Dieselfuture

With time springs sag/settle frame comes closer to axle and changes the length of track bar. Best is to have adjustable so you can center front axle and body, if you don't it just puts more stress on track bar and they wear out faster. You basically pushing body off to one side now, not much but enough.

I had that and between changing injectors to 7x10 vco pop 320 and fixing ac noise problems went away.

Oops sorry, I thought we were talking truck

My last set was 10 years from carqwest, not sure who makes them or made them. They were still good but I decided to change them out last year with Walmart ones.

When I got my truck about 10 years ago po told me that original owner had vp replaced under warranty, so I'm 3rd owner, I got it with 123k it has 180k I think it got changed around 80k from what I can figure out and around 2008 so it has 100k on it now and 13 years. This was exactly the reason I joined this site chasing issues with surging, I thought it was a bad vp but ended up being between ac noise and injectors. Still has the VP that original owner had changed under warranty, lats week I got 21 mpg hand calculated, I think it's still good.

It seems that with reman pumps it's normal to see 250k on average heat or no heat through the pump. Seems most failures now is timing piston finally seazes up.

I think a lot of heat related problems with psg were resolved with remaned boards with better solder

Lol it's evil too in the way...

Make some boost foolers/elbows I'm in process of making one right now from some menards parts.

My opinion, but I believe this fall/winter will be tough in many ways. Better be ready on all levels as much as you can.

I had an issue when I changed my head gasket with seals poping off the guides, probably due to high drive pressure or exhaust break, just an opinion. Ether way after putting new ones on and having same issues I modified some top hats that were meant for the 4l ford just because they were the closest thing without machine work on the head, which I wasn't going to take it off just for seals. I'm having a hard times using search here to find my old posts, but someone else tried to do same thing and said he had an issue using factory valve springs. I got conical Manton springs that may be a bit taller and uses shorter valve spring retainer keepers. I would think there'll be plenty of room with factory springs but I never tried it that way. I'll see if I can find my post. Valve guides are drilled out and new get pressed in, factory are part of the head, mine are brass now. Found it

You need to be checking ac at alternator not on batteries. Big difference, battery is like a filter it buffs out ac noise. Do a wt mod for sure. Not saying you don't have other issues but WT is important on our trucks.

I've been tossing idea of tweens some day, using my custom hx35/40 and something not too big for the other one, I just don't need it, but some day I might do it for fun. Wife keeps changing vehicles every so often wasting money, I guess she makes it so... I figured if I spend few k a year on mine it well worth it to me. I haven't spent much lately so I've been on the look out for a ss manifold and something used for secondary, if i find something I may just do it. 500 safe hp would be awesome for tweens towing and with a good tune I may see close to 700? Not towing bit screwing around. I just keep thinking about everything else and it makes me not be in a hurry. Like nv56 may not like it etc, so why mess with a good thing. Idk maybe some day.

12 and 6 to me would mean a ball joint. You can put it on jack stands and get pry bar under the tire have someone wiggle it while you watch. There always a bit of up and down movement but shouldn't be any side to side. You can grease them through sensor hole, just don't over do it. I've drilled and put a grease zerk in so I can grease it and old stuff comes out of sensor hole. I also used a vacuum and got all of the old grease out through sensor hole, then put some miniral spirits thinner in spun the hub, vacuumed, repeat until it's all nice and clean, then pump grease in through the grease zerk, maybe 15 pumps, drove like that for 10k or so then I changed them out chasing my abs break light issues which turned out to be my rear end sensor. So I got all new front end for no reason and got old hubs on the shelf as they are still in great shape with about 160k on them.

You sure there wasn't an extra gallon of 2 stroke oil in there Can't attach smiles for some reason

I'm happy with my single and what I do with it, to each their own I guess.

Any piece of house will work All I had was piece of vinyl tube, been on for years now

I on the other hand used the hell out of mine trying to make custom valve seals . Btw they are still holding up

Not trying to start anything, but how much do you trust these guys. Good deal doesn't always mean it is.

Or a worn out fork or plastic pads, or if you ever grinded it it hard enough it could of damaged teef on the collar.

I believe ether air in fuel or too much timing, any codes?

Maybe mass air flow sensor cleaner?

When I was playing around with a spare ecm I had same thing happen, lost tach on the dash but was still seeing it on my quad. I was told that the pcm needs fixing but I knew that I didn't have this problem before I swapped the ECM so I put my original one back in and no more problems. I don't know if I had lose connection on ecm or something is wrong with it inside, it ran perfectly fine other then loosing tach signal. I would do the WT mod and check alternator for AC noise, check all other grounds you can think of. All these talks about chasing wires and very rare it's any of it (unless it's one of the splices that WT mod covers), most of the time it's grounds and ac noise, and sometimes failed ecms because of bad grounds and ac noise that been slowly burning up the modules. This is my opinion, it's still worth checking what is suggested by others, never know. WT mod is needed on our trucks and easy to do, same with ac noise it needs to be checked once in a while. There are other ground splices that need attention, but WT covers the important ones that cause most issues.

I think welding should be ok, but first make sure it's not supposed to be that way.