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Anyone check out Hemmings Motor News lately? 80s Chevy/GMC trucks are going for between 7 to10k in only shiny but "good" condition. some go for more, 90% of those are wimpy C10/K10 shortbeds and there is nothing unique about them, many are not original. 2% were K30s, and very few blazers. No...

Hea alger, If your housing is shot, Any attempt to machine-bore out or resize mounting bolts or dowel pins could result in annother failure. If anyone is willing to do that for you, they are just taking your money. My ol man had a saying, "you can't make chicken salad out of chicken $hit, it...

Yep, they ticketed me over the winter for overnight parking on the street becuase had a plow on the truck. Even though i have an overnight permit sticker, the summons was for a "dump truck with plow"

My neighbors Really love my 1031 since I put the straight pipe stack on it. Local PD agnolages it with a subtle wave, guess im safe for now.

Suprised it makes that much boost, I thought they were only supposed to make between 7-10 psi of boost. The caps on mine are cracked also, and the turbo is only a few years old. Never liked those spring type hose clamps on anything.

Yea ryan, I knew this had to be done with gas engines, did the same with my bike years back. I didn't realise a fuel adj had to be made with a diesel. Pretty stupid brain fart on my part, What if it had been adj after the turbo install? Turn it up annother 1/4 turn? My engine runs great and I...

I lost some power going up hills after I straight piped my exhast. Any ideas? I do not know if the IP was adjusted after the PO installed the turbo. It has actually lowerd the RPM on level road, but seems like it is starving for fuel going up hills.

Don't beat yourself up over it. If you t-boned the guy that pulled out in front of you, you may have gone right over him and killing him in the process. As far as the red light goes, there was a lot going on in a short amount of time. the guy who pulled out started the whole senerio. The woman...

alger, I forgot to ask, Did those guys break the housing when they tried to mount it to the engine? The trans cannot be "drawn" into the engine by using the bolts. It's a rookie mistake and they should have known not to do that. There are dowel pins on the engine block to assist in alignment...

Exide 31s at Tractor Supply are also a good deal at $100 in my neck of the woods.

Yes on the first question. No on the second. once the truck starts it will send 24v to the rear battery jump vehicle. You have to be real quick to disconnect the rear bat jump cables. Wouldn't try it. You can charge each battery separately by completely disconnecting all the cables including the...

You may have left something on that drained the front battery, as said above, you may need to just jump the front battery. It won't start right away when jumping, let it charge for 10min or so. as you will need to cycle the glow plugs a few times if it's cold.

alger, After all that work they just noticed there was ony one bolt holding the trans? What is with the solinoid next to the 24v bus? What does it do? It looks to me like there has been some creative wiring performed on your truck. Did they check the starter relay under the dash? Try to find a...

LOL, I ain't puttin no flapper on that thing with all that jingling noise when I have to stop at a light. I just finally got rid of a bunch of jinglin noises. LOL rofl

Hea ryan, That's funny about the drive thru. I'll have to get someone with a video app on their phone, post it and see what you guys think. With all the tri axles with straight pipe jake brakes, rice burner cars and bikes, straight pipe harleys arround here, one more noisemaker won't matter...

Hea Matt, I can't take video on my cell phone but i'll try to find someone who can and post it. I don't know about how good it looks, I may change the clamps to the band type as the ones on it now look a little bubba out in plain sight like that. I did it on the cheap, $40 for a 3in 90 mandril...

I fabbed a straight pipe stack. yea it barks.

torque49, As ryan77 said, The classified secton here at Steel Soldiers is a great place to find a truck. These trucks have usually been upgraded with the nessasary modifications not found elseware as alot of members here are competent mechanics. You can go with GOV Liquadations, but living in...

Hea ryan, Way to go with welcoming the newbe to the site on his first post, Maybe give him some advice instead of insulting em with the stupid koo-koo icon. Seen you do this not to long ago to an established SS member, abusive and bulls**t.

wired, Why do you want to swap to a 700r4? Is that swap for your 1009? I may be mistaken, but I think you have 3.73 gears in the 1009. An OD trans will constantly be shifting from drive to overdrive and back again with those rear end gears. You will have a higher top end, speed wise, but I don't...