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Thanks. I'm busy this week, but I'll dig into it Sunday. Just have to run through potential solutions until something works. It's not the same problem he was having, though. It's not starved for power, it even seems to have a bit more...but that might be because the leak is gone. I drove...

Spoke too soon. When I went to pick it up, it started up just fine, idling at 800. On the highway in a couple minutes and it's feeling pretty good, first light I come to, I put it in neutral well before the light (I don't downshift when slowing down, it's a pita enough shifting in this truck to...

Ok, so the guy was busy all week and got back into to it today. He tried a few things and in the end replaced the filters & cleaned a fuel line at the same time and the problem went away. So, I guess there was debris somewhere. It'll be good to get it back, my neighbors are probably sighing...

Certainly it's possible that a repair made 3 years ago could have a bearing on this situation, however I would like to first look at things that are likely to have happened related to the installation of the new HH and the adjustment of the idle. In short, check the most likely suspects and...

Yeah, he's a mechanic, he's just never worked on this type of truck before. Most of the work he's done for me hasn't involved the engine, once you get past the engine it starts looking like some other trucks (albeit, older ones). I will freely admit that I am no mechanic. I research and...

Thanks, I'll pass those along.

Some background: The truck is at a mechanic getting some misc. work done. Right now I have more money than time, and some things are beyond my ability. One of the things done was to swap a new hydraulic head as the old one had a leak (I sent him a link to how it was done here - also he...