Gary Lewis

Wow! That's a TRUCK! Tell us more! Show us pics.

Gary when doing this from your phone I (we?) dont have that software and I know for me if I did would be a pain to try and use it and post the picture from phone to site. I cant load pictures to my site any more, they removed software needed to do so, and there is nothing to replace it. So if I take photo with phone I would need to save it to my computer then post to here. Oh I also switched from an old IE browser to Chrome. When I go to my side to look at or get pictures, some of them are turned sideways or blurred and cant make them out Dave ---- Dave - There are several free photo editing apps that will do it on a phone. I have Photoshop Express on my iPhone, but I know there are others. In fact, I think the native Apple photo viewer will rotate pics. And, I think each phone has an orientation that puts the pictures right side up. So if you don't want to rotate the pic after taking it then you could learn which way to hold the phone to take pics that will work. I wish the site had the option to rotate pics, and for a while I was in hopes we could add it. But I'm struggling just to get the site to run on the servers I'm paying for, so don't think fixing pictures is going to happen. Sorry.

They do sell a plate / cap for the older masters so you can pressure bleed the system. BTW that was the only way I could get a pedal. Dave ---- If I remember correctly the price of that plate to pressure bleed was more than a new later model master. And then you still have the individual reservoirs for front vs rear, which makes it easier to run out while you are pressure bleeding. Granted you have to go to the salvage and get an extra cap and gasket for the later master in order to make an adapter to pressure bleed it, but that's peanuts.

How did you post it? What buttons did you push? Here 'tis with "float" set to "none" and the text doesn't do anything strange. I find that it is when I try to float something other than "none" that the text gives me problems. But since the rotation is 90 degrees CCW on your pic when I post it I'm guessing you did something tricky? http://www.garysgaragemahal.com/uploads/6/5/8/7/65879365/thinking-26_orig.jpg

I think yes for manuals Would this be a tab in documents with Lit. or its own tab up front along with Lit.?I think what may be happening is things get to deep in some area and we dont "drill down" far enough to find what we need.So if we had say Documents as a main tab type deal and when in that area had a tab for Manuals and 1 for Lit. I think would be easier.I want to know how to do something or tq values then go to Manuals.Anything else to the Lit. area.Dave ----I think we need to think through this "literature" vs "manuals" thing. To me a manual is a piece of literature. Yes, brochures are literature and aren't manuals. But EVTM's and FSM can be considered literature. So manuals are a sub-set of literature. On that score, I've embedded below the spreadsheet from the page at Documentation/Literature that shows what literature I have and what is on the site. And it says we have "owner's guides", which is what Ford calls the owner's manuals. And we have EVTM's. And service guides. And engine & emission diagnosis manuals. And..... But currently we have the Literature section organized by year, which doesn't make much sense if you are looking for manuals. And while you can click on the Literature page and see that spreadsheet and then click on the On Site links to be taken to the document, you can also just over over Literature in the menu and see the years show up. And if you click on a year in the menu you'll be taken to a page with thumbnails of the documents, on which you can click to go to them. But, we could also categorize them by type, such as owner's manual; FSM; EVTM; etc. So, it could look like: Literature: Factory Shop Manuals Owner's Manuals Engine & Emission Diagnostic Manuals Brochures Etc Would that be better than sorting by year?

There's the beauty of the later master cylinder with the plastic reservoir. Holds much more and shares it between front and rear. Plus, it is easy to put 3 - 5 psi on it and pressure-bleed the system.

Great report! Can't wait for the rest of the reports! As for the idea of going over Loveland Pass in the snow, I'd say NO! Beed there, done that, was quite scared doing so. We did it west to east in a '69 Super Bee. Snowing HARD and the road was getting packed. As we were coming down the east side I looked several hairpins ahead/below and there was a little Dart with its right front hanging in the breeze. I remember distinctly reaching up and getting the shoulder harness and buckling it on. So I'm really glad the tunnel opened up before you had to go over the pass. And, glad the rest of the trip seems to have gone well. Looking forward to the next installments.

I doubt the master would make the pedal soft, unless it is leaking by pretty badly internally. If so, it would be time to replace it. Instead, I'm thinking you'll need to bleed the system more. And drive it and then bleed it. Sometimes there are air bubbles lodged in the system that don't want to come loose w/o bouncing.

I see "literature" as sales brochures, papers on tires that were in the glove box when new or adds from magazines and the like. owners manuals would be in with the shop manuals, it has manual on it no? Now where dose the dealer acc. sheets and towing pamphlet go? I think Literature. Dave ---- So you are voting for a Manuals section, Dave? (IOW, you'd vote the same as Dane???? )

My experience is that the bleeder valves leak at the thread and introduce air into the stream, creating bubbles. You might try packing a heavy grease around the base of the bleeder valve to seal it.

Interesting. Please tell us more. But, welcome to the forum. You may have missed the email I sent you, but you were to go to the New Members Start Here folder and introduce yourself before posting elsewhere. We ask new members to do that because we have the guidelines posted there and want to ensure everyone has had a chance to read them. So, have you read them?

We can have a Manuals section. But is a manual not "literature"? I'm not trying to be difficult, I'm just wanting to come up with a clean, logical solution.

