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Swapped dash pads today, red for blue. The red one's got some cracks and the usual speaker grill issues but no where near as bad as the blue one. Replaced the broken A-pillar trim pieces with good ones.
I don't know about the 83, but when I replaced mine they weren't cheap, especially the right inner. Be sure you grease the king pins regularly, mine are still the original ones. They take grease easier if you jack up the side you are greasing to remove the load on them.
I don't know about the 83, but when I replaced mine they weren't cheap, especially the right inner. Be sure you grease the king pins regularly, mine are still the original ones. They take grease easier if you jack up the side you are greasing to remove the load on them.
I've greased them a few times since I got the truck. Last night I started pumping and kept going until all the brown nasty grease was out and the new stuff was coming out.
I don't know about the 83, but when I replaced mine they weren't cheap, especially the right inner. Be sure you grease the king pins regularly, mine are still the original ones. They take grease easier if you jack up the side you are greasing to remove the load on them.
I replaced all inner and outer tie rods for under $40 from RockAuto. Probably won't last as long as original Motorcraft though.
I need to do the inner tie rod's this year. They're still good, but have a very minimal amount of play in them. For $20 a piece and I get to eliminate a tiny bit of play... My truck also has the original king pins. I can tell you that by the 3" of dirt/ dried grease all over the whole assembly.
Today I decided to pull out the blower fan and clean things out. I wasn't getting much airflow even on the highest fan setting so it was time to fix it. Pulled the fan out and found leaves and crap as expected. What I didn't expect was to find the a.c. evaporator to be almost completely plugged up. The little resistors for the fan were buried in dirt and leaves, no joke. How they didn't start a fire is beyond me. I just pulled the entire evaporator out and left it that way.
At least they are easy to change. BTW, if you have an AutoZone near you, they sell a lifetime one. I think I am now on my 3rd in 20 years of owning Darth.
At least they are easy to change. BTW, if you have an AutoZone near you, they sell a lifetime one. I think I am now on my 3rd in 20 years of owning Darth.
I just bought and installed the AutoZone one this morning. It seems beefier than the one that was in the truck. Hope this one holds. Going to the junkyard and see if I can find an old brass/copper core to rebuild.
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