87 ford f350
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87 ford f350
My grandfather just gave me his old 87 ford f350 rollback with a 6.9 engine, it has a few bad glow plugs, but cranks after a few tries. So i'm not worried about it. It has over 300,000 miles on it and still runs like a tank. My question is what is the life span of these engines? He took real good care of the truck.
Next it is a rollback, and the bed still works good. But the bed is a little slow to me. I see it has a outside throttle cable on the bed to speed it up. I traced the cable but its not hooked up. Can someone please tell me where can I hook it to, or how is it supposed to be hooked up?
Next it is a rollback, and the bed still works good. But the bed is a little slow to me. I see it has a outside throttle cable on the bed to speed it up. I traced the cable but its not hooked up. Can someone please tell me where can I hook it to, or how is it supposed to be hooked up?
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any motor that can make it 200K can make a million, just keep up with the maintenance and ahead of the repairs and know even if you have to do a rebuild in a couple years you'll still have less into it than a few months of payments on a newer truck, the idea that cars and trucks have a particular lifespan is pushed on us by the automakers who want to sell more new vehicles.
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Next it is a rollback, and the bed still works good. But the bed is a little slow to me. I see it has a outside throttle cable on the bed to speed it up. I traced the cable but its not hooked up. Can someone please tell me where can I hook it to, or how is it supposed to be hooked up?
Rather than having the cable outside in the elements, you could also hook one up that goes into the cab. Set it when you engage the PTO, and hop out to run the deck.
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Which is better switch or the cable, or better yet which is more reliable. I dont want it idle 2 too high. Just enough for a lil more speed.
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From: Faibanks Ak.
If you live inthe rust belt I would rather have the solenoid than a cable.
The fast idle will not be real fast I think about the most I have heard of is about 1100 and it was modified, you will more than likely just get in the 900 rpm range.
The fast idle will not be real fast I think about the most I have heard of is about 1100 and it was modified, you will more than likely just get in the 900 rpm range.
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From: Faibanks Ak.
The fast idle selonoid is on the passenger side of the pump. All you have to do is unhook the wire to it and run a new hot wire to it via a manual toggle switch.
If you want it for some reason to still be automatic use a double through switch with a hot wire running to one side and the original wire from the temp switch to the other side and the wire to the selonoid to the center. then if you flip the switch to the hot side it works manually, if you leave it switched to the other side it will work when the motor is cold. No danger to the motor or the electronics.
If you want it for some reason to still be automatic use a double through switch with a hot wire running to one side and the original wire from the temp switch to the other side and the wire to the selonoid to the center. then if you flip the switch to the hot side it works manually, if you leave it switched to the other side it will work when the motor is cold. No danger to the motor or the electronics.
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Depends how you wire the switch up, the way mine is done I did use a diode, but if you cut the solenoid wire close to its plug and then wire it up like in that diagram you found then you do not need a diode.
That would work just fine, you basically extend your current solenoid feed wire into the cab and to the switch and then run another wire from the switch back to the solenoid, twist these two together along the way to make a neater harness.