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    Tire Pressure Monitors [TPM's]

    The TPM on our Subaru is just above a joke. Kind of like the warning lights that tell you, "you just let your engine be killed." About all it does is, give you a general warning the tire is low, OR all four of your tires are flat. For example, when you swap summer/winter tires and their...
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    RABBIT TRAILS: Dealing With Rust, the Old School Way

    https://www.facebook.com/reel/1290045756333474 AI Overview Tannin baths, commonly using tannic acid, interact with iron and steel to form a protective, blue-black ferric tannate layer that converts active rust into a stable, corrosion-resistant surface. This process, acting as a natural...
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    About Those Synthetics and Trusting Big Names

    There are names many of us trusted for years. Based on the contents of this video, there are brands in that list we might want to re-think. More specifically, if an oil brand is willing to con a screw over its customers in one area, is it smart to trust them in anything, or to support them in...
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    Chain/Rope Hoist vs Lift (cherry picker)

    Wondering how many use an overhead hoist instead of a cherry picker (hydraulic lift) to pull engines and mount them on stands. Looking for opinions and experiences on, primarily, chain hoists, those being a whole lot cheaper and easier to store. SIDE NOTE: On the matter of the hoist, I have a...
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    Plug Gap - Suggested or Altered with HEI?

    My new truck, a 78 C15 step side, has a swapped out 350 with HEI (Accel). I'm running the shorty plug equivalent. Anyway, since the engine has HEI, should I open up the gap a bit more than the oft recommended .35 gap?
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    Oxygen to Fuel Ratio, EFR Gauges Info (Youtube)

    The oxygen sensor gauges caught my eye for the tuning potential, and condition tracking. This is a nice little video regarding them. It gives a lot of relative info on their use and installation. A dedicated EFR gauge, in conjunction with a vacuum gauge, should tell users almost everything they...
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    A Bunch of Tidbits About My Non-Air Conditioned C15 Heater [A note-taking work in progress.] Kelly Craig

    HEATER CIRCUIT WIRING and CONTROL PANEL 1.1 As the truck comes from the factory, there is no off position for the blower. It is constantly on low speed, when the ignition is in the run position and the switch isn’t on a higher speed. 2.1 The blower speed is changed via a resistor. The...
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    Surprise No. 238.2, and Thinking Outloud and In Writing

    Yeah, buying a rig nearly half way to being an antique is a pig-in-a-poke. Lots of fun things to do and undo. Things like, install the park-neutral safety switch wires, fix the washer pump, turn the wipers back into a "only on when the ignition is on" unit, install a horn, add the backup...
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    Any Reason Not to Modify an Accel Coil?

    Looking at Accel distributor cap coils and comparing them to other HEI coils, I cannot see any reason for the Accel coils covering, and locking down [hindering removal of] plug wires, other than that the designers thought it was cooler. I'm fiddling with plug wires. Having to pop the cap to add...
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    Flattening the Floor to Allow Use of Any Seat

    Was just reading another thread and was going to post, but my post was way off in another direction, so I figured, rather than rabbit trailing, I drop a new thread to the end of modifying the floor so I never had to be concerned about which seats I wanted fitting, without problems like putting...
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    Don't Waste Your Time on a Holley Choke Conversion Kit

    I ordered the kit to swap out my Holley choke for a manual on 5/31/2025, two months ago. They were happy to take my sixty-eight dollars and eighteen cents ($68.18). They sent me notice they were having trouble filling my order they held themselves out as having, so were bumping the ship date...
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    Fun Stuff (Statute of Limitations Has Run)

    About five decades back, I used to work for the Naval Torpedo Station at Keyport, Washington. My daily driver was my 69 C10 step side. It was, for all times relative, running a 250 six and a LeMan's 4 speed. A friendly U-Joint made it play well with my drive line. A few years in and the...
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    Question on the Comparison of a New, Quality Rag Joint to U-joint Coupler

    A new question I haven't found a clear answer to, after reading a lot of posts across several sites: Would I see significant gain by going with a u-joint coupler instead of a good quality rag joint. Every post I read talks about a huge improvement after a coupler was replaced, BUT, except...
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    Changing An Automatic Flywheel Without Removing the Transmission

    A few decades back, I helped a buddy run his farm, which was two 100 acre plus fields under irrigation circles, about 15 acres of apples, and custom work (i.e., baling hay and harrowbedding the alfalfa out of the field). This, all, translates to "in-way-over-my-head" stuff, I'd never farmed...
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    The More You Know. . .

    On that 03 Ranger I upgraded to a 78 C15 step side thing, I'm being reminded of how much I've forgotten, and how much more I didn't know and need to learn. The electrical problems are lessening (Down to about 12, e.g.: (1) Heater motor wire was, probably, cut for a reason; (2) Back up light...
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    Identifying General Motors Automatic Transmissions

    Rabbit trailing, happened on this great page, which tells how to identify various GM automatic transmissions...
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    Pondering Oil Types [and bad government influence on OEM choices]

    A good article on oil type choices for rigs. For example: (1) Engines were having common bearing failure issues. The oil recommendations were all over the board (e.g., 0-12, 0-20, THEN 0-40 to stop the failures). (2) Info on why some cars call for surprisingly low viscosity, which is to meet...
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    1978 C15 Short Bed Step Side Leaf Spring Question

    Just picked this critter up a few weeks back. Looking around under it, I noticed the thing had 7 leaf springs plus the mounting bar on each side. Curious as to if this is the norm? Anyone got one or other wise know what theirs is, such as number of leafs? I note there is new iron under there...
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    Accel HEI Super Coil (140003) Magic or Trash

    My new 78 is running an Accel HEI Super Coil, number 140003. Just looking at the plug wires, all except one are yellow, matching the truck paint (eat your hearts out), suggesting they should all be replaced, along with plugs, rotor and distributor cap. The Accel HEI looks like a sleek solution...
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    Exterior Door Handle Linkage Connection Solution

    78 Door Linkage A follow-up on the “Locked Out, And The Truck Is Running” saga I posted elsewhere: Getting to the linkage tying the exterior door latch to the door latch mechanism was, initially, other than fun. A bit of head scratching later, and I went and looked at my rod and tube...
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    A Technical Comedy [Only After the Fact]

    Keep in mind, I've only had this truck a few days, so I don't know what surprises the previous two owners left for me. At the time of purchase, I was only given a single door and ignition key. Yesterday, my work on my new driver was limited to going to what passes for town here, five miles...
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    Swapping Fuel Gauges Into the 2-16" Slots

    I searched, but, if info is out there, it's well buried in the history of this site. I just bought a 78 C15 step side. It's very drivable, but needs a lot of previously ignored details attended to. One detail I want to tend is, my ZERO love for under dash gauges. I like keeping my eye on the...
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    Back In the Saddle After 40 or So Years

    I love muscle cars, just like I love kids. That is, they are things to be cherished. Often, because they have to go back home, away from me [and my wallet (or pressed upon time). My old 69 C10 step side always got attention, as it rolled down the highways and byways of The State of Washington...

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