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    What size tires are you running on your dually?

    Getting around to looking at and ordering some tires for my dually. Having a hard time trying to find the size I'm looking for. Want to keep the original 16 inch steel wheels. But I want a taller narrower tire. Something around an 8-9 inch wide by 33-34 inch high. Something in an all terrain...
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    Gas gauge wiring question

    I was looking into it today, reading some schematics and reading some threads. There's two in the truck side of the plug I'll call it and three on the tank side. From what I can understand, black was ground, pink was gauge or fuel level, and the third was power to the pump. So I'm gunna try...
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    Gas gauge wiring question

    I never mentioned, the truck I'm putting the saddle tanks on is an 87 with a TBI and has an in tank pump, the sending unit has 3 wires and plug on it. Ground, gauge and to power the pump I assume I have two new sending units with no pumps on them. That would be used with a mechanical pump and...
  4. J

    Gas gauge wiring question

    Planning on installing saddle tanks on my 87 one ton. Truck already has a single tank with an in tank pump. The gas gauge don't work. I want to install saddle tanks with an external fuel pump because I already have two new sending units without pumps on them. Question is, to wire my gas tank...
  5. J

    Sm465 Squeek

    This Squeek wasn't in the truck yesterday when I pulled her in the garage, all unchanged was headers, gear oil, and rad. And the squeek is right under the hump
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    Sm465 Squeek

    This week I undertook the task of changing headers on my 1 ton and installing new rad. In the process of installing the headers, I discovered they interfered with my PTO on my gearbox. So naturally I had to drain the gearbox, remove, cover, refill. Ever since, there seems to be a squeeking in...
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    Radiator Fit Question's

    What determines what height radiator you need? Is it the rad support? Or is it model or year? I have an 87 1 ton, the radiator leaked back, so I ordered I new one. But by mistake I measure off another rad I had there thinking they were the same. Originally it had a 18 inch tall rad and I...
  8. J

    Parking brake cables

    I'm not sure in wheelbase off hand. But it is a cab chassis truck.Thanks
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    Parking brake cables

    Trying to figure out or track down the lengths of the park cables I need for my truck. It's an 87, C30 C&C. It had the cables routed like the one in the picture but LMC doesn't say any lengths. Rock auto has a lot of different lengths, not sure what I need. Thanks
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    What have you done to your square lately??

    Busy couple weeks. Finally got a start on my 1 ton I picked up last fall. Bought it off a guy I knew who owned the local sawmill, been in his family for 102 years. I got an 87 1 ton C30 C&C, 350 TBI/sm465 with a dump bed they used to haul lumber on. I had seen it running a couple months before...
  11. J

    80s front clip change not fitting

    I pulled the the old rubber floor mats out the other night and discovered the floor plan is cracked about 8-10 inches and the cab mount is 2 inches up through the floor. Id say that's where my miss alignment came from.
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    80s front clip change not fitting

    Long as I know everything "should" fit or was made to fit. Then I knows it's fixable and I'm just trying to patch something together and make it work. Thanks again guys, great forum, good for answers to all my questions.
  13. J

    80s front clip change not fitting

    The wheel wells, support and inside of one fender was rotted out. This is an older support with the bigger single square headlights that I like. Besides the issues of the cab floors and other factors that's causing the misalignment. Should any other 80s style support be bolt on or were some...
  14. J

    80s front clip change not fitting

    The cab floor is soft, I have new floor pans to put in. But maybe moving the truck around the yard and in and out the garage could check let it sink some more.
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    80s front clip change not fitting

    Just getting the straight axle swap done on my 87 and I was replacing the front clip with another 80s single square headlight front clip and fenders. But nothing seems to line up. Was there any differences in front clips/rad supports throughout the 80s, or is it just a matter of adjustments?
  16. J

    rear right sits lower then left??????

    Gunna reopen an old thread here, but I've run into the same problem but on the rear driver side. I just installed a new 4 inch rough country lift in my one ton C&C flat bad with new lift springs, shocks, hangers and shackles and bushings to. When the truck was stock it sat perfectly level...
  17. J

    350 TBI won't fire

    I When I unplugged the injectors and primed it, dumped quiet a bit down the throttle body and it fired right up and idled for 10-20 seconds until I shut her off again. But I let her sit awhile and now she won't fire on the prime either.
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    350 TBI won't fire

    Update. Pulled all plugs and wires and tested them. Couple plugs had a week spark and swapped them. Everything had spark and injectors were spraying fine. No go, only sputters. Gas down the TBI, same result. Unplugged both Injectors, cranked it, it ran for a second. Poured gas down TBI, fired...
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    350 TBI won't fire

    Been working on my 87 350 TBI. Went to bring her in the garage today and wouldn't start. Turned over and fired, ran kinda rough and died. Cranks over perfect but won't fire, makes a little sputter ever so often, I've tried gas down in the the throttle body and won't even fire then. So I'm...
  20. J

    How to change brakes on a 1/2 ton 4x4.

    So the clip only goes on the inner pad like this? There's nothing goes on the outer pad?
  21. J

    2wd to 4wd conversion

    I understand that switching frames is probably the easiest way or just get a 4wd truck. But where I'm from trucks can be few and far between and the 1 tons are even more rear and the cab and chassis model to the point I only know of 2 besides my own, 4 1 ton trucks altogether, all of which were...
  22. J

    2wd to 4wd conversion

    Okay so this is how it looks so far. Everything bolted in expect shocks and drag link. Did have clearance issues with the exhaust on drivers side and had to cut it out of the way but other then that everything went really smooth. Little tricky lining the holes for back side spring hangers. What...
  23. J

    2wd to 4wd conversion

    I'm gunna go with it for now, see what happens, it's not to big a job to drop it back out if I have to
  24. J

    2wd to 4wd conversion

    That's true to, I've left as is for now until I got some feedback, but I'm mostly concerned about the crossmember clearance right now. This is how everything sits right now, I'm not gunna be doing any offroad use really. Mostly gunna be a Sunday/weekend driver.
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    2wd to 4wd conversion

    Hi everybody, I've gone and went ahead with the conversion, on the 2wd 1 ton C&C, I've included some pictures, don't mind the hack job so far, but I've some what dry fitted the axle and springs I guess you could say just for curiosity, wonder what your guys thoughta are on clearance issues...

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