Project Lazarus-The Mare Resurrection
#286
04-06-2017, 10:13 PM
In this particular case, a different turbo/turbo oil feed line was installed. The oil feed line rubbed against the cowl enough to put a hole in it. Hot oil on the back of the hot block and hot exhaust equals fire.
#287
04-06-2017, 11:05 PM
Fire subject,the cruise control system was not fused from the factory . Fires were an issue until ford finally did the recall.
The mare met an untimely hiccup in its life but it was mearely a fork in the road to a different life.
Glenn took good care of the Ol gal and gave her a good life. Todd will complete the road to recovery
. rock on my FTE brothers,rick on
#290
04-07-2017, 10:05 PM
#291
04-10-2017, 10:51 AM
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#293
04-10-2017, 12:21 PM
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#294
04-10-2017, 03:29 PM
Mallory was hard and as you know was first. Colic bad etc and just not good sleep. I was done at one man after that. Megan was a breeze tho sadly second. I'm not thinking its a boy vs girl thing so much as just different kids. Love them gals no matter what!!!
#295
04-11-2017, 09:42 AM
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#298
06-07-2017, 10:10 PM
#299
06-07-2017, 10:39 PM
#300
01-23-2018, 06:58 PM
Lord have mercy this has fallen behind. Time for an update. I wish there was more progress since the last update, but such is life.
I wanted to wait and post until I had some photos of the coming progress, but I’m excited about the parts that are on the way.
I went back and read some, we last left off with the axles and engine in the garage. The engine is now on the new Jegs 2k lb stand and hasn’t been touched really. It’s mostly tore down awaiting parts and another member received the traveling SD17 HPOP.
The RSK is bolted in and the 60 is under it. The rear is “floating” for now for 4 link mock up. This brings us to the 4 link. I have never built one before. I rushed this initially with the purchase of parts. Stupid me. Live and learn, yeah yeah yeah. With a little more planning I would have realized that a triangulated 4 link will not work well in my application. Let me re phrase that. It won’t fit the best. The 4 link calc numbers did not jive well and my upper bar locations would have interfered with the exhaust and more than likely the air tank placement. I probably could have moved the tank to the outside of the framerails, but I wanted to keep it in the midship spot. Anyway, after discussing it with a few members I decided parallel 4 link it was. A couple of quick measurements plugged into the 4 link calc quickly revealed that this was the way to go. Heck, it’s only money right!!?? I spent some time trying to make my own braketry. I’m just not set up, nor do I have the time or skill to pull it off with the quality I wanted in this 4 link. So I hit the interwebs. I found a company out of Texas that specializes in lowering trucks on air and much of the same principles apply to what I want to do. Many convos and e mails, we established what I wanted. All of my stuff is 1 off and shipping this week. I’m so pumped. Axle brakes, weld on frame brakets, upper/lower bag brackets, tank, air valves, fittings and line should hopefully be here early next week. And my new rims are getting tires this week. I hope to have a rolling chaissis in the next couple of weeks. Thanks for staying tuned, that’s where I’m at.
I wanted to wait and post until I had some photos of the coming progress, but I’m excited about the parts that are on the way.
I went back and read some, we last left off with the axles and engine in the garage. The engine is now on the new Jegs 2k lb stand and hasn’t been touched really. It’s mostly tore down awaiting parts and another member received the traveling SD17 HPOP.
The RSK is bolted in and the 60 is under it. The rear is “floating” for now for 4 link mock up. This brings us to the 4 link. I have never built one before. I rushed this initially with the purchase of parts. Stupid me. Live and learn, yeah yeah yeah. With a little more planning I would have realized that a triangulated 4 link will not work well in my application. Let me re phrase that. It won’t fit the best. The 4 link calc numbers did not jive well and my upper bar locations would have interfered with the exhaust and more than likely the air tank placement. I probably could have moved the tank to the outside of the framerails, but I wanted to keep it in the midship spot. Anyway, after discussing it with a few members I decided parallel 4 link it was. A couple of quick measurements plugged into the 4 link calc quickly revealed that this was the way to go. Heck, it’s only money right!!?? I spent some time trying to make my own braketry. I’m just not set up, nor do I have the time or skill to pull it off with the quality I wanted in this 4 link. So I hit the interwebs. I found a company out of Texas that specializes in lowering trucks on air and much of the same principles apply to what I want to do. Many convos and e mails, we established what I wanted. All of my stuff is 1 off and shipping this week. I’m so pumped. Axle brakes, weld on frame brakets, upper/lower bag brackets, tank, air valves, fittings and line should hopefully be here early next week. And my new rims are getting tires this week. I hope to have a rolling chaissis in the next couple of weeks. Thanks for staying tuned, that’s where I’m at.