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Old fuel pump and filter housing out . Did a lil cleaning then replaced vibra lock seals at heads. Filter hsng installed and ready for next. The IPR pigtail was nasty so I'll grab one after work and he should run again. Woo hoo
 
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Gosh I really wish I wasnt in such a fury to finish this thing. It needs so much more. I swore efuel would go on but right now it's a no go. Oh well I'll drive it tonight before I sleep hopefully with axle pivot bushings done.
 
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Good luck getting her going again. Sometimes you just gotta let it go until next time.
 
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Gosh I really wish I wasnt in such a fury to finish this thing. It needs so much more. I swore efuel would go on but right now it's a no go. Oh well I'll drive it tonight before I sleep hopefully with axle pivot bushings done.
Back to driving a Ford tomorrow?
 
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Old 12-11-2020, 07:13 PM
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Drove it today. All well so far. Guess I'll do these bushings this weekend . It's good to drive it again. Made a small purchase thus afternoon for the old dude.
it's only 3 sadly but I'll be on the lookout and maybe get lucky.

 
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I had no idea those Vibra-lock guys were available separate. Rojo had the passenger one weep a hair.

And I feel that pain of three wheels only. I am trying to find the 4.6 cast alu one to put on my 5.4 truck, picked up three for $100. Those will look boss on an older truck like these!
 
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Old 12-12-2020, 03:55 PM
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I had no idea those Vibra-lock guys were available separate. Rojo had the passenger one weep a hair.

And I feel that pain of three wheels only. I am trying to find the 4.6 cast alu one to put on my 5.4 truck, picked up three for $100. Those will look boss on an older truck like these!
Yea clay sells them. Diesel orings brand. Easy install with just a 9/16 open end wrench.
Yes!! Hope we can both find the 4th lol
 
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Old 12-12-2020, 04:02 PM
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Well they were not as terrible as they looked before disassembly. Crunching still there. Pretty sure sway bar endlinks bushings are wapped out too. Guess that's one for tomorrow
 
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Well they were not as terrible as they looked before disassembly. Crunching still there. Pretty sure sway bar endlinks bushings are wapped out too. Guess that's one for tomorrow
I took off my front sway bar off and the truck rides 100× better even when towing, I wouldn't recommend it though as its a safety part
 
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I took off my front sway bar off and the truck rides 100× better even when towing, I wouldn't recommend it though as its a safety part
Cant be worse than my old 93 mustang with no sway bars,90-10s, spool and bigs n little with slicks in the rain.
I may disconnect as a diagnostic tho to be honest. Dang endlinks arent cheap for this dumb truck.
 
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Old 12-14-2020, 12:37 PM
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Well I sure dont regret pivot bushings. What a difference in how it drives. It had quite a bit of on center play. Everything felt tight so I didnt worry much. Well pivot bushings tightened that up a very good amount. Sweet. Old combo is driving pretty good!!
 
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I did them on Rojo. Not a terrible job, I noticed you do them when you do radius arm bushings as all that crap comes out at same time as well as shocks.

Back mobile here, that truck is 2x4 right? If so, check out those Moog progressive rate coils. I really dig mine.
 
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Originally Posted by Hit Man X
I did them on Rojo. Not a terrible job, I noticed you do them when you do radius arm bushings as all that crap comes out at same time as well as shocks.

Back mobile here, that truck is 2x4 right? If so, check out those Moog progressive rate coils. I really dig mine.
No they were not bad. Only issue was me holding the ball joint press and all the tooling up at the odd angle . An extra set of hands would have been nice. Driving normal to and from work no crunching. Only in very off camber out of the ordinary situations do I hear it. For now it's done. Ordering Clifford parts this weekend. Hoping to get the project moving. This dd is good enough.
 
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