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Katoom, you have Rodeo belt buckles on yers boss.

Might be a good idea you have there. I like that thought of putting wide rubber strips in between.

After taken you for beer

I'm very glad. Now I know I got me a real bud to kid with. I was feelin pretty good after a double Canadian Club Definition of a Canadian Club....

Source used a big cordless impact wrench. The battery was weak but it got it to turn. I remember you could put an eye or ear to it under there while someone bounced the truck and you still could not find it but they went right to that track bar and it got it.

I hope you did not take it serious Dave... I guess I came across wrong cause I was trying to be funny after having a drink, I was flyin' a little high.

Are there a lot of similar stories about this failure? I guess I just haven't heard.

I've had no clunk Dripley for 3 years now. Hauling heavy front end wearing loads with the truck camper In fact I only had a clunk for a wee while before the front end got rebuilt I don't think it's normal

I had a clunk within a week of the entire front end rebuilt. Some built with better aftermarket parts. I told Source Automotive about it and they immediately went to the lower end connection at the differential and retightened the New Track bar with an impact wrench. Clunk went away and never came back. They say it has to be really tight at that point. Hope this helps.

I'm approaching 90.000 on my oem 47re 2002 Dodge. If I can time it right for a rebuild before any damage, I will take it into Dynamic Transmissions.

Guys from California are supposed to stop off here in August and then convoy off the next day to the meet and greet Eclipse camp out. Me got country beer store 4 miles away.

Any you guys need a stopover (20mins off I-205) the coffee's always hot. After dropping the bolt down the intake tube it ruined my whole outlook on social alcoholic living.

I almost got creamed by one of those cars you cannot hear coming right at you. they might of saw me get out of my global warming cummins and walk to the store cause the idiot never even slowed down. Then at Thanksgiving a guest we had over for celebration got on my case for using a woodstove to heat my house. She was scolding me in my own home. Glad I had two diesel pick ups parked in the driveway. Anyhow, I think these folks are nuts, besides, isn't it more efficient to go diesel since you get so much more from a barrel of oil?

Katoom, Part of my Family owned the old Dicker's Department store back in the day there in Redding. I think they owned the mall and parking lot too. IBM, if you ever want to get out of there and hide and get free hook ups long as you like up here in the woods..... I promise I won't drink all the coffee any more.

KATOOM, you probably live in Hawaii saying something like that.

Wild and Free, I enjoyed the snow pics. It looks like the ocean in a storm but only with snow. It looks cool cause a lot of us have never seen that much snow. One question... where you park your tractor, it looks like you have retaining walls on both sides, so why not build walls and a roof on those to house the tractor? Unless you have a building inspector lives near by.

Nice write up Hag. You put some time in that, Thank you and Merry Christmas. 'tis that time of year.

About 15 yrs ago, on my first gen, I thought there was a rod knock. I forgot about it and still running the same unrebuilt motor that's approaching half million miles. Still driving the old girl every day for over 20 years now. Been a great truck is all I can say. 2 stroke oil will quiet it down. My trucks love that stuff.

Some kind of Check ball valve...... I don't know.... has to have something when you think how much pressure being generated by the VP.... enough to blow your finger and hands apart and have to be amputated. Dripley is the chicken good enough to go there often for lunch? They got one here in town of Clackamas, Oregon. Have to give it a try.

Lol. There's got to be some kind of way the high pressure is kept out of the return flow. I know you can see minimal pulsation while flowing in the fill neck. So it makes me think there is no way for air to get flowing back up into the fuel needed to run smooth. Maybe mine has an advantage with the termination of the flow being high up in the fill neck since air naturally wants to run upward in liquids. And if I was building a Chick Filet I'd probably be a cooked goose by the time it was done.

I see how your looking at it. What I don't understand is when looking at my return flow going down the fill neck, it looks like not much pulsation, more of a passive flow with very little pressure behind it. So there's some way the system keeps the high pressure out of the return flow. It would be like putting me in charge of a chic filet for the first time to understand it

Don't mean to nit pic......but isn't your fuel pressure too low ? Thats VP damage level there. Have to stay above 14 Scott.

Oh yeah.... I did misinterpret what you said originally. Thought it was about splash/air getting in I don't see how air can get in the high pressure supply side from that unless you know something I don't Dave. isn't there a check valve... something to keep high pressure out of the return? If there is an untightened injector or pressure line. Something is allowing air in to cause minor drain back to the tank. I had it happen when I thought the factory fuel filter cap was tight once. I also found it happened more so when I had a half tank. Later I torqued the cap to factory specs (25 ft. pounds) and problem went away.

One of the reasons I don't share what sizes and lengths of steel you need, is because mine is a hash of steel/ aluminum, was laying around and some is difficult to get, like the flat bed rail pieces. Everything just happened to work out though. Still not easy in the 'how do I fix this major hole' thought process. Main thing not drill the truck frame but use existing factory holes. Still I think I could come up with a better way of doing it bouncing off what I did originally. Nice to see you on here Joe. Matt I think you have some tank drainback and a wee bit of air getting sucked into the lines. Especially if you notice immediate hard starts.

Matt I think Dripley is correct... I think your short return line is splashing air bubbles into the draw suction. Splash inside the bottom of the canister. Excuse me Bud for sending this thread on a tangent. Matt