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    Leaf Spring Torque

    Go to general spring website and it will have a torque spec sheet according to size, good luck to you
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    Detroit Diesel!

    Can’t do anything but agree with you on the price aspect, but when I hit a snag I was always able to talk to someone and 9 outa 10 times it usually worked and they are really a good medium to heavy duty motors a buddy of mine has two of on his boat and he swears by em, I always tell him you’re...
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    Detroit Diesel!

    3208 Cat motors are tricky Sob’s got to have all the right tools to work on those I still have quite a few of those specialty tools when I worked on those as well as the 8.2’s
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    Detroit Diesel!

    For as many of the 8.2 Detroit motors that are in just about every school bus and medium duty trucks that they’re in you’d think GM would have engineered a beefier block, who knows way above our pay grade stay safe Bucket
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    Detroit Diesel!

    We had a number of the 8.2 GM fuel pinchers in a some bobtail and stake body trucks where I worked in the 80’s and 90’s they were prone to backfires and when they did it would shear the pin for the camshaft gear and the cam bearings would spin and the 8.2’s blocks are non-serviceable meaning you...
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    1977 C10 Rear speakers??

    Retro manufacturing, classic car stereos and a few others I really don’t remember who I got mine from, I googled retro style stereos for 73-87 Chevy trucks, good luck on your search
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    1977 C10 Rear speakers??

    Go with the retro style Am/fm stereo, I put one in my 75 C10 and it sounds great, I put the stereo speaker in center of the dash and behind the seat corners with the 6 1/2 speakers, couldn’t be happier
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    New speakers in stock locations?

    Been a while but I bought a set of cab corner that were for 6 1/2” speakers from EBay, I thought they were reasonably priced, haven’t seen them advertised for a while now, good luck to your search
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    fuel venting

    My 75 C10 has a 2 port one for fuel and 2nd to charcoal canister on the radiator support on the driver side guessing that is the vent, good luck to you
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    Switching to dumbo mirrors

    I used rivet nuts, they make aluminum ones with the steel thread and the brackets that go in the doors can pivot left or right I just did mine, let me know if you need a picture with the measurements I’ll send it to you
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    LED Shop Lights That Last??

    I put the double row led’s in all of my old fixtures after removing the ballast, I bought em online from Prime lights or lighting over 4years ago and have yet had to change one of them fwiw, good luck to you
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    Most Hated- That's the rumor.

    I love em, although years ago when my son was touring colleges, his friend which I knew pretty well decided to give the horns on his tricked out Yukon a blow and within seconds he got a ticket for the local noise ordinance, I talked to him after and he said it was worth it, he scared the sh!t...
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    Two owner flatbed

    Great looking truck and you can haul just about anything you want
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    New here from ponchatoula,La

    Welcome, you will love this forum, I live in Ponchatoula also great place to live we moved here after Katrina, wished I would’ve done it a long time ago, if I can help you out with anything let me know
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    fuel venting

    I understand the whole process but just wanted to ask if you just added the charcoal inside the glass filter housing around the center threaded with the filter screen inside or is there something I might be missing because the center that the filter ends screw onto doesn’t leave a lot of room...
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