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Damm Jim. Every time you plaster pics of your "business" I get goose bumps!!!! I simply love it!!!

Congrats!!!!

Nuthin' better than the little ones!!!

You need to PM Holyman. He will help you out on the bearing department. Cheap.

Yep. Oil makes the difference. I myself run Klotz super techniplate at 40:1. Not a problem. 3 other shee owners in my area run the same thing. No problems.

Shorty's, that is some hot business!!!!!!

'Bout a half hour. And I love that song!!! I have some cool remixes of it!! I play it through the paging system at work!!!

Interesting!!!

Jesus loves you...but everyone else thinks you are an ass. Impotence...Nature's way of saying "No hard feelings," The proctologist called ...they found your head. Everyone has a photographic memory ...some just don't have any film. Save your breath...You'll need it to blow up your date. Your ridiculous little opinion has been noted. I used to have a handle on life...but it broke off. WANTED: Meaningful overnight relationship. Guys...just because you have one, doesn't mean you have to be one. Some people just don't know how to drive... I call these people "Everybody But Me," Heart Attacks...God's revenge for eating His animal friends. Don't like my driving? Then quit watching me. If you can read this...I can slam on my brakes and sue you. Some people are only alive because it is illegal to shoot them. Try not to let your mind wander...It is too small and fragile to be out by itself. Hang up and drive!! And The Number One Bumper Sticker you'd Like To See!! Welcome to America ...now speak English

I have used cycle pro salvage in the past. Always had good stuff cheap. I forgt the # though.

Class can be back in session. But this time, homework is a must!!! And dammit all, pay attention!!!!!!

Holy SH$&!!!! I am gonna clean the dealer out and start sellin them bad boys!!!!!

I believ e it is a ground. But, I don't think there is any more than 1 wire coming out.....

Or, look for fly cutter marks. I myself use a surface grinder that leaves no marks. COmes out A+++++++++ And for every .010" you mill off, you should get about 10 PSI out of it. Untill you pass .030", then you are in the danger zone of squish. Your compression will raise considerably, but your squish will be fubared...

If you lower the cylinder, it should give you slightly more low end., However, it will come at a cost. The only reason to mill anything is to raise compression in the head. Don't lower the cylinders. You won't like it. Raising them wouldn't be a bad idea.......

Not a possibility. If the rod stops, and they want to be a prick about it, they can look for the U.S. forest service stamp and numbers. if they are not present on the silencer with the alleged spark arrestor, than they can still ticket you even though the rod stops in the silencer. I had it happen to me and 2 buddies at Silver Lake when we spent 3 hours fashioning up sweet fake spark arrestors. They wouldn't let us in. They were being dick's that day. It wasn't busy, and it was during the week. On the weekend, they didn't even check..... Sparky's are about $65 ea.

You need to go to the Yamaha dealer and get some Banshee pilot jets. The part number for a size 30 pilot is #260-14142-30. Should be about $6-$7 ea.

