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    I know I don't want to hear the answer, but give it to me anyway

    Checked the oil, it's looks normal. There is an independent diesel shop about 40 miles from here in Manchester, TN that says they specialize in PowerStrokes. The wife and I have to go grocery shopping at Arnold AFB on Wednesday, looks like I'll be talking to them after getting the shopping done...
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    Goose neck or not!

    The problem isn't with the truck, but with the trailer. You can risk cracking the frame on the trailer by making the conversion from fifth-wheel to gooseneck. Most manufacturers of fifth-wheel trailers will void a trailer's warranty if the pin box is modified from a fifth-wheel to a gooseneck...
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    What the h**l is going on here

    Guess I missed all the excitement, but I did notice new forum software...
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    I know I don't want to hear the answer, but give it to me anyway

    Hello all, Last night coming home from Chattanooga, the temperature gauge suddenly spiked, the high temperature alarm went off, and so I went into the local Walmart parking lot to check for trouble. The temperature gauge went down, but in checking the degas bottle, it had a low level, so in I...
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    Question What did you do to your truck today?

    Spent $650 at the dealership, replaced the hydroboost unit on the brake master cylinder. Learned a bit more about the truck, how the power steering pump also provides power brake assist, as the diesel does not have vacuum like a gasser does. Good thing I replaced it, the truck was going through...
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    What do you do?

    Retired Air Force NCO. When I was in the AF, I worked in public affairs offices in the states, and as a broadcaster for Armed Forces Network overseas (think "Good Morning Vietnam") Wife and I owned a mobile pet grooming business until we sold it a couple of years back. Once we finish our home...
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    New Member Howdy from NE Alabama.

    Welcome from a member at TAG (intersection of Tennessee, Alabama, and Georgia)
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    No A/C at low RPMs

    If you find you have a leaky A/C system, pump out the old Freon and install Red Angel, then recharge with Freon. Red Angel was recommended to me by an A/C tech at the dealership, he says that it hasn't failed him yet and if my wife's car is any indication of the stuff's effectiveness, I must...
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    Humor My sister is a nut case

    I'm living in my fiver at $325 a month with all utilities. Maybe the tent thing is an Army mentality...even when I was active duty Air Force, when we lived in tents, they had wood floors, air conditioning and large screen televisions. The Army OTOH had your standard issue tents with no air...
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    How absolute is the 15 degree delta rule?

    Hello all, I've had the ScanGauge II installed for a couple of weeks now. It's great to actually have working gauges as opposed to the glorified idiot lights that are the factory gauges. Here is my question. I am told that anything over a 15 degree difference between oil temperature and...
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    Question What did you do to your truck today?

    Added a Scangauge II.
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    Question What did you do to your truck today?

    Cleaned everything out for the install of my HF amateur rig. Put in a new passenger side battery two weeks ago. Yeah, I know about replacing the battery in pairs, but the right side was SUPPOSED to have been changed out three years ago at the dealership. The date code however said the battery...
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    Low site activity

    I sold the extra car, now we're down to the pickup and my wife's Focus wagon, which is now the primary grocery getter. Thankfully, diesel has reached $3.70 a gallon, down from $4.05 six weeks ago.
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    anyone else see the humor in this

    You will know soon enough, grasshopper. :eek:
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    Finding more soft spots.

    Even if the rig has some soft spots, if it has aluminum sides it's a pretty easy fix. The front and rear of my fiver had some major league wood rot, removing the aluminum, finding the rotted timber, and replacing with new wood only took me about a week on each end. I used glue and screws versus...
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    I'm a Dad! (Again)

    That little girl will break your heart, you know. At least we all know what you and the missus do in your spare time!:lmao
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    rant Oh g*d d**m it

    You would have to put a gun to my wife's head to get her to drive my truck. I say "my truck" even though her name is also on the title, much like "her car" also has my name on it. I can make COMPLETELY sure that she doesn't drive it by hooking up the fiver to the truck.
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    auxiliary tanks

    You can get fittings and a fuel gauge and sender at a marine supply house like West Marine. Filler neck from a salvage yard. I've had to do a similar project when I added a generator to my fifth-wheel travel trailer.
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    Now that things have settled down to a mild roar...

    The wife and I are still technically "homeless". That is a bit of a blessing in disguise as Laura and I are now just going to wait and see what comes our way in terms of a property. We're now living in a seasonal RV spot at Shellmound RV Resort next to Nickajack Lake about 30 minutes west of...
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    Help Needed Advice needed for the newly homeless

    To all of you, thanks An update on the situation...we'll be moved out by Sunday night. We found a place to store most of the stuff, we found a new home for the washer and dryer, experience told me they don't store well. For the next few days we are staying in Marion County RV Park, for $15 a...
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    Help Needed Advice needed for the newly homeless

    My wife and I made an offer on a house in Tennessee, and the owners were gracious enough to allow us to occupy the house while the financing was worked out. It didn't work out. With no hope of finding another lender who will finance the home, we have to vacate. Thankfully, we have the fiver...
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    Radiator hoses

    Ouch!
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    Trailer tire problems

    Some say I'm crazy for not going to LT tires, but i have Goodyear Marathons on my fiver, and they haven't given me a single problem.
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    Question power door locks

    I seem to remember that the switches that control the dome lights get gunked up and that can cause some of the problems you mention. Liberal application of WD-40 and cycling the switches is said to work wonders.
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    Question-Is Rev-X snake oil or does it solve stiction?

    I've looked at some of the testimonials and been to the web site. But before I drop $75 on something that could at best solve the sticky injectors on cold starts or at worse screw up a $14,000 engine, what say the sages of SuperDutyDiesel.com? Is this product any good? Bad? Alternate...

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