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Originally Posted by Anafiel
(Post 10032246)
II'll put it back in tomorrow after I get the new float and roll-over valve.
wire inside... that wire eventually wears through and breaks.... |
Thanks FTE
Just finished doing a DSII ignition swap the other day, the truck has never run better.:-drink
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How long did it last??
Originally Posted by Anafiel
(Post 10032218)
Napa used to have good copper cores. Last one I got there was a cheap aluminum one.
Probably made in Mexico too. |
Originally Posted by BMcT
(Post 10032153)
Sooo...I'm on my way in to work today when I noticed that familiar smell of antifreeze in the cab. I just replaced my heater core back in December and two thoughts run through my mind, "I just replaced that thing" and since I'm still 15 miles from work, "Lord, I hope I make the rest of the way into work without any problems". I glanced at the temperature gauge and it was still within the "normal" range, high end of it but holding steady. Arrived into the station to find antifreeze dripping from the passenger side undercarriage and condensation on the inside of windshield. No leaks on floorboard or from heater core connections under hood. So, when I had some down time between running calls I bypassed the heater core, filled radiator with water and ran engine to operating temperature. Everything seems to be ok. Now when I get off work Friday and get home that HC is going back to NAPA!!!
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Originally Posted by dohc_chump
(Post 10033671)
My truck ate three of those new aluminum heater cores in two years. I finally got smart and put in an original brass heater core out of my '85 Bronco... not a single problem since. :rolleyes:
Is there any place to buy a (new) copper/brass heater core any longer?? I don't want to have to change these things on the same schedule I change my oil. |
Floorpan
I did this repair about a month ago, I think I FINALLY figured out how to post pictures... Here goes nothing!
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Thanks, I edited it, afaik, I did exactly the same thing the second time and it worked.
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Man, I'm glad I won't have to go through this crap (floor & rocker replacement), I found a really
nice cab in a JY a few months ago and took it home for $175. I lucked out, it's pretty rare to find nice sheet metal of this vintage in Colorado.... About the picture posting stuff, yeah, one way to do it is as Anafiel offered, copy and paste the IMG stuff. |
I did that whole flor repair in a day, wasnt even a long day's work, without air tools.I know its not show quality by any means but it should hold up well enough. You wouldnt believe how much quieter it is in the cab now. I've been trying off and on to add to my gallery but uploads wouldn go... then I saw Ctubutis' post that the galleries are read only and new stuff goes to albums. I got some exhaust pics to upload but couldnt get these to. I finally did the photbucket thing like everyone suggested and it seems to work.
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Yeah, picture uploading to FTE seems to be a problem at the moment, there's a fair amount
of grumbling going on in the Mods forum but the admins tell us they're investigating. I just found out last night I may have been misled by the admins about the galleries being read-only, so that statement I made earlier shouldn't be treated as gospel. ;) On that note, I created a brand-new gallery under my username, it appeared I had successfully uploaded pictures to it, but the pictures aren't there. :( Paying members trying to attach pix directly to posts sometimes works, sometimes doesn't. *sigh* The photobucket (or some external hosting provider) route seems to be the most reliable option right now. I have never welded a single thing in my life, doing what you did would take me a week and it'd look like sh33t....... |
Originally Posted by ctubutis
(Post 10035977)
I have never welded a single thing in my life, doing what you did would take me a week and it'd look like sh33t....... |
I have to do that repair on my truck as well. Only difference is that it is on the driver's side. I temp. fixed the sound problem by just throwing some extra dynamat I had lying around at it. Looking forward to actually fixing it though. I have to take a pretty big step over into the cab to get up in.
I am also curious about the old brass heater cores. I believe mine will be needing replacement soon, and don't want to have to be doing it constantly. |
Yeah, I've got a couple of holes in my driver's side floor too. Nothing really extreme, but they're holes nonetheless.
Shifting gears for a moment, I changed my oil today and found that I've got a major oil leak somewhere. I drained the oil, and only about a quart and a half came out. I change my oil every three months almost religiously, and in three months' time, I somehow lost a three and a half quarts, even though over the past three months, I've added a quart twice a month. I don't think I'm burning it, there's absolutely no smoke from my exhaust or coming from under the hood (that I can tell). I'm thinking it's a bad oil pan gasket, as my oil pan is covered in oil, even though I had it replaced about six months ago. Perhaps a bad valve cover gasket. Or maybe something else. Only way I can think of to tell where it's coming from is to clean the engine and find the leak. So that's my project for the week. Oh, on a lighter note, I added a bottle of Sea Foam to my gas tank, so hopefully she'll be a little cleaner on the inside. |
I had to replace my passenger side pan too lol. Its actually not even bad. But I am still going to replace.
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