Alright. Now that I have finished up a couple things in the shop, I have some time here to break down your post and add a reply. Thanks chief. I appreciate it, even though you go at it again later. I'll point that out, just keep reading. Well, I am not wrong. I have proven it with every post. Time and time again. SO, I don't understand where exactly you keep running with your nonsense. I am not shooting my mouth off. I am speaking from persojnal experience, and knowledge. I have been involved with diesel engines long before I got a banshee. Ding fries are done!!!!!! You are wrong!!!!!! You are not keeping an open mind here. You have been nowhere near harsh. If you had, you would have known it. Believe me, I can take it. You, on the other hand, don't seem to take well to things when you are flat out wrong. I would like to know where I said it would blow compressed air BACK through the intake. What I said was that a Diesel has an unrestricted air intake. What this means, to me and every other person on the planet is that there is no butterfly to control the amount of air that flows into the engine. It may behoove you to understand this for a moment. If you had read any of my posts, or the ones I asked you to re-read, (I even quoted them for you so you wouldn't have to scroll, I know how this must be hard, because you obviously haven't read them) you would have understood this. I said that on the intake stroke, a diesel can suck in as much air as it wants. What part of that don't you understand? Already been cleared up. Scroll up, and you will see my reply to that. Thanks. And I do not only speak on factual things. Nope. Never said I was. YOU were the one who laid that one out there. REALLY???? I hope that you are a service writer. No, on second thought, I do not hope that. Perhaps the cashier. Because you are not a people person. Maybe the janitor??? You for sure can't be any sort of mechanic. I know SEVERAL people that work at Ford dealerships. I know several people that work at every manufacturer dealerships. Some close friends, some are just acquaintances. So what does that have to do with the difference between diesel and gasoline engine braking. You didn't say that, I made that inference from the jargon you posted. Sorry if you didn't mean that. it was more so of a comical line, I didn't think it would get ya all hyped up like that. Hrmmmmmmmmmmm At which point did I ay that it wouldn't??? None. Of course it will. Any time you take the combustible material out of the equation you will get some sort of engine braking. That is common knowledge. I was explaining ORIGINALLY in this post that diesels differ from gasoline engines. Wow!!!! How long did it take you to discover that????? Probably a damn long time. And yes, I do drive vehicles with automatics. In these vehicles, I have them equipped with manual locking torque convertors. But, I wouldn't expect you to understand that. And I have driven plenty of trucks that are standard and towed alot with them. No biggie. Really???? You mean I can downshift with a manual transmission vehicle???? The manual in Grand Theft Auto never told me that........ But, thanks for pointing that out and clearing it up. No kidding. You're right. I had no idea what all that 4 stroke stuff meant. But, once again, you have set me straight and "proved me wrong". LMMFAO!!!!! But, which vehicle does this apply to??? Because, in #2 stroke there, you have listed that this is where you get engine braking. Well, in a diesel, yes. In a gas motor, NO. You actualy get you're engine braking on the #1 stroke. Intake stroke. But, you REFUSE to address this FACT. There you have it folks. Diesel engines provide COMPRESSION braking when you refer to engine braking. Gasoline engines provide Vacuum braking when referred to engine braking. Yep. Plain and smple. (or so I thought) indeed. You are correct. I don't know why you are so hung up on this. We already went over this. It is an undeniable fact. NO WAY MAN!!!!!!! Holy crap batman!!!! Both valves close on the compression stroke???? WOW. You must be the re-incarnate of Jesus. I NEVER said that diesels don't have valves. Where you get this nonsense from, I don't know. Perhaps it comes from your "open mind". Which, by the way, isn't very open. Of course the engine has valves. You CANNOT have an internal combustion without one. What I meant by the unrestricted AIR intake is that there is no butterfly to stop the air flow IN. Why don't you understand that? This is where diesels and gas engines differ. Do this, take the butterfly off of your '03 F-150 with the "mighty" 5.4. DOn't worry. Your computer will still make it run. What happens? When you drive it, do your little "engine braking test" and see what happens. Oops!!! Meltdown!!!! Can't do that on a gas engine. AND, that engine braking wold be compareable now to that of a diesel. (except for the firing of the plugs to ignite the air in the cylinders that is now pesent because there is no butterfly to restrict the airflow) On a serious note, I wouldn't do that. It would make the Ford service peeps blow their fuse to figure out what happened when you take it in for warranty. Anyways, Remember when I said I was going to point out when you started getting the foul language going? Well, there it is. No need to call me a jackass. I am not a donkey. THANK YOU for finally noticing this. WOW. I can't believe it took this long. Yes, you just explained the intake stroke. Yeeeehaw. And the unrestricted AIR intake has nothing to do with engine braking???? Ok. You're right. Go throw a butterfly on your diesel's intake mouth. Why the hell not? Being that you say it has nothing to do with engine braking. Well, it has EVERYTHING to do with what manner the engine brakes. Just how is it that I don't understand this???? hrmmmmmmmm Seems I am NOT the one who doesn't understand it. You cannot call it BS. It is fact. The way the engine operates cannot be changed. And there you go again with the language. My mechanical background isn't in question here. but, since you must know, I design and build precision automated production machinery. From the ground up. From designing on ACAD, to constructing framework, to machining all the parts, to designing electrical, to installing electrical, to programming. I also do the maintenance on these machines. I own my own company desinging and building suspensions for vehicles. I do many things. However, they never get questioned. Why do you? I help out ALOT of people with engine work. I build and see alot of vehicles. My factual information comes from alot of places. I already quoted a couple. You must have overlooked them. I will start another paragraph here. O.K. Hrre we go. Summary time. Perhaps I used too harsh a word when I said that diesels provide "little" engine braking. They do provide engine braking as so generously explained by P8121 in Folks, there you have it. "Holey shit engine braking". Alright. NOWHERE did I say that diesels do not provide engine braking. They do. IMHO not as good as a Gas engine does. Stock for stock. It is something that I have tested. Now, Trav said that he found the opposite. This is good. Scenarios may have been different in his tests. I used the same trailer, and the same brand truck. Anyways, here is where I will explain the difference between gasoline engines and diesel engines where engine braking is concerned. Diesel engines use compression braking. They do this because they have an unrestricted air intake. I do not mean that they don't have valves, I mean that they have no butterfly, (or slide) to restrict the air flow entering the engine. What this means is that on any given intake stroke, the engine can suck in as much air as the cylinder(s) can hold. It then compresses it, which provides a certain amount of resistance to "brake" the motor. This, of course is all with respect to the operator "backing out" of the throttle. Or, providing no fuel into the equation with the motor remaining at higher than idle revs. Such as would occur with a loaded trailer on the back, and going downhill. So, we have diesel engines incorporating compression braking. I have explained that I don't know how many times, but some peeps neglected to soak that in. Now that we have covered the diesel engine braking, I will move to Gasoline engine braking. Gas engines differ from diesels in that they have a restricted air intake. They do this via a butterfly style valve, or a slide. They have to, because there is an ignition which will fire off a spark. This would ignite a lean mixture, and burn up the motor if there wasn't a restriction placed on the air intake. I explained this with the F-150 butterfly removal analogy. now, when you back out of the throttle on a gas engine, you effectively shut off the fuel (in a fuel injected vehicle, the computer stops firing the injectors, and in a carb vehicle, there is no air moving across the jets to pull out the fuel) and you shut off the air. So, the engine has nothing to pump anymore. So, on the intake stroke, it is trying to suck air in through the intake (wow, and I remember someone asking WTF the intake had to do with engine braking, and seemingly, it has EVERYTHING to do with it, but, I am a moron, or a jackass, or retard. take your pick) but the intake has been close off via the butterfly or slide. So, this creates an extreme level of vacuum inside the engine. THis is what brakes the gasoline motor. So, a gasoline engine utilizes vacuum braking. This is the mainstay of the discussion. This is where they differ. (with respect to engine braking) they differ in many other places. But, we shouldn't get into that untill other people understand this simple rule. So, tell me how I'm wrong here? Please. Pretty please? I would realy like to see it done. Because if, and that's a very big if, I'm wrong about the way diesels and gasoline engines brake, I will never come the the HQ again. Class is over

