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  1. Disco

    Which clutch!?

    Hello all, it's been a while. I need help figuring out which clutch and flywheel I need for my truck. I don't have it out, and I don't want to play the return/exchange game. I'm letting a shop do the clutch job because I've only ever done a clutch once, it was nearly 20 years ago, it was on an...
  2. Disco

    I’m so smart

    I would sooner drive without rear brakes than deal with these drums again...
  3. Disco

    I’m so smart

    It took long enough that my brand new wheel cylinders are rusty. Lol
  4. Disco

    I’m so smart

    Believe me. It happened. There’s no pics because I was QUITE done with these drums. Disc conversion kit on the list of future things to do…
  5. Disco

    I’m so smart

    Yay!!! It only took six months, but I finally finished the rear brakes! Lol
  6. Disco

    I’m so smart

    Btw, y’all, I have looked. My Big10 does NOT have adjuster holes in either the backing plates or the drums, nor does it have un-punched holes. Solid plate, solid drum.
  7. Disco

    I’m so smart

    That actually helps a lot! Thanks! I use mnemonics like that all the time (over a decade wrenching and I still tell myself "righty-tighty"). These drums are a bigger PITA than I remember and than I have ever done. how do you stretch a spring you can't even flex?! You need to be an octopus to do...
  8. Disco

    I’m so smart

    Damn. My parts are brand new and don’t look that nice. Lol
  9. Disco

    I’m so smart

    Agreed. But there’s a caveat. Normally, I wouldn’t have opened both sides. When I bought the truck, the right rear brakes were completely frozen. The friction material was bonded to the drum by rust, and the process of pulling the drum off broke the hold-down pins, so the right rear was kind...
  10. Disco

    I’m so smart

    No. I’m the only person I know who is daft enough to express their love for disco music by embracing it as a nickname. Lol
  11. Disco

    I’m so smart

    I’ll have to take a picture of my backing plate. This was going to be my next question anyway. I’m pretty sure my drums have no inspection hole in them, and I don’t believe my backing plate does, either. I don’t remember seeing anything that resembles an inspection hole at all, which has been...
  12. Disco

    I’m so smart

    Yeah, I’m not sure what this thing is. I have 4 of them. They came with both the brake hardware kit (x2) and with each self-adjuster hardware kit.
  13. Disco

    I’m so smart

    A metal plug? Odd. Also, I don’t have an inspection hole in my backing plate. Maybe there’s one in the drum?
  14. Disco

    I’m so smart

    Also, could someone tell me where this goes? There isn’t one on the old hardware.
  15. Disco

    I’m so smart

    Hey. So dum-dum here started a brake job in MARCH, and due to needing to order more parts, a very busy second half of a semester after spring break, and an excruciatingly hot summer, I’m only just now getting back to it. I left everything organized, but I’m second guessing myself and how all...
  16. Disco

    Dual tank question

    I get you. I am not necessarily above dealing with inconvenience. Otherwise I would have gotten something new with an automatic transmission and air conditioning. I’m just planning ahead, weighing my options, because eventually (probably sooner than later) that valve will stop switching tanks...
  17. Disco

    Dual tank question

    My guess is if my truck had a charcoal canister (which I assume it did from the factory, mounted to the top of the inner fender beside the washer fluid reservoir), the original owner deleted it a long time ago, along with the frame mounted lines and the canister mounting bracket.
  18. Disco

    Dual tank question

    I just went out to the truck and looked. Sure enough, there are no lines or canisters on my frame rails. I don’t even see evidence there was ever any mounting brackets or anything. The only things near my steering box are my power steering lines from the pump to the box and the brake...
  19. Disco

    Dual tank question

    I’m not sure how this works as a replacement for the electronic selector valve. As far as my vapor lines go, they appear to just be attached to the filler neck. Please explain. I wasn’t even aware of the Big 10 sub-model before I bought this truck. But I assure you it has the F44 RPO code and a...
  20. Disco

    Dual tank question

    No, she’s a six foot bed SWB. I’m stuck with my dual 16 gallon tanks - unless I add one of those in-bed auxiliary tanks, which is unnecessary. 32 gallons with these gas prices is plenty. Lol
  21. Disco

    Dual tank question

    Yeah, I guess drawing from both tanks is like that “two straws” experiment (put one straw in a glass of water, leave the other out, try to draw through both at the same time). It’s good ol’ physics and the “path of least resistance” again. It’s easier to pull air than fuel, so if one tank goes...
  22. Disco

    Dual tank question

    It is a 78, and it does not have return lines. It’s a pirate truck: “take what you can, give nothing back.”
  23. Disco

    Dual tank question

    Ah. Yep, that makes sense… had not considered the one dry tank. Ok, well I guess I won’t do that. Lol
  24. Disco

    Twin Fuel Tank Idea

    Ok, late to the party here, but I just posed my own dual tank idea and saw this afterward. I was a OTR trucker for 8.5 years and a little over a million miles. Most OTR big rigs have dual saddle tanks (my last two trucks had twin 150 gallon tanks) and do almost exactly what you suggest. The...
  25. Disco

    Dual tank question

    Hey all. So, I’m just curious and thought I’d spitball this here. My Big 10 has dual 16 gallon tanks and also has the factory selector switch which still works, if you can believe that. However, I’m well aware that that is a thing that will probably not last long. I don’t really want to screw...

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