Why did Ford do this?
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From: Burlington
why did Ford do this
Why are the cup holders on the 1999 right above the ashtray? Guess ford never heard of coffee and a smoke?
And yes I have gotten in a vehicle and tunred the key and sat there.
And yes I have gotten in a vehicle and tunred the key and sat there.
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From: North Idaho
Originally Posted by monsterbaby
And the worst is when driving the pickup, or even worse the wifes expy, and swinging way wide around a corner, wife always asks me if Ihave enough room to make that corner.
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From: Tucson
Funny pbr man my dad could have used that lets say 10+ years ago when he ran the back trailer into an intersection light downtown rapid city sd. Oh and bye the way i suppose you can tell i am a young buck as I don't like phabst blue ribbon probably spelled that wrong. More a bud guy myself.
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From: North Idaho
Dang you guys and this post! LOL I have only had my pickup for 10 months and have not turned the 4x4 dial for the fan yet. Reading about the tendency to do that, I made a mental note to not mix up the two dials. Well this morning I started down the driveway and the sun was realy bright so I threw the sunglasses on the dash and turned the "fan" up to defog them. Tried to make a hard turn on to the highway and the front end bound up and I had realized what I had done. AAAHHH, I can't beleved I just engaged 4 wheel drive instead of the fan. If this post hadn't started it wouldn't have been in the back of my mind and I would have never done this.
Fleet Owner
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From: Rio Rico, AZ.
So this kind of begs the question. How hard would it be to get the lever and boot and install it? Remove the vacuum switch and install Warn hubs.
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Kwik,
I had wondered that myself for a while now. I guess if I can put on a body lift and stuff on the old Nissan by myself then I should be able to handle the mounting and cutting necessary to do this. I hate the piece of junk esof and plan on moving to warn hubs soon. I just dont know whether I want to make the jump yet and do it with the dynatrac setup or just the hubs.
Anthony
PS> How many of you are guilty (I AM) of walking to the back of the truck to unhook the trailer and then walking back up and opening the back door on the crewcab and looking for the steering wheel to pull yourself in and then feeling like and idiot. I now leave the drivers door open to prevent this.
I had wondered that myself for a while now. I guess if I can put on a body lift and stuff on the old Nissan by myself then I should be able to handle the mounting and cutting necessary to do this. I hate the piece of junk esof and plan on moving to warn hubs soon. I just dont know whether I want to make the jump yet and do it with the dynatrac setup or just the hubs.
Anthony
PS> How many of you are guilty (I AM) of walking to the back of the truck to unhook the trailer and then walking back up and opening the back door on the crewcab and looking for the steering wheel to pull yourself in and then feeling like and idiot. I now leave the drivers door open to prevent this.
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From: West-Central New York
powerkleen... You said it, man. The crewcab may be the greatest invention ever but it's made a fool of me more then once. Of all the other things people have said... that one takes the cake. Never messed up the dials yet but thanks for making me selfconscious.
If I had the cash for the dynatrac I'd probably do it, but then again, all that automatic stuff is much cooler. (till it stops working when you need it most)
If I had the cash for the dynatrac I'd probably do it, but then again, all that automatic stuff is much cooler. (till it stops working when you need it most)
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From: iowa
Kwik it would be fairly easy to switch over to manual, you need the warn hubs as you described, I have already done that to mine and plugged the vac lines off, I think this is a good idea anyway as from what my testing so far is showing those vac lines maybe part of the if not all of hte problem with the "sealed" unit bearings going out (I think from what I seen on my truck the vacumn applyied to the back side of the bearing to activate thehubs is sucking the grease around the oring seal on teh bearing, removed the vacumn and my bearings quit lossing grease), next you need the tcase, trans adaptor, lever and boot, and if you can get it the trans tunnel from a truck that stuff came from, then just swap it over. From what I can tell it would cost you more to convert your current tcase to manual the buying one form the junk yard by about double.
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From: Rio Rico, AZ.
Originally Posted by Powerkleen
PS> How many of you are guilty (I AM) of walking to the back of the truck to unhook the trailer and then walking back up and opening the back door on the crewcab and looking for the steering wheel to pull yourself in and then feeling like and idiot. I now leave the drivers door open to prevent this.
Monsterbaby aren't the transfer cases the same except for the way it's controlled? You can't just get the lever and hardware from a wreck in the junkyard, remove the vacuum solinoid and install the lever? (after you cut the hole in the tunnel of course.)
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From: iowa
I will have to look again but I don't think the adaptor has the hole drilled and tapped for the lever bolt. and the case is different for the manual ones vs the electric shift on the fly units. plus if I am not mistaken the linkage is actually different way of activating. I know it can be done but I am pretty sure you have to replace the case half.
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From: Rio Rico, AZ.
Originally Posted by monsterbaby
I will have to look again but I don't think the adaptor has the hole drilled and tapped for the lever bolt. and the case is different for the manual ones vs the electric shift on the fly units. plus if I am not mistaken the linkage is actually different way of activating. I know it can be done but I am pretty sure you have to replace the case half.
