Recent content by thegoat4

Well, got it all apart, and it is surprisingly unhurt. Cam bearings are marginal and the rings and water pump are toast, but otherwise, no real damage. Got the heads off, looked pretty bad at first. Heads are fried. After stripping the block down, I found that it was nearly immaculate...

My trusty 3.0 nearly died in the desert to a stuck thermostat. I got it running again, and made it out of the desert, but a head gasket (or both) failed; as I was driving and topping off the water I was steadily filling my crankcase with the "lost" water. It pushed out pretty much all of the...

What's the most weight my IFS can support before I need to explore other options like a solid axle? Is the max weight different between 2wd and 4wd? Yeah, I know, nobody likes IFS, but if I can stick with what I've got I intend to.

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http://money.cnn.com/2009/01/25/autos/ford_no_more_money.reut/index.htm FYI.

I'm fine with closing a thread once it becomes useless and just an eyesore, but I think it's bad form to throw down your own personal opinion at the same time you close the thread. If the thread's discussion is really no longer beneficial, fine. Kill it, state why it was killed, and leave it...

So I spent last weekend in Ft. Worth celebrating christmas. Late Sunday I had to drive back to Austin. Not too far out of Ft. Worth I decided I was too tired to drive