I have not looked at any of this as I have not really needed it as someone posted what I needed information on but could it be done in the FSM way and when it comes to something that covers multi years like FSS have a link that would direct the person to the "all year" information? This way the information would only need to be posted 1 time and links made with in each year to point to it. There could a small a note* put on the FSM & FSS pages saying such "*spans multi years". Dave ---- Dave - I'm not sure how to incorporate your suggestion. Basically everything in the FSM should apply to all years save for some things like the YFA carb as it wasn't used in all years. So I'm not sure we need to say anything. Let's wait and see. And, for y'all to see, we now have the first three sections of the '85 manual on the site. PLEASE go check it out to see what you think. It is in the top level menu and should be easily seen, above. But here are some questions and comments I'd like you to consider: Location: Where should we put it? Right now we have a Literature section and a Reference section. Do we need another? (I hope not.) Can it go in Literature? Index: If you click on the top level, meaning 1985 Truck Shop Manual, you'll get Ford's wonky index. (Wonky because it is not in numeric order.) I've put some hyperlinks in there, but are they necessary? Why not just use the menu on the site instead? Levels: I've put non-clickable headers in the menu, like "Section 11 - Wheels & Tires", that pop out a sub menu when you hover over them. But some of you don't hover, so does that work for you? Jim?Can you see the lower-level things like General Wheel & Tire Service? Multiple Places: The documents that show up in Brakes are also embedded on the page at Documentation/Brakes. But that should not be a problem. It is the same info, but two different instances of it. Thoughts, please.

Yep, that was a good purchase. On the pics, you have to use editing software to properly orient them if you don't hold your camera just right. I used Photoshop on them.

Welcome! Glad you joined. However, you missed the email that asked you to post in the New Members Start Here folder to introduce yourself. The reason is that we have our guidelines posted there and want to ensure everyone has had a chance to see them 'cause we hold everyone to them. So, please assure me that you have? And, where's home? I ask because we have a map (Bullnose Forum/Member's Map in the menu) and could add you if we had a city/state or zip. As for the truck, let's post that pic here for all to see. (You might want to review the how-to on posting pics on the Bullnose Forum/Forum FAQ's page.)

Lucas - Thanks, and welcome. Glad it is helping. However, I saw a comment on FB the other day that said "I can't find anything on that site", so that got me worried. And thinking about how we could do it better. Then the diagnosis book caused a discussion, and here we are. But, as I think about it, there might not be all that much work to do to have one place for the FSM's to reside. There is no reason the various sections of the FSM can't continue to be embedded on tabs on the appropriate pages. For instance, the page at Documentation/Driveline/4WD FRONT HUBS & ROTORS has that FSM section embedded on the Instructions tab. So why not leave it there and also put it on the appropriate page w/in the FSM? In other words, I don't have to take things off pages or tabs, but I can slowly start building up an additional set of pages. Tell you what, I'm at a bit of burnout on working on Big Blue at the moment, so I'll give this a go this afternoon after church. I'll scan in the Contents pages of the '85 FSM and start creating the massive number of pages that will be needed to house that book. And on the pages that purport to have the content I've already scanned in, I'll embed that content and create a link to it on the Contents page. Which brings me to a completely different question: Where do we put these documents, like the FSM's, diagnosis, etc? Currently we have the Literature section (Documentation/Literature/...) but those pages are arranged by year. But things like FSS span pretty much all the years, even though the one being discussed is '85. Thoughts, please!

I know we had some discussion about this in the recent New Document Going On The Site - Engine & Emission Diagnosis thread, but I think we need a thread with a more fitting title to continue that discussion. Scott had suggested that we have whole documents together in one place, like we've done with the new 1986 Engine & Emissions Diagnosis book. (Which actually means we'd have a page for each section, not everything on one page.) However, we already have a number of factory service manual (FSS) sections scattered all over the site, so to put them all in one place would take considerable work - on my part and I'm the only one doing it. So, I have a suggestion on which I'd like your thoughts. That is to have a page called something like "1985 Factory Service Manual" and on that page we'd have the Contents page of the '85 FSS. And the Contents would have hyperlinks to each of the sections, as shown below for the '86 Engine & Emissions Diagnosis book. But, a downside of this is that many of the FSS sections are in tabs on the page to which the link would take you, so instead of the FSS section popping up when you click the link you'd then have to click on the Instructions or FSS Section tab. Before you answer look in the menu at how the 1986 Engine & Emissions Diagnosis book comes up. (Documentation/Emissions/1986 Engine & Emissions Diagnosis) See the loooooong list of sub-pages to the main page? Think of how many there would be for an FSS. Or, maybe we'd have to put the sub-sections in and have pages below them? Thoughts, please. We need better organization but I want to get everyone's opinion before we start down this pike.

I wish you could have come, John. Would be good to meet you and hang out. As Scott said as we parted, maybe in September?

Um.....noNot at all was Big Blue anywhere close to stock.And since these 250's came with a maximum 7" rim width I'm not even sure you you could begin to compare with whatever backset/offset his rims have.You're definitely going to need to start trimming fenders and adding lift when you get above 285.The 250 has an advantage there, because it only has an inch of suspension in front (stock)The suspension was stock, other than having Bilsteins. But the wheels weren't. And the 285's didn't come anywhere near rubbing with the stock suspension. So Reno will be fine with the right wheels. In fact, the wheels that are on his truck put the tires at probably the same place those on Big Blue are, so he should be fine with them. But with the white wheels he will have to determine backspacing and do some math. Here's a comparison, and that's a pic of Big Blue before the transformation with the D60.

I think it applies to F250s as well that you need a leveling kit or a lift kit for 33" or taller tires. Big Blue was effectively stock when I got him and he handled the 285/75R16's, which are 33" tires, just fine. No leveling nor lift kit, and no tire rubbing.

Don't think there's an idle air controller on a YFA. Those are for EFI.

Congrat's, Dave!!

Rusty - Don't miss that he has an F250, not a 150.

I hope you get him running again, easily and quickly. The sheet you found is a build sheet, and what little I know about this is on the page at Documentation/Specifications/Build Sheet Interpretation.