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  1. OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO savage.
  2. My truck already hates me.
  3. We got 8 inches of snow in Golden last night, and the new tires exceeded my expectations. So I'm happy
  4. Thanks! Hopefully you're still around Golden so we can go get that beer we talked about months ago... We're 'supposed' to get snow starting tomorrow.... But it is currently 38* and raining, so I bet we're going to get ice. I sure like having the slightly taller, more aggressive tires, but man can I tell a difference in fuel economy already. Guess I got used to the little 265's.
  5. Finally stepped back into a set of 285/75/R17's! And just in time for winter to supposedly hit my area too. Hoping these work out as well for me as they have for Tyler and his brother
  6. Anything super smokey is gonna hurt your stock trans.
  7. sounds great! can't wait.
  8. Cool, I'll get that flashed in. The gallons used always seemed to go up faster whenever I was using wiretap with the current flash.. Or canbus must've been higher as well.
  9. Neat! So before, it only took into account canbus fueling?
  10. We will see... Without my weekly trips to Sterling, fuel seems to stay in the tank longer, so this may take a bit longer to get zeroed in
  11. My first run at 145% was about 4 gallons over. So now i'm trying 140% but I bet that's gonna be over too
  12. Overkill much??? I was expecting zip ties...
  13. trreed replied to trreed's topic in Ford
    All I know about the car being stored was that it was stored from 1991-2014 in Colorado and I think it had just water in the radiator... Since then it's been stored in Minnesota with low silicate green coolant in the system. There's been plenty of rust every time the system has been flushed. There's plenty of circulation in the cooling system as viewed through the radiator cap.
  14. trreed replied to trreed's topic in Ford
    Car was never run with old radiator, hoses, thermostat, or water pump. It had been stored for 20 years, and before it was fired up the first time, it was flushed 5 times, new water pump installed, new hoses, new radiator, new thermostat.
  15. trreed replied to trreed's topic in Ford
    I forgot about those! I'll have to pick up a kit. Easy test.
  16. trreed replied to trreed's topic in Ford
    I'm betting that'll show me the true colors. Thanks for the tip! I'm away from the car for another two weeks but will try that when I'm working on it again
  17. trreed replied to trreed's topic in Ford
    1) actual temp is unknown, reading via stock gauge 2) both 3) I ran the bubble test twice, and after the cooling system purged the air in it, there were no bubbles 4) no mixing 5) cap has not been tested. Running a 16 psi cap that was on the radiator when I got the car 6) Radiator was new last year as old one scaled up and was leaking. Car has been stored with low-silicate green coolant
  18. Diesel Auto Power is even cheaper than CPP for the same spring (I think it's the same)
  19. trreed posted a topic in Ford
    I've got a 1970 351 Cleveland that is having an overheating issue. I've talked with @TFaoro about it and he's steering me towards it needing head gaskets. (A Ford needing head gaskets? Never heard of that!). Anyways, I was hoping to hear if anyone else has run into and issue like this. And when I say overheating "issue" I mean it's puking coolant out within three miles of gentle driving (with and without a thermostat). Last time I worked on the car (two days ago), I put on a new water pump in hopes that would help. It did not. Any thoughts?
  20. I did 75 ft lbs to hold the head down, then 100, then 125. Then after a week I went through again, loosened each nut completely, and retorqued to 135 ft lbs. No issues yet.
  21. You can definitely hear the jump, but it's not super loud.
  22. I'm running as high as 25* while cruising now. Hopefully can fine tune with the mpg meter and see where it's happiest
  23. If it has individual injection pumps, where does the governor reside? Maybe it's a governor issue like the welder was.