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Gary Lewis

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  1. Sorry, didn't see your numbers for some reason before I posted.
  2. As close as I can get, but there was no option for DRW.
  3. I put those side-by-side so you could compare the curves, but I realize they are hard, if not impossible, to read, so here they are full sized. Here's Dad's: Here's Big Blue:
  4. Just a bit more info: It looks like I'll probably not only insure Big Blue with American Modern Insurance Group, but also Dad's truck. As part of that process I was trying to figure out the value of Dad's truck so I used Hagerty's site again. And I was struck by the different curves for values of Dad's truck vs Big Blue and thought you might be similarly surprised. Dad's truck, meaning a 1981 F150 RCLB 4WD automatic w/a 351M on the left and Big Blue, meaning a 1985 F250 RCLB 4WD manual w/a 460, on the right:
  5. Good eye, David! I missed them. Or at least "it" as we don't know what's on the other side.
  6. Wow! Your vehicles take a BEATING! Even the bumpers rust through, much less the sheet metal.
  7. You are now on the map. But why can't you stay? Are they coming to take you away?
  8. Wonderful! Man, that would be such a huge bummer to get that far and have to go back and rework something.
  9. My M5OD-R2 trans came out of what I considered to be light duty F250. It was a 1991 F250 2wd with 302, 5spd, and 3.08 diff. I've told the story before, but the guy was doing a Cummins swap in the truck, so he had the engine and trans for sale...but since the truck was an F250, he had the trans listed for sale as a ZF5. He said people kept messaging him to tell him the trans he had was not a ZF5, so he relisted it as the M5OD, and that is when I found it...only a half a mile away from my office, right here in the industrial park. Yep, the non-HD F250's had a lighter duty driveline. I was not aware of that until I got Big Blue and noted the HD designation. Then I started looking for the LD's.
  10. Yes, good you found it. And changing the speedo drive gear on a 1345 is easy as well. Just remember to tighten the output shaft nut.
  11. Well done, Bill! As Jim said, you are going to have a cool drop-top cruiser one of these days.
  12. Jim - If you have a link I probably can post it.
  13. You are now on the map. And you live in a beautiful part of the country.
  14. Didn't look that far, Bill. But I do remember that from before.
  15. There was like 5 coats of house paint on them. I'll give the brake cleaner a try. I'll try carb cleaner too. My experience is that the O'Reilly's house brand brake cleaner is serious stuff, but some other brands just don't "cut" it.
  16. David - My first thought as I was reading your post, before I got to the bottom, was that you have a ground problem. Then I saw where you cleaned the contacts and the ground connection, and seemingly it is working correctly. At least for now. It did that intermittently before, so do you think it will do that again?
  17. Cory - The answer is yes, there was a difference, as shown below. But the break is in question as this says a 3.55 ratio could have either a 8 or 7-toothed gear. Also, note that it is for a 1345, not a 1356. Oddly enough, the MPC doesn't list a 1356. Nor does it have a similar table for 1989. But, you can still use the same driven gears. You just may run out of available gears.
  18. That helped a lot, Jim. I have those TSBs and put them on tabs next to the FSM sections. See what you think now.
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