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    E85 conversions considering gas prices

    Feeling quite a lot better about my 8.5mpg, thanks. I only use ethanol for mixing shellac and for medicinal purposes.
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    Part Choice-Brake System

    It would seem I am still on something close to the original filter. Changing it every 42 years isn't too bad.
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    Smoke machine advice

    Vevor has one for 85 bucks...
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    New Badges for Military Service Members, LEO, FireFighters and EMT

    I will gladly pay you Tuesday for a Firefighter badge today. Left the fire service 30 years ago, but it's still in my blood. Many thanks!
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    rough running....backfiring 350

    You've received a whole bunch of great advice in this thread. The only thing I would add is, even if you cure the problem beforehand, replace the distributor cap, the rotor, and the electronic module anyway, just because. It's just good preventive maintenance, and will keep you out of trouble...
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    Wood-fired Square

    Thought I'd share this video my buddy just sent over. He suggested that because I now have a log skidding winch for my tractor, a wood-fired Square should be my next project. Those Scandinavians like their wood. It seems like you'd never reach the point of ROI on a conversion like this, but...
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    Container based shop: 2 post lift placement advice?

    This is the way.
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    Container based shop: 2 post lift placement advice?

    That's fine for indoors. Outdoors, you wind up with a swimming pool or a frog pond.
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    Building my HS dream ride 87 Chevy Silverado

    Howdy Sam. Nice sled!
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    Parasitic draw

    That's a good method. Another idea I like is to leave everything powered down (like overnight) and then take a photo of the fuse block(s) with an infrared camera. Whatever is drawing power will show heat. Maybe not pinpoint precision, but it can get you close.
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    Container based shop: 2 post lift placement advice?

    Based on my recent research, a couple of things: • Have your specific lift selected before you design and pour your slab. You'll want two mounting points that are maybe 3' x 3' and 12" deeper than the rest of the slab, with extra rebar in those areas. That will guarantee non-failure of the...
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    Bench seat with floor shifter..to console or not..

    I can't use a seat mounted console because it would interfere with dog sleeping area. (After he gets over the initial excitement of riding in the truck, he likes to stretch out full-length.) There's just no good place to put cup holders in my truck. I'm about to try a magnetized marine model...
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    Headliner

    Grateful to have a truck with no headliner :).
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    16.5 to 16 wheels 1977 Chevy C20

    I did the same thing with my '84 a few months ago. It came to me with flotation tires on 16.5" wheels. Found an excellent set of 16" 8-lug wheels on Facebook Marketplace for $200 plus a little driving time. The wheels I got are Mopar, but they fit and run fine. The last time I bought 16.5"...
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    Fix this Paint? Any ideas that I do not have to repaint the whole Suburban?

    I had an '89 Ford truck that had the clearcoat start failing after about a year. Several guys in the fire department I served in had the same thing happen back then with their new trucks. The manufacturers were trying to meet new environmental regulations for reduced VOCs in paints, and...
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    What size/length/thread pitch bolts for brace on NP208 transfer case?

    In the future, I will never refer to it as anything other than Vato Zone. Brilliant.
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    Starting gremlin that makes no sense

    Very late follow-up here, but the fix did indeed turn out to be improving the ground(s). Since the main ground goes to the alternator bracket, I removed the bracket and all hardware and cleaned everything. Taps and dies on the threads, made everything shiny. I also added a big ground cable...
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    What type of transmission

    Last truck I had that was three-on-the-tree, I converted to a Hurst floor shifter. Now I remember why ;) .
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    radio question

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    Sealing Bed Wood

    This thread recalls a conversation I had with my brother about 38 years ago when he had bought a new truck. He said he was planning to load some masonry waste into it, and I asked if he was going to get a bedliner. "It's a f**kin' truck!" he replied. That line has come back into memory many...
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    Sealing Bed Wood

    It takes a brave man to have a wooden bed in a truck. I have trouble keeping paint on the stake sides on mine. I'm a luthier by trade, thus know more than I'd prefer to about wood finishes. (Finishing sucks.) Since you're parking the truck in a garage, I'd suggest something like Watco Danish...
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    Why do Americans hate drain plugs? Drive line oil change queries.

    The engineers give us drain plugs, and the accountants take them away. True of a lot of automotive stuff. This thread recalled something I did about 25 years ago. I inherited a 1991 S-15 4x4 Jimmy, which was an absolutely great vehicle. Never got stuck, never came home on the hook. It was a...
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    Swap radio and heater control positions?

    Good point, but this truck (1984) has no vac lines on the heater controls. Just cables. Not really cables, technically. Wires in sheaths. The only things that connect to the heater control panel are the electrical plug for the blower switch, a cable/wire for the heater box door, another...
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    Swap radio and heater control positions?

    Good ideas, guys. Thanks! I'm going to mess with it and figure the 3D printer can probably hide all my sins. Worst case, a new dash bezel from LMC Truck.
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    Swap radio and heater control positions?

    Interesting thought. I'm trying to make good use of the "dead space" on the dash where there would be an air conditioning vent if the truck had air conditioning. Of course, if the truck had air conditioning, it would get 6 mpg.

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