Dieselfuture

I almost bought Duratracks when I was looking for tires because of all the reviews, but settled on toyos as they were pretty aggressive too and people claim they were quiet on Hwy which is true. I still like all terrains because I do get off road once in awhile, not as much as I want to. Last time I went to get firewood I was dragging 2 to 3 logs out of a ditch with my truck, and they were not small logs either, about 20 24 inch in diameter at the trunk and about 30 40 feet long. I wish I took a video that day that was awesome. It was almost like a tractor pull only op hill. I used 4 low second and third gear. But that was on Grapplers before I got rid of them, and I thought they did pretty well all the way around. I did took small chunks out of them that day spinning tires. Some days you just gotta have fun.

I think we all went through most of that and some, don't feel bad in the end you get something you know and hopefully cam rely on.

Yeah them duratracks do look like a good snow/mud tire

Yeah I liked the Toyo's extreme tire that starts in 285/75/17 but decided to go with 285/70/17 but I don't know if it would make a huge difference between the two, going from 265 to ether size would thought.

Wow, I was sweating today in iowa working on few things in garage. It is getting a little cooler. Today was almost 80 but tomorrow calling for high of 72.

To make it simple every truck I've seen jacked up had front end issues and wore parts out like no tomorrow. I've done it myself and in the end it was 2.5 ton axles with a drop tcase, then it seemed to last, but I still manged to snap axles so had to upgrade to chrome moly, not cheap. Fun though. That's how I ended up getting my 2nd gen is I got tired of big heavy parts and no place to play, so now I still have something to tinker with and more reliable and useful.

Looks almost like mine minus rust holes lol. When I got my truck it had grapplers on and they did pretty good, when I got same rims you got I put on toyo open country and not to impressed, already got cracks between tread like dry rot. Got on it in the rain going about 45mph hit about 20 ish psi and started to drifting like in a race car, it was fun but I thought they would bite better than that, and it was on concrete not on asphalt. Next set will be ether grapples again (no e rated though ) or something cheaper like Hercules. Are you getting snow already?

May also want to check steering column where it comes out of fire wall, there is a spring loaded bearing that apperantly on some trucks fails prematurely. It's not easy to get to but if you can grab a hold of it and move it side to side that bearing is going, that spring supposed to put tension on bearing but with time it loses tention. Worth a look and yeah the other thing is gear box tie rods ball joins, basically make sure front end is tite. If it I'd that bearing there is a bushing available that replaces spring and bearing, just did it on my truck.

Still waiting on @Mopar1973Man new mpg tune so I can still it and see what it does,

Sorry for your loss, and good to hear that you sold the truck and told new owner about it, it sucks buying things and not knowing history.

Post a picture of where the leak is coming from, may need to resize it so it uploads. And you can post a video on YouTube and put a link here for noise issue.

Did you ever figure it out

Could be wrong but sounds like a wireing issue to me, you're getting high and low volts. Maybe melted wires in wireing looms, or a ground someplace, most times when you have a lose ground it will do odd things. Might need to get a wireing diagram and start ohming wires. Look at connectors, a lot of times that's where you'll find a bad spot, especially if it was lose to begin with, that's where heat is created.

I would have to agree, get clutch to support future mods. I would probably put in at least a 450hp clutch in.

Is power steering fluid full

When does a guy need one of them, sertain years, or auto vs manual?

Someone just last week had one of the intake cover bolts lose leaking air making noise but he had lower boost and more smoke, still worth pressure checking system for leaks. Could it be a belt making noise? Or possibly a bearing going out on one of the pulleys, noises can travel through things too and make it look like something it's not. I personally don't think problems are related, unless vacume plump seal is leaking, then maybe.

I have a BD that bolts to turbo with 5 bolts, it comes with a flange that replaces stock one. It is a 3" and not sure if there are any that come as 4" only inline ones are bigger. That's why I had a turbo built out of hx35 to be 62/67/12 not as good on spooling as hx35 but moves more air at same psi and I got to keep my exhaust brake. I'm pretty happy with it. If you're planning on bigger exhaust and different turbos in future maybe worth going with inline set up. I do have a 5" exhaust, comes out of turbo as 3" and right of way changes to 4" for down pipe and then to5. I do think that @Me78569 has a great set up that I looked into but decided to go the way I did. If you want good spool up I would say check it out

Well in my case ever since I put on 62/67/12 HX35 hybrid, I can't seem to be able to go passed 35 psi and that is almost with all the fuel I can toss at it without exessive smoke, yes I could possibly still have a boost leak I only check for leaks at 25psi so I will double check at 35 if my home made contraption doesn't blow appart. But long story short when I did change scale from 40 to 35 boost went up to 37, guessing that little bit more fuel helped. I'm only running 75hp injectors so I think that's my limitation at this point, sometimes in future I'll get 100 or 150hp. But I'm pretty happy with what I got as it is, when that wire tap kicks in it feels like nitrous on my mustang I used to have. And got it tuned in decent too not much smoke at all, I still use go pedal for most of that control though. But even if I floor it off the line it clears up pretty quick. Little update, found that my boots were leaking some boost right through the rubber. Put new boots on now I can hit 42psi on mechanical gauge and quad reporting 50psi. So I now put boost scaling back to 40.

@Quadzilla Power yes thank you, that confirms what I expirienced, and my boost did go up few psi doing so. I might increase it to 36-370si for scale. @Me78569 we still love you man...

So in other words, if my trucks max achievable boost is 35 psi and I leave it at 40 psi scale, I'll still get full wire tap at 35psi actual boost ?

@Me78569 I kinda have same question about scaleing

Sounds like you need to visit your tranny guy, 50ml isn't far at all if he knows his stuff. At least you'll figure out if it's tranny or not.