Gary Lewis

It has been a while since I updated this thread. Meanwhile, lots of scanning has been going on. Here's some of what's been done. These pages have been added to the Interchange pick in the menu: A/C Interchange Brake Interchange Diesel Injector Pump Interchange Distributor Interchange Starter Interchange Steering Interchange Water Pump Interchange Window Lift Motor Interchange These pages have been added to the Literature/1981 Literature section: 1980 Truck Service Highlights - Chassis: 1980 Truck Service Highlights - Electrical: This one is very interesting as it shows how to remove and install the ignition switch shows the difference between the early/carryover headlight switch that had an internal circuit breaker vs the later switch; has a discussion of the digital clock and how to operate it; how the CB radio is to be installed and how to operate it; and even how to install the speed control system.

Got a bit more done. And, along the way I realized that in some things the listings for the cars could be a help. For instance, the window lift motors for the trucks were used in some cars. So, I've started scanning the car sections as well. A/C: The air conditioning section now has the car lists for clutches, compressors, and compressors with a clutch, so is now complete Distributors: The truck listings are there, but not the car listing yet Window Lift Motors: Added the car listing to the truck listing, so this section is complete

Angelo and Jonathan are using their Bullnose trucks, and I thought it was too cold to take Big Blue today so got Blue out of the garage. Gotta get BB out a bit more. 'Tis supposed to warm up in a couple of days so think I'll do just that.

Nice truck! Man, that's clean! I added it to my "Research" on eBay.

Thought y'all might like to see this preview of the upcoming My Classic Car episode featuring a Pantera with a TMeyer engine. It'll be on Feb 9th and I'm gonna record it!

I grant that it says E4TZ 9030-B and "7.5L Only", but it isn't in the '94 version of the MPC.

OH MY GOODNESSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! $1500?????????????????? Anyway, the pics are saved, as shown below. But, is there a better place on the website in which to preserve them?

WOW!!!!

Yes. I assumed that with a CA tag it would have CA emissions. Probably hard, if not impossible, to get a 49-state truck to pass CA emissions. So it'll have lots of "stuff" on it.

Yep, that's the right one for '82-86.

Very nice!

You are moving all your "stuff" to the new place? Is that Exploder an engine donor or??? What does the camper go on? So many questions.

Steve - I don't have a problem OCR'ing things. In fact, at the moment I have three applications loaded that will do it: Foxit, the app I've had for several years and the one that OCR'd the MPC; ABBYY Finereader which I have on a 30-day trial; and Adobe Acrobat DC, supposedly the king of kings and which is on a 7-day trial. But it looks like Foxit will be the winner given a few problems encountered with the others and the fact that they are $300 and up. Instead, Foxit is paid for and does a good, albeit not perfect, job. And, it runs the scanner very nicely, creating nicely-straightened and OCR'd results in one go. Concerning the page, as you know we aren't displaying pictures of text for the TSB's, nor much of anything that we are doing going forward. Instead we are using pdf's that have the text searchable. Last night I was discussing this with Keith Dickson, Mr FORDification, and he told me that he's been searching for years for a way to do "this", meaning get the search engines to find things like TSB's. But, he's ruled out using HTML, basically for the same reason I have just now - nothing does the conversion well and it takes way too much time to edit the results - and editing results in HTML is not my forte, nor desire. But, having the pages in HTML certainly would be nice. Those misshapen HTML pages I put up last night have already been found and you can find "D5TA 1000-BA" on the website as of this morning. So one option would be to put both the pdf and the misshapen HTML on the page. The pdf would give the user a clean view of the TSB, and the HTML would be found by the search engines. To test that theory I searched for "Rear Spring Squeak - Tip Liner And", which is a phrase that's in TSB 80-1-12-S REAR SPRING SQUEAK. Sure enough, even though that TSB has been in place for a week or so the search engines haven't found it - because it is actually a file that resides elsewhere with a link to it from the page, even though it looks like it is on the page. And now I've added the Adobe version of HTML for that TSB to the bottom of the page and have asked Google to crawl and index the page. So in a few hours we should be able to find anything on that TSB with a Google search, and later we'll be able to find it with other search engines as well. So please take a look and see what y'all think of doing it that way. It is ugly as the formatting is all wrong, there's an image missing, and so on. But it should work. THOUGHTS?

