
Everything posted by trreed
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My addiction
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Teardown and Rebuild
My truck already hates me.
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trreed's upgrade thread
We got 8 inches of snow in Golden last night, and the new tires exceeded my expectations. So I'm happy
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trreed's upgrade thread
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.
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trreed's upgrade thread
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
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Quadzilla V2 Custom Tunes
Anything super smokey is gonna hurt your stock trans.
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Quadzilla V2 Custom Tunes
sounds great! can't wait.
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Quadzilla fuel trip and instant mpg
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.
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Quadzilla fuel trip and instant mpg
Neat! So before, it only took into account canbus fueling?
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Quadzilla fuel trip and instant mpg
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
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Quadzilla fuel trip and instant mpg
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
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Teardown and Rebuild
Overkill much??? I was expecting zip ties...
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351C Overheating Issue
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.
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351C Overheating Issue
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.
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Valve Spring seller?
That's the drag link.
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351C Overheating Issue
I forgot about those! I'll have to pick up a kit. Easy test.
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351C Overheating Issue
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
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351C Overheating Issue
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
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Valve Spring seller?
Diesel Auto Power is even cheaper than CPP for the same spring (I think it's the same)
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351C Overheating Issue
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?
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Valve Spring seller?
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.
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02 Cummins 1850rpm max
You can definitely hear the jump, but it's not super loud.
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Sure hurts to be dumb
I refuse!
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02 Cummins 1850rpm max
I'm running as high as 25* while cruising now. Hopefully can fine tune with the mpg meter and see where it's happiest
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Skid Steer Surge
If it has individual injection pumps, where does the governor reside? Maybe it's a governor issue like the welder was.