56 PM | #5 |
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Re: Finally starting my Longhorn 4x4 conversion
Yep endles air was my problem. I got it running thismorn. Was cranky but Im going now. I have ditched the return to the filter and just have the return going into a bucket at the moment . Jusy thinking how I want to tap another line into my tank.
Thanks chevotia. You have a thread for your truck ? Sounds nice !
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doesnt the tank have a ventline in the top of the filleropening ? you might be able to put the returnline in there and use a tiny hole in the gascap for a vent another option would be to brace an extra tube intoo the fuelsender , you can remove that away from the tank and the diesel in it
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03-31-2013, 01:16 PM | #8 |
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Re: Finally starting my Longhorn 4x4 conversion
on my jeep i plumbed the return into the filler neck.
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04-02-2013, 01:17 PM | #9 |
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Keep in mind, for a diesel, you don't want the return line just dumping into the top of the tank, you want to run a hose down into the existing fuel to avoid aeration.
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04-02-2013, 03:32 PM | #10 |
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Unless you have a good fuel system that traps and removes the entrained air in the fuel as sloshing entrains oxygen/air in the fuel so either way the oxygen/air is in the fuel.
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I've had it this exact way on my 95 F-350 for 2 1/2 years with no problem. It runs down a tube and into the tank from the very top. Factory ford engineered tank too.
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04-10-2013, 01:49 AM | #12 |
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So do you Ryans end up with the tops of the GN hitches about 1" above the tops of the frames? I did a quick measurement on Old Mustard tonight and it looks like it would need to be 1" to be flush with the top of the bed floor. Just wanted to see if that's what you guys used, too. Looks like right around 1" from your pics. Mine's going in a wood bed C20.
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03-31-2013, 02:28 PM | #13 |
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Re: Finally starting my Longhorn 4x4 conversion
Hey...
Your working on some car?..... I can't wait much longer for you to finish this truck......so i can borrow it and tow one of my slammers with it.....lol. You might have convinced me to revisit my CC big block dually after all.
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Hey Ryan . What trans mount have you been using on your swaps. Im at that stage now . Not too sur if I want to use the 93 dodge style mount on mine or not .
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Re: Finally starting my Longhorn 4x4 conversion
Check out ryanroo's mount, that's what I would do.
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Re: Finally starting my Longhorn 4x4 conversion
I agree. A couple people I know did this and it did not end well for either of them. Now, that being said, they were not street-only vehicles, but I used their R&D to decide I wasn't going to copy them.
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there might be some leaking happening with the return so high up in the tank and the lack of a breatinghole might put the tank under vacuum as the diesel gets used , the second idea about the return intoo the fuelsender might be a better idea
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I had Ryan measure his for me and he said 3/4". That is the distance from the short bed supports to the frame on steel bed trucks. I measured a half ton steel bed truck I have here and the floor is 1", and the support does hang down 1/4". Hope this helps.
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the hat channels that run under the steel floor on both the beds i measured were 3/4" and the bed floor ribs are ~1/4" so from the top of the floor ribs to the frame is about 1 inch. for me to make the hitch work, so the top of the plate was at the bottom of the floor ribs it was spaced up 3/4" and the center circle where the ball is is set up the 1/4" so it sits even with the top of the ribs. since the wood on a wood bed is sitting on the frame, you will have to cut several of the boards in half at the hitch and you will be able to see the entire hitch plate.
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Cool. Thanks. Yeah, I figured I'd have to support the boards where they need to be cut for the hitch.
Thanks again. I'm done pirating the thread now.
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Nick, it isn't an issue.
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I doubt I could afford the air in the tires on that beast!
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Yours and Ryan's goose neck builds could handle the stress I am sure.
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