Peter - Welcome! As for others in Canada, the answer is yes. You can see that on the member's map. (Bullnose Forum/Member's Map.) And I'd be happy to add you to it if you'd like. Just give me a town/city. Nice truck. And interesting plans. Is the '94 an automatic? It'll surely be EFI, so are you planning on swapping it to a carb? Yes, it should be fun. Be sure to start a thread in the main section so you can document and we can follow your "fun".

I'm struggling with how best to present information on the website, and wonder if any of y'all have suggestions. First, my goal with the website is to make it the premier Bullnose documentation site in the world. Certainly not for my glory or gain, but to help our fellow Bullnosians. (Or, is that Bullnosers? ) But, in order to help our friends they need to find the site. However, in order to find the site Google needs to know about it. And therein lies the problem - Google doesn't read the words in pictures, and many of our ~550 pages are pictures of words. And pdf's don't really work either. So I've been trying to convert pdf's into HTML as I've been told that Google will find HTML - although I've yet to prove that's the case. And I'm not at all happy with the results. But, you can be the judge of that by going to Driveline/Wheel Covers and looking at these tabs, going to the right: Pin To ID # Cross-Ref: This tab has two forms of the wheel cover cross-reference table from the MPC. Up top is a screenshot of the table, which is a picture of words/numbers. Try to highlight some of them and copy them. Nope, no dice. But on the bottom is a pdf of the document, and you can copy those numbers. In fact, you can hit the Full Screen icon on the bottom right and pop it out into a new browser window and search it. Or, you can download it. But, Google won't find it. Cross-Ref Foxit: This tab shows an HTML version of the table that was generated by my pdf editor, Foxit. Compare it to the previous tab. Not very good. But, you can search it by hitting Cntl-F. However, for whatever reason the software decided that the prefix, like "D5TA" needed to be in a different box than the rest of the part number, so you can't find "D5TA 1000-BA" because there are extra characters in there. Cross-Ref ABBYY: This HTML was generated by ABBYY Finereader, which is software that I've downloaded for a 30-day trial, and which is fairly expensive should I decide to buy. The code is better than the Foxit code since the whole part number was kept together. In fact, you can search for and find "D5TA 1000-BA". But the headers for the columns aren't where they should be, and if it does that on a small table like this what'll it do on a 30-page file?. PDF Online: This is an on-line service that was supposed to be good. But the headers are messed up, it didn't convert the whole table, and you can't find "D5TA 1000-BA", in spite of it being there in plan sight. Cross-Ref Adobe: This was generated by the much-heralded Adobe Acrobat program, which I've downloaded for a 7-day trial, and which is very expensive should I decide to buy. And the headers are messed up, there appear to be a couple of images missing, and you cannot find "D5TA" anything because it has translated it as "DSTA"! I'm at my wit's end. Nothing I can find can convert a fairly simple pdf into accurate HTML. Am I doing something wrong? Is there better software out there? Is there a better approach? Am I tilting at windmills? Or perfecting ways of making sealing wax? If you can help, please do. All suggestions appreciated.

Short day. Added the A/C compressors, with and without clutch to the A/C Interchange page. Then Chris' Diesel Injector page. And the Window Lift Motor page. Last, the Water Pump page. And, while those 76 pages might seem like a light day, please give me credit for an overhaul on the Wheel Covers page, as 'splained on the Center Caps thread.

Rick - Turns out some of what you mentioned might be in the MPC. After updating my version of the catalog as explained above I was perusing it and came to the realization that it says different things different places about what center cap was used. Anyway, instead of taking screen shots of the new catalog entries I extracted the 32 pages for the wheel covers from the catalog and embedded them on the Driveline/Wheel Covers page. And, while I was at it I played with saving the cross-reference table in HTML and embedding it. Take a look, please.

