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fordtrucks80up-digest Friday, October 17 1997 Volume 01 : Number 170



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In this issue:

Re: Ford Trucks posting [James Forrest ]
Re: Drilling Holes in Bumper [Midwest96 aol.com]
Re: Ken's responses to Alt.. [Ken Payne ]
dream truck [yhtlines surfari.net]
Re: fordtrucks80up-digest V1 #163 [Bill Funk ]
Re: fordtrucks80up-digest V1 #163 [Bill Funk ]
Re: fordtrucks80up-digest V1 #163 [Bill Funk ]
Stumbling drunk & stalling 300 I6 [Pengy67 aol.com]
Re: E4OD AT [Bill Funk ]

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Date: Thu, 16 Oct 1997 20:38:31 -0500
From: James Forrest
Subject: Re: Ford Trucks posting

as far as the gearing goes, you will experience some problems because
3.73 are too small to turn 35 inchers. I wanted to put 35 on my 96
ranger but couldn't justify the cost of new gears. I haven't heard
anything about the 35's with the 8.8. I also would like to know if this
is too much stress

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Date: Thu, 16 Oct 1997 22:10:13 -0400 (EDT)
From: Midwest96 aol.com
Subject: Re: Drilling Holes in Bumper
>
Be very, very careful about mounting lights under the bumper. Not only have
some of us planted more than a pair, but if they get submerged too much...
















Craig

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Date: Thu, 16 Oct 1997 22:19:06 -0400
From: Ken Payne
Subject: Re: Ken's responses to Alt..

At 08:21 PM 10/16/97 -0400, you wrote:
>Hi fordtruck list members,
>Just a quick note.
>I'm sure that I am not the only one who follows the newsgroup rec.autos.tech,
>but I ran across another of Ken Payne's responses to Altovoz. I think that
>Ken's responses to that "jerk" are about the best I've seen on that
>newsgroup. Keep up the good work Ken!
>
>Bill

As you can see, I rarely loose my cool on the lists. This Altovoz
character is one of the few people I let get under my skin. He's
psychotic (no kidding). Some of my responses I have to chuckle
about. But sometimes I post a response and look at it the next
day and say to myself "what kind of an example am I displaying,
I hope no one from the lists reads it".... wishful thinking. I
made a decision earlier today to add him to my kill filter, I simply
can't take him anymore and I knew I cross the line when I mentioned
his mothers false teeth.

I'm way off topic here. Let me bring up a Ford truck topic I've
been thinking about....

A couple of people have mentioned cams. What are the experiences
our there with FE cams, not just the Edlebrocks but others. I'm
thinking of replacing the current one. I don't know the specific
specs of this one, got it from a friend. Its a little too much
for me, I can't get a smooth idle with it unless I make the idle
mixture really rich (and then it stinks of gas!). Its pretty
good when you get up there in the revs but I want more low end
punch.

Ken

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Date: Thu, 16 Oct 1997 19:41:01
From: yhtlines surfari.net
Subject: dream truck

Walt is havng a problem with his 92 f150 and VERY understandably p*ssed.
Mythought? Vehicles are machinery, and sometimes expensive, and used ones
are usually even more expensive. About a thousand to recover from the water
pump that disentegrted on my son's "new" 88 F150. Just whose wallet helped
recover from that one?

I hope you get your truck sorted out and begin to enjoy it again. The
repairs you list don't seem normal. I suspect that as you get it sorted
out, things will be brighter. I usually love even the orphan trouble some
vehicles I own, so I shouldn't be talking! We have driven all four(?)
American brands here in this family, and I have a personal bias against
Ford's ability to start rusting (we live on the coast), but think the
302/EFI combos are possibly the longest lived engine ever built, just don't
put it in front of that Mazda manual tranny. I've never had any
chassis/ suspension problems with fords once I got the twin Ibeams
straightened out to my liking. I usually have no problems getting 200k from
my fords, and by then I'm tired of them. The newer ones are not as simple
to figure out up front (EFI stuff, I mean) but they sure are reliable,
ignition problems not withstanding. And can be figured out--I gave up on
wanting to rebuild carbs a long time ago. You might want to join the
Fordnatics mailer also,as there is a lot of knowledge on SBF's there, and
balky efi/ignitions systems. You want to talk diesel? stay here? Small
blocks, listen in over "there". (I'm in both). (and would be on the 5.0
list, but its not digest).

Good luck and hope it turns out good. Probably somthing simple... (visions
of an open wallet).
Dave Lampert

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Date: Thu, 16 Oct 1997 22:02:09 -0700
From: Bill Funk
Subject: Re: fordtrucks80up-digest V1 #163

> Date: Tue, 14 Oct 1997 10:09:34 -0400
> From: Geoffrey Hoffman
> Subject: more electical questions / supercharger stuff....
>
> At 1:28 AM -0400 10/14/97, warren wrote:
> >Look for any Red with a Green tracer, this has 12v when key is on.
>
> well, i am now curious about one last thing? is there a line anywhere
> that
> is powered when the engine is powered, not just the key? i can hook
> it up
> to ao keyed line, but i don't want this to turn on if i just turn on
> the
> car to listen to my radio.

This can easily be done with an oil pressure sending switch.Using an
on-off switch, piggy-back it on your present switch, if the present one
is a variable resistance switch for a gauge. Otherwise, you can simply
tap into the on-off oil pressure switch you have, going to a 12V DC
relay, and using the output for anything you only want operating when
the ....

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