Gary Lewis

So THAT'S where you've been! Have missed you. But glad you finally got to go. And can't wait for the trail reports. As for the Grand Canyon, I think you missed an option for things to do there: ride the mules down & back. What a way to spend two days and see the river where you pointed that black arrow. Oh, and to see Bright Angel Trail as we came back that way. Boy were we tired then. Yes, it is a huge hole in the ground. But from the bottom looking up it is unbelievable. To think that water did all of that. And to feel the temp difference from the South Rim to the river is hard to fathom as well. Anyway, I look forward to more pics and more of the report.

Look in the 2nd pic I posted - the one with the forklift stickers ghosted to the Left of where they actually are. Here it is with some of the ghosts marked: http://supermotors.net/getfile/1154337/original/ggghostss.jpg There are none in the top ~15% of the pic (like the top sticker), and they wrap around to the Right ~15% (like the dumpster SN). Steve - Well spotted! I've gone back to the original pic from Scotty and they aren't there. So I saved this one w/o any other processing. Let's see what's there.... I don't see any artifacts. Do you? What I didn't do was to lighten the pic. Notice how much darker this one is than the other version? I wonder if that's it?

Yep, the choke only closes as far as you set it. And the spec's on setting it are here: http://www.garysgaragemahal.com/carter-yfa-1bbl.html

1987's have round wheelwell openings, so I doubt they'll work correctly.

The Master Cross Reference List for 1985 says: And this snippet from Suspension & Steering/Front Suspension shows those to be the right spring seats for an 82 to 86 F-Series 2wd truck built after 4/82.

We’ve moved all 500+ pages, and those that don’t use the widgets are fine. I’m sure they could be better given all the capabilities of Wordpress, but I happy with just moving over one-for-one. Then we can upgrade later if we want. Anyway, I’m leaning to your thinking of move and then fix. 👍

Oops, meant to say that there are several products that can help a bunch with the fender liners. One is SEM black plastic paint. But be sure and read the use instructions as it requires cleaning and surface prep.

BJ - You can reply to any and all of the other posts. Your choice, although it is usually thought that responding to everyone's post aimed at you is the most polite way of doing it. And you can either reply to each post individually, by clicking the "reply" button on that post which then tells us to which post your replying. Or, you can get fancy and reply in one post to each one. And one way of doing that is by mentioning the name/handle of the person to whom you are replying. So a reply to several might look like: But there's no set way of doing it. To each his/her own.

Ok, I'm trying to think through a game plan. And one thing that appears to be highly likely is that pages using Weebly's widgets, like tabs and buttons, won't come across correctly. (The jury is still out on that one, but I'm pretty sure that's going to be their verdict.) So the question becomes whether to take the widgets out before the migration or fix the pages after.I've thought of a couple of issues, but I'm sure there are more:Content: If we "fix" the pages before the migration the content will come across where it wouldn't, or doesn't appear to do, if the tabs/buttons are left in. On the other hand, as long as we've not cut over we'll have the Weebly site to refer to and figure out what the content should be. So, in some ways it might be better to fix the pages afterward 'cause we we might be able to use the power of Wordpress to create the pages in a better fashion. Editors: In Weebly I'm the only editor, and to have more requires we spend money to upgrade plans. But in Wordpress it looks like we could have several editors. So if we fix the pages after the migration we could spread the work out - assuming we had others with the skills willing to do it.So, over to y'all. What other issues or thoughts are there regarding the order of doing things?

I've added you to the map. Used to live just out of Wilmington, DE and know what you mean about the neighbors. And with Halloween coming up you don't want to risk that. As for the mud flaps/splash guards, we have several on here who are adept at finding things. One, David/1986F150Six, is not on over the weekends, but he'll be back on Monday and I'm sure he'll use his talents to look for those. As many others may as well.

Are you using the schematic here? Documentation/Electrical/EVTM/1981 EVTM/Power Door Locks. As shown below. You should be able to pull Connector 1958 apart, or any of the many others, and hit the pink/orange wire with ground and the pink/black wire with FUSED power and get the lock to go one way. Then reverse the leads and make it go the other.

Chris - There's LOTS of research to be done. Themes, plugins, you name it. And thanks for the places to look, I'll follow up on them. I've done a bit of playing with the test site. For instance, I uploaded the 46Mb Four Wheelin' brochure in pdf to the site's media section and then embedded it below the same file saved on OneDrive. Both were embedded the same way using iframes. And then I viewed the page. The file from OneDrive loaded in a second or so, but the file from the Dreamhost site took MANY seconds. So I downloaded and installed the PDF Embedder plugin that supposedly does things "better" and doesn't use iframes. Then I embedded the Four Wheelin' file below the 2nd instance and viewed the page. Again the iframed file on OneDrive was by far the fastest, and the PDF Embedder file was 2nd. But the iframed-Dreamhost file took forever. The hope was that locally-hosted files wouldn't be found in media storage when Google crawled the site but would be on the page. Gonna have to think about this a bit. I know we are also going to need a backup plugin. And I'm sure there are plenty of others. But at least those things are available on Wordpress. They aren't on Weebly.