It might be rare, but it doesn't show in the catalog. The closest is E1TZ 13341-B and -D. So it was superseded by one or the others of those. And while I could find out by going to the "microfiche tower", I'll pass. Personally I'd rather have the later part, which probably was issued to fix a known problem.

I did actually order one, and it turns out that it is an absolute waste of money because I'm gutting all of the EFI stuff anyway. I'm pulling the body off the frame starting this weekend. Going to try and get the motor, trans, t-case out of it as well. I have a couple questions though Steve that you might be able to help with: This thing is an 85 5.0L (EFI). Were the 5.0 blocks in '85 roller cam capable? My 1984 5.0L was definitely not. I know the Mustangs went roller in 1985 (I think), but the trucks still stayed with flat tappet cams into the 1990's, but with roller capable blocks. I just don't know what/when the changeover was. In any case, no big deal, I'll know as soon as I pop the intake off it. This thing is an auto (AOD). Would the existing starter work on a manual trans? I seem to recall reading somewhere that the auto and manual trans trucks had different starters. Is this the case or am I nuts? Name's not Steve, but I can answer the starter question: No. Auto transmissions took a different starter than manual trannies for several of the engines, including the "small blocks". You can see that in Engines/Starters and in Interchange/Starter Interchange.

Rick - Thanks. But where'd you find that stuff?

Update & Conclusion: David/1986F150Six provided me with a link to a Rear Counter (the Ford dealer parts outfit) page that says that D7TZ-1130-K is a "HUB CAP - BLACK / RED CENTER PLASTIC (7.125" DIA)". So that proves what Rick was saying. So here's what the truth appears to be, and I'll update the catalog to reflect it. (The UPPER CASE ITALICS are mine: E2TZ 1130-C 7 1/8" diameter-chrome w/red center ornament - use on forged alum. 15x6 wheel-rear E2TZ 1130-D 7 1/8" diameter-CHROME W/NO ORNAMENT - use on forged alum. 15x6 wheel-w/hole-front D7TZ 1130-L 7 1/8" diameter-black W/NO center ornament for styled wheels-front wheels D7TZ 1130-K 7 1/8" diameter-BLACK W/red center ornament for styled wheels-rear wheels Thanks to David and Rick for the help.

You're the only one there looking at it - if YOU don't think it's worth the effort, go with that. If (after you've knocked out all the things HIGHER on your list of priorities) you feel some need to add them, that's fine, too. But don't put a bunch of time/effort into sections that aren't beneficial. Ok, in the light of day I've discovered a few glitches. Somehow Weebly gave the new pages for starters and brakes the same URL/address as previous pages. And, I'd mis-typed the link to starters and it was point to air conditioning. So I've renamed the pages and fixed the links - I hope. Grumpin - Thanks. Steve - Good advice. We shall see what gets scanned today.

Excellent!

I get a battery reading when I turn to key to accessory position prior to ignition. My second plank question in 72 hours: The original ammeter "voltage" comes from the alternator, correct? Anything tapped after the voltage regulator is not battery voltage either? (That's 2 plank questions) One more question- if tapping at the fuse box, would that tell me if my voltage regulator was going bad if I see a bunch of bouncing at the gauge, or a consistent "over-voltage" in excess of 14.5? (plank hat trick! I'm opening my EVTM when I get home) Yes, you should get the battery's voltage when you turn the key to Run. It'll be a bit less than with everything turned off as the ignition, at the very least, will be on. But, it doesn't pull much. As for #2, the ammeter is seeing essentially battery voltage. So when Ron used the lead from the shunt, the original lead to the ammeter, it'll be pretty close to battery voltage. Now, for the swinging voltage, there really shouldn't be much change at the fuse box except for when accessories are turned on and off. But Ford used pretty small wiring, so there is an appreciable voltage drop from the battery to the fuse box. However, it should not swing back and forth. That might be a sign of a bad voltage regulator. But voltage can go to something like 14.7 volts in cold conditions when the battery is a bit low. However, it should come back to about 14.4 when things warm up.

No, but do you have a pic?