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Used those fittings all over the powerplant instrumentation lines and got them from SwageLok. We called them mud dauber fittings. the bugs would make a home and fill up the vent lines. Also seen them with very fine porus stone in the end.
Plastic (high-density polyethylene HDPE) as a fuel tank material of construction, while functionally viable in the short term, has a long term potential to become saturated as fuels such as diesel and gasoline permeate the HDPE material.
Typically, plastic fuel tanks are made from these five...
One maybe should read + understand all the posts and thier derivitives.
This is bleeding the brakes that ARE Adjusted and then on the Hydraulic side too.
All these SS People all want to help.
This gets more and more difficult to show how to do it when one is loosing their vision. You Heed what...
One man brake bleeder
This is what I used along with my pressure bleeder in post #15.
It made the job simple as it has a little check valve in it.
NAPA Part #: BK 7769089
https://www.napaonline.com/en/p/BK_7769089
The sightglass remains as part of the system and is valved out when bleeding the brakes. As shown in .MOV the sightglass became the reservoir remote. I hawked eyed that and my aux air pressure gauge always. The sightglass was always fun to watch the fluid moving. One of my better inventions. I...
Is you underhood firewall side vent line still there, did it get the filter mod?
Filter could get plugged.
I bleed the brakes so many times I made it semi permanent with quick disconnects when I installed sightglass acting as remote reservoir.
I had zero problems pumping it to 8-10 psi and using...
TM 9-2320-361-24 WP 0172 00
Did you follow that? That WP is four pages
Is the master cylinder vent disconnected from the vent/ fuel and axle vents?
Is the little hole in bottom of MC free and clear?
Use a pressure bleeder, can make one or buy one cheap.
Does it have a remote reservoir?
In...
And from 2013... see post 3
may have to put this into google to find it
https://www.steelsoldiers.com/threads/tm-for-leaf-spring-axle-mount-perch.114886/
Do you have the anti drainback oil filters on your truck. If not then sometimes in the first 90 seconds of engine run you will hear the turbo stop screaming when it finally gets lube oil. All lube oil drains to pan on shutdown as per design.
If you are going to really grease it all then pull up the cab tunnel plates and grease things in there . That is the best way to tighten the jackshaft bolts, transfer lever pinnings, clutch cross shaft, and the FWD solenoid maintenace and greasing as per TM's.
Get used to taking it apart and...
Get all the TM's for your truck in one place.
There are in >PDF format.
Open any one of them and type Ctrl and f at same time and you will get a search box upper right. Type in differential or what ever it is you seek and click enter. The litle box will then show anyplace in that TM that has the...
One could install an engine cutoff in a Swagelock Tee at this particular place and save all the heartaches. I suggest everybody with this thing to do that $$
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