Well, composite!!! Not a full on plastic intake. (That's what I wasa thinking of) Sorry about that. I was making some nylon shit this morning in the shop and I guess I just had plastic on the brain??? And a hard night of drinking will do that to ya sometimes...

You would be surprised what a needle position can do. Also check to see that they aren't bent...

The resistance readings will be out of spec. You can get the correct readings from your clymer service manual. If they are not in spec, replace it. You could have a weak stator with your problem, or it could be carb related, or compression, it could be any number of things. Trick is to do the process of elimination and narrow it down with the cheapest stuff first. Like cleaning your carbs. Take a compression reading...

There is one way to overrev a modern diesel. You can hold your foot to the floor, and it won't go past redline. That is stock. Go look at a powerstroke, and fire it up. Hold your foot to the floor. I bet you anything you want that it won't go past redline. Now, if you are running down a hill, it may be possible to overrev it. And there is danger. The rotating mass in a diesel is HUGE. Everything is very heavy. it has to be in order to withstand the pressure involved in it's combustion. You can damage a diesel engine, although it is alot harder to do. Travis, this was with standard trannys as well. In Chevy;s tow/haul mode, when you let off the gas, it will keep the torque convertor locked to aid in engine braking. That's what it's there for. it will also downshift the tranny for you. Whereas others will not. You can make them do this. There are transmission controllers available aftermarket that will do this for you. With an auto tranny, it is necessary to lock the convertor to do this. Also, to not build heat, you must lock the convertor. I have also tried this test with Automatic trannys with manual lockup control. it was the same result. I tow alot of things. And I have always found that a gas motor would stop the load without brakes a little better than a diesel could. Stock for stock. Now, not stock is a different ball game. Put an exhaust brake on a diesel, and you will likely never change brakes again.....

Mine is a '96 frame

A raptor would be better suited to PA trails. They are tight, rocky, rutted, muddy, shittty. However, I would not own one. I would opt for a 450......

It matters because a diesel will suck in as much air as it wants to according to it's RPM. Nothing combusts, because there is little to no fuel being sent in. So, it is just sent out the exhaust. WHile this compressed air will slow the engine some, it is different than a gas engine. You see, it is not the same thing. A diesel engine, when left STOCK, will brake itself on compression. Whereas a gasoline engine brakes itself on vacuum. Look at it this way, on intake stroke, a diesel will suck in the copius amount of air. Then compress it. no biggie. That will slow the motor. I didn't say that it wouldn't. On a gasoline fed motor, the intake valve opens, and the cylinder tries to draw in air. Well, there is no air to draw in, because there is no air being let in. So, it is essentially vacuum braked. Diesels don't create vacuum. I just don't feel that diesels engine brake as effectively as a gas engine. With the right equipment however, it will outperform it three fold.