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Looks good, I sold the original "Plan B" truck a couple of weeks ago, he drove from Maine back to CA without issue, a testament to it's reliability. I never had any problems as well, glad to see this M1010 cure is living on to help others.
Good job, about to tackle the roof on my M886, was replacing that front piece a major job ?, I need to remove mine to clean out some nasty insulation and want to blast and paint that area. I purchased some closed end water tight rivets for replacements.
Dorman makes the manifolds, I did not replace the RH side with the valve and spring but Dorman does offer it. I purchased mine from Amazon. The gasket that came with the manifold was not correct for my application, correct gasket set noted in my post.
Raining here today so I will have to add...
No reverse lights mystery solved, the wire that supplies the voltage to the horn and reverse lights was broken free from the firewall connector on the inside. On the engine side the wire just pulled out, typical Dodge dodgy wiring. I drilled a hole through the firewall block and ran the wire...
Drove the M886 yesterday for the first time on the road, made it back without issue. It shifts very smooth, the power steering is nice but seems too easy to steer, wondering if the original equipped PS trucks had a smaller wheel ? I have replaced about every bulb, seems either they were burnt...
Is the factory steering wheel for power steering a smaller diameter than the manual steering wheel ? The power steering with the original(manual)wheel seems too easy to steer.
Thanks
Rainy here today so can't do much in the way of body work so I decided to tie up some loose ends on the electrical. The truck had a cobbled up grill and lights when I got it, they cut the factory bulb sockets off so I got them from the core support donor truck, luckily the 86 socket had not...
Sandblasted the rear light brackets and spare tire bracket, also had to fabricate one new "wing" for it as one was rotted pretty badly. Also installed new gas magnum shocks on the front, the PO installed new coil over shocks in the rear. I could not find original replacements for the rear...
I am going to disagree with the lube order on this one. Here is a picture of a spindle assembly, you can see a black dot if you look directly below the grease fitting. This is where the grease comes out, not on the spindle shaft but on the inner bearing. If you pump grease in it's going to...
Heater is all buttoned up and bolted down the core support. Sandblasted and primed the front bumper and filler/valence today. Drove the truck up and down my road a few times, a different ride compared to my M1010, having the rear body and cab attached, power steering works well. Next on the...
Heater core from Amazon was a fail, still no delivery date so I cancelled the order. Instead I found a similar core by looking through a heater core catalog, the core was the same size but different outlet lengths and no tin surround. I was able to sweat on standard copper pipe fittings to...
Bottom cushion 16x17x5 retaining tabs are 3" in from outside 2" long 1/2" wide female snap on end. Back cushion 16x16x4 tabs at bottom are 2" wide 8" long with female snap they wrap around the bottom back. The back has a sleeve at the top, slides over the back of the seat, sleeve is 19" wide...
Any CF2 rated 40wt oil like Rotella T1 40wt. The cushions can be tough to find, I will pull mine out and post up some measurements for you, they would be simple to make.
No machine work, just sanded it clean and check it with a straight edge, all looked good. Finished the exhaust today then moved on to sandblasting and priming the air cleaner. Hold up now is the heater core, Amazon had one listed, just waiting for a delivery date.
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