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Good reminder for me... I need to call blue top! Bill, how do you adjust the bands? Any gotchas or tips? Do you use a torque wrench per the procedure?

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It is going to be an entertaining market for certain. I honestly don't know what prices are going to do. It really looks like prices will continue to be very soft at least for the price per barrel of crude. But, I have a lot of ties to the oil industry and I like seeing american dollars go to the U.S. blue collar worker and your 401k/IRA rather than a Sheik, Imam, or Venezuelan Commie (noble Canadians are lumped in with the (north) American blue collar worker). Not saying you have to feel bad, just saying that I have a weird tie and love of high energy prices. I've read a lot of smart folks that have said that the commodity super cycle is over, just like it was in the 60s and 70s. In my opinion, with the free market we (in theory) know and love here in the free world, low prices and high prices are the best cure for low or high prices, respectively. However, with the amount of meddling the global governments are doing with monetary policy and racing each other to the bottom in terms of inflation... it is my own opinion that oil is one of the best barometers for the global economy as a whole. In short, cash is going to continue to be king. Debt is good only if it is at a low rate and the value of the asset leveraged is undervalued. Enjoy it while it lasts, gentlemen. I don't forsee that we will be having any sort of "economic recovery" that we want. I am not saying that the US is in a bad position at all, as we are in the best position globally, but save your dollars. Cash is king. I hope to buy property, guns and some specific machine tools when I find good deals in the next 5 years... at least if I can keep my jobs!

SUPER AWESOME!

I look forward to seeing your setup... as well as Tyler's

How much are we talking here, cost wise? If it was cheaper to do this than add a S475 Stainless Diesel piping kit (~2350 ish) for me then I would consider it. I don't need 600 hp though. With the air and fuel I have now I could, in theory, light up both tires, keep them lit while sliding sideways into the passing lane for about 40 yards (while signaling of course) right in front of a city cop who is such a bro he didn't even look at me. In theory... I am a lucky so and so sometimes, in theory. The point is that I got plenty of power as is. I want smooth instant boost and the reliability of a 600 lb anvil, which is why my trans is overbuilt.

If I didn't already replace my turbo, I would give that a shot.

Dave I'd just pay somebody if they are original ball joints and unit bearings. I'd replace everything. Steering linkage, sway bar links, Unit bearings, ball joints, u joints. I did ball joints alone last year and I've gone back one. Part. At. A. Time. And replaced everything else but u joints.

you could get an old ford.

Prime new customer for you, Mike.

If it were me, given what I have in the rest of the truck... at minimum I'd find a used engine and then sell the truck. More likely though, I would pull the motor and if I couldn't rebuild it, find a used core to overhaul.

Fueling box that has a set of 1 - 10 power levels. It seems to control fuel more off boost pressure than other fueling units and is much smoother than say an edge.

The smarty confuses the heck out of me... I love how my truck drives with it compared to any Edge product I've tried... I like the TST a lot, but some of the changes in how the truck behaves with minor Smarty changes make you really wonder what in the holy hell is going on. I really wonder if you shouldn't call Marco at Smarty and pick his brain a bit... You might get lucky. If I could have one document for the VP truck truck, it would be a treatise on how the Smarty works and how to tune to it by the makers of it. I think it is amazingly powerful, but sadly untapped. ETA: I found it fun, and helpful, to take a dead hour on a saturday road trip, and stop every 5-10 miles and reflash my ECM. I eventually found a tune with the REVO settings that works quite well at 300ft agl. Zero lag, lots of boost, and the TST just makes things crazy. I have yet to find the "tune" for high altitude.

Hornady came out with a really good new staple gun round, and everybody needs a good stapler. I want one of those, in 44 mag. I might make one. I enjoy working on cars & trucks. I love machine work and gunsmithing.

Yes. I like vulcans simple kit for draw straws. And dropping a near empty tank isn't hard. Vulcans instructions are good ashops well as Mikes article. Although I think it is even easier to drop the tank using two small ratchet straps and a friend. I lost a little usable fuel as it will suck air occasionally on hard stops or hard acceleration below 1/8th of a tank, but the increase in fuel flow is worth it. My factory pickup would keep flowing to darn near zero fuel.

I need better friends haha. Mine aren't capable of that... or willing.

A mag lite is better than hazed stock

Want.

Yeah. where did you get those?

I've been trying to find that one and the one on the Z bar earlier on in the linkage.

I wonder if there is some tuning in the REVO settings that would help. There really is no good documentation on how the REVO works, but I wonder if you reduced the duration and increased the timing... ? On my auto, I find that the revo settings do make a big difference when it comes to the Tq Management. My transmission shifts like crap and is VERY hard shifting with tq management off. I haven't messed with the other settings much.

Not a bad thought. Article with links to some of the more solid online stuff.

bump. It is that good.