FireHead

One of the diesel truck magazines I bought at the airport last week talked about it in a chassis/cab configuration (I'm not sure if that makes it different or not). The magazine was testing the truck and they experienced a crap load of check engine lights while they had. The article made me sad so I stopped reading it, but I got two new diesel truck magazines on the way home so I am all set for readin this evening. :geek:

If you bought me a beer I would walk down the street and buy you a couple from Ace Hardware. :cool:

Yeah, my misadventures with o-rings in the head(s) I made were terrible. Depending on which time it was I took the thing apart and put it back together I would get it [ressurizing the cooling system or drinking coolant. I think I may have had a little of both going on at one point. Atleast I was able to figure out what was causing it. Fixing it was whole other deal. You may actually remember my latest transmission oil vomitting episode. It was probably about a year ago. I had routed and rerouted my breather lines many times and oil was still coming out. I tried several different types and weights of oils (which actually got me hooked on Type F ATF, so it wasn't all bad). No matter what I did, as soon as the cases got above 100 degrees F, the thing started puking gear oil. It finally turned out after the problem mysteriously disappeared and reappeared a few time that there was a casting flaw on the edge of the crank seal diameter. That whole episode was fucking gay. With as much of my own stuff I screw up, it's amazing anyone pays me to do what I do for a living.

Blue printing is sort of what it sounds like. You take the parts you have and make sure that they are with in print. Print, in this case, would be defined as an engineering drawing describing the part, it's tolerance, surface finish, heat treat, hardness, etc. If the parts are used, then it may require re-machining, or balancing. If the parts are new then it involves sending them back to the vendor you bought them from and telling to send you parts that are in print this time. :biggrin:

That's an interesting website. Thanks.

I agree with the statement that the o-ring maybe damaged, shrunken, or swollen without it readily appearing to be. I disagree with putting silicon on the o-ring during assembly. If you need something to lubricate the o-ring or to hold it in place use a petroleum based grease or Vaseline. Depending on the o-ring material and the silicon used you can ruin the o-ring with the silicon if the silicon happens to be solvent in a chemical that the o-ring is solvent in. There are several other fluke failures that can come from this practice as well. To be safe, don't do it.

I would definitely be looking at the 3.73 gear ratio with the lsd option. :thumbsup:

I understand how an exhaust brake works, I was more curious how it played into the transmission shift pattern that you were describing earlier as it sort of didn't make sense. I also like the engine warm up feature that the exhaust brake has. :thumbsup:

If the latter were true and I found a 5.9, would I want a manual or auto transmission? Like I said before, I don't want a cab chassis.

Ok. I haven't seen a transmission model number on any of the window stickers I have seen so far. I will keep an eye out for +/- button on the shifter. Does that gaurantee it to be an Aisin transmission with the +/- in the shifter or could it be something else as well? I was wondering how the exhaust brake ties in with the transmission doing it's thing.

A 2500 probably makes more sense for me, but either would be fine. Like I said, I am buying this thing as a primary mode of transportation and toy. I currently don't own anything heavy that needs to be towed or hauled, but I do like to be able to tow my friends trailers every once in awhile or pull their motorhomes out of the sand. :cool:

How does that all work with the exhaust brake? What is the best way to tell which transmission a truck has if I am wandering around a dealer lot.

I think that may be one of the magazines that I have. I have to go by the dry cleaners, which just happens to be by Barnes and Noble, tonight on the way home from work so I will have to stop in and see if they have any new magazines. It kinda seems like the Cummins engine is the way to go, which means a Dodge is the way to go. I need to probably learn more about the Dodge transmissions. Is there a chance that I am going to have a choice between a 5.9 and 6.7 liter Cummins engine (I'm not sure when the new engine was introduced and how dealers handle that sort of thing)?

Is it CAT that Ford own then? It's one of the two. International makes the diesel engines that currently come in Ford light trucks. If Cummins light truck diesel engine introductions are anything like their class 7 or 8 truck engine introductions, then I would just assume not wait a year or more to be involved in another one of their new engine disasters.

I am not in the market for a Chassis/Cab version, so I am safe there. It seems like I hace heard just as many bad things about the Dodge engines as I have about the Ford engines. I still don't have really good feel for what is bs and what isn't.

Yeah, I think I got lost with the "I run lots of Wiseco pistons" part. Has he had alot of Wiseco pistons scuff his exhaust port? He would have been better off posting the message in French, as I would have had a good chance at understanding it then. :geek:

So, I get a call from UPS today saying that the guy that I shipped the carbs to had tried to file a damage claim with them. The lady told me that they inspected the carbs (she actually knew what they were, I was impressed) and found that there was no damage and that they looked brand new. Well, no shit, that's how I sold them and that's how they left my possession. UPS is going to mail me a signed letter containing their findings. Now, all I have to do is wait for the guy to get back to me, assuming that's what he's going to do next. I knew something was fishy with this deal, but I still can't figure out what the guy was hoping to gain from all this?

Atleast I only have a QC inspector that swats my hand if I try to handle a crankshaft without gloves. The TMG Formula 1 boys have to where fruity white gloves with a funny wrist band every time you enter the QC clean room no matter what you're doing. The reason I got in trouble with one of our QC guys (QC guys are technically under me on the org. chart) was that I had to go give presentation and I needed a prop, so I grabbed a crankshaft out of the QC room. I purposely grabbed an un oiled part so that the excutives I was going to be talking to wouldn't bitch about getting oil on their hands. I had the crank out of the climate controlled QC room for a few hours. When I returned it I didn't think much of it and I set back in line in the QC que. Later in the afternoon, I had a pissed off QC guy (QC folks are a bit eccentric) telling me about how a shop foreman had crawled up his ass for making them run a crank through the polishing process again due to rusty finger prints being on it. I asked the the guy if it was the part that I had borrowed by describing where I grabbed it from. Obviously, it was the part I borrowed. For about a week after there was a sign with my picture on it warning visitors not to touch unoiled or bagged parts without gloves. I think it has been about a year since I did this, and yet I still hear about it atleast once a week. ::

None of the Pro Design units I had ever did that. Are you sure that you didn't get an out of tolerance bearing?

Dude, how were able understand the original post. I didn't post anything in this thread because I couldn't figure out what he was talking about, bad translation or not.

You should post a picture up of that. For the most part I plan on using the truck as a car. :biggrin:

Yes, the motors are the same. :thumbsup:

I am not sure I understand what you are saying? Skat Trak has always made their own paddles. If you mean they make their own carcasses, then that's a bit different. I haven't a set of Haulers that were on a Skat Trak carcass. All the tired I have seen have been made out of Cheng Shin or Nankang tires. :geek:

The theory makes sense........I wasn't picking on you for that. I just wasn't sure if that's what you were getting or if it was something else. I would definitely agree that a combustion pressure leak in to the cooling system could cause his overheating system. I feel a bit retarded since I didn't think of it before. I have quite a bit of experience with the symptoms you describe from back when I was learning how to properly size o-ring grooves in aluminum parts that go through a heat cycle the hard way. :laugh:

Skat Trak will make you anything you can think of. You just have to call them. I am pretty sure my red bike has 22x11x8 10 paddle extremes on it.