Copper tubing is better, it will not rust out and is easier to bend. Poor man headers ... EFI manifolds If you need to run pre-heat to the air filter you can make the tin from sheet metal and/or tin cans to catch the heat and use the paper hose up to the filter housing like stock. I have not done this and don't know if I will have to only time will tell. Dave ---- Thanks, Dave.

Yes, you can run heat to the carb with a header. Use some of the soft tubing Jim talks about for brake or fuel line, and wrap it around the header two or three turns. That'll warm the air up in the tube quite nicely. You might want to put some insulation on the return, but it'll work.

I think 3 YF's would be too much carburetion. Adapters could be made to put a little progressive 2bbl on the YF mounting flange, and you'd run on 2 or 3 little 1bbl carbs until the velocity was high enough to pull in the secondaries.

I'm pretty sure the ECU didn't control the choke. Nothing I can find in the EVTM shows the ECU doing that. But in the YF/YFA R&R info from the factory shop manual they show a hot air fitting and then talk about an electric assist choke. So you should have a tube that goes from the carb to the exhaust manifold that takes filtered air from the air cleaner, and then another tube that takes hot air from the exhaust manifold up to the carb. But, by now many of those have rusted off. I've been successful running the choke as an electric choke. So you could try that. There should be connections on the choke housing for at least power, and probably ground. Originally the chokes were powered by the stator connection from the alternator. This gives about 7 volts, and it may work for you. If not you could use a relay to put battery voltage on it when the engine is running - and a Bosch relay can be pulled in with the stator output. But the best is to replace the tube(s) going to the exhaust manifold.

By golly, Ray, I think you are right! They show on Page 15 on the 1981 Accessories Catalog, and here are the part numbers from the catalog:

I've not done one on the 300 six, but I remove the fan and the shroud, pull the mount bolts, and put a jack on the dampener on the front of the crank. Raise the engine gently while watching for things that bind. Sometimes the exhaust has to be loosened if not removed. Sometimes a valve cover hits the firewall. But get it as high as you can and then figure out how to block it for safety. Sometimes 2x4 chunks between the mounts and the frame work.

What is this trip odometer you speak of?...lol. Since I travel a lot with my work (and get paid mileage for it), I'm used to taking a picture of my odometer before and after so I've been doing the same with my Bullnose. I saves me from having to write it down The tach clusters are the way to go, if for nothing else than the trip odo. I really love that feature.

Ouch! Glad it missed the teeth. Skin grows back. Hope things go well today. Will be watching for the report tonight.

Bummer! Glad you were close to a petrol station and got some easily. But the lesson has been learned, I'm sure.

Thanks, Chris. I'll read the info in the links tomorrow. Too much computing and I'm ready for bed now. But this post is coming to you from a Wordpress site.

Fortunately we don't have too many Scribd pdf viewers, and those we do have can be converted to embedded iframes. As for this forum, I've tried several ways to embed it, all to no avail. But I'm working with my friend on the Nabble support forum and I'm hoping he can crack it. But this one is critical, so I need to make it happen before we get much farther. Well, while both of us were watching baseball Chris/ckuske fixed the forum. Just like that! The issue was that I had put an HTTP forum on an HTTPS site, and ne'er the twain shall meet. He turned the S off, and away we went. In fact, I just posted on the This Looks Cool thread from that site. So now the concept has been proven. It is possible to migrate the website, meaning the documentation portion, to Wordpress. And it is possible to embed the forum in it. The only thing we now need to figure out is whether we've done the migration and want to spend the time cleaning it up. Or, much more likely, we want to have it migrated by someone that has done it a few times. I still haven't heard from CMS2CMS so that may not happen. But WPBeginner says they'll do it for free if we go with one of their hosting partners. And one of those is BlueHost, which has good rates and comes out on top of the list in a review I read. So Monday when the WPBeginner folks come back to work I'll talk with them more about what we'll get if we go with them on the migration. And if CMS2CMS should call, I'll check them out as well. Onward and upward!

Jonathan - I'm sure glad you posted those pics 'cause they are highly likely to go away at some point. And then people won't know what we were talking about. As for those two trucks, I could get into the red and while one, but I don't think I could do the Free Wheelin' truck. Maybe if I saw it in person. And, by the way, this post is from the new "test" website over on ckuske's wordpress site. He's the MAN!

That really is cool! It yells OLD SCHOOL. I do like the wheels. I'd be torn if I ran across a set for Big Blue like that. They'd look boss, but might not fair as well as the steelies that are on him for overlanding.