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  1. Al Smith

    The Truck Thread

    That would be Willie ,pure as the new fallen snow .
  2. Al Smith

    The Truck Thread

    --when it all leaks out it never works again ---
  3. Al Smith

    The Truck Thread

    That's the one good thing about about electronic engine control .If it's working correctly it can save you a ton of money by saving the engine . Imagine what could have happened had it cracked a head .ooooh not good at all . FWIW a few years back when a few of you tried storm chasing a local...
  4. Al Smith

    The Truck Thread

    Chevy had a bunch of soft cams during the mid 70's . On the other hand the small block 350's had blocks that were hard as a rock . It's not uncommon to get 200 thousand miles on the engine before a rebuild if you change the oil on a regular bassis . It used to be relatively cheap to rebuild a...
  5. Al Smith

    The Truck Thread

    Maybe a tad off the subject but I got reminded of two instances involving old trucks . The first was a 1954 grain hauler my brother in law had .Old flat head Dodge with a bad water pump .I fixed it with the innards from a Ford water pump .Wide open pedal to the metal about 45 MPH . The second...
  6. Al Smith

    The Truck Thread

    That diagram looks like a Ford OEM drawing . Chiltons is more descriptive but hard to follow .Mitchels are probabley the best because rather than Chiltons that just blast it all on one page Mitchels breaks it down to specific areas . Mitchels are so damned expensive as is their on-line service...
  7. Al Smith

    The Truck Thread

    Hey hey hey ,good old Google comes through again http://www.lemonauto.com/complaints/ford/ford_f250.htm
  8. Al Smith

    The Truck Thread

    Actually I don't recall every seeing any that didn't have a double set of blinkers since they started using them whenever that was . On the old ones the turn signal blinker was on the fuse panal and the 4 wire connected to a harness dangling under the dash . The metal ones were loud enough to...
  9. Al Smith

    The Truck Thread

    Yeah,traveled that road a time or two myself .;)
  10. Al Smith

    The Truck Thread

    We had a problem with Toms' International bucket truck overloading the flasher unit which surprised me .I would have thought a big old diesel truck like that would already have had a heavy duty unit .He replaced it with something and it must be working else he'd have drug it out for me to look...
  11. Al Smith

    The Truck Thread

    On that 350 ,Ford for some unknown reason uses various "ground " termination points .Evidently either for ease of assembley or an aide to be able to isolate for purposes of trouble shooting .If one of those SOB's comes loose it can cause all kinds of problems . Another thing to keep in mind ,if...
  12. Al Smith

    The Truck Thread

    Well that plus the Ohio state police force took all the fun out of bar hopping .Well looking back I thought it was fun but maybe I was just kidding myself .
  13. Al Smith

    The Truck Thread

    If I'm not mistaken Cailfornia passed a law mandating more pollution efficient engines in older equipment including off road stuff like pan scrapers and dozers .
  14. Al Smith

    The Truck Thread

    Restoring old Jeeps was my fathers favorite past time.He did at least a dozen or more total frame off restorations ,maybe many more non frame offs. His last one is setting in the barn as I type ,done when he was over 70 years old. He sold one to a man from Houston Texas who drove that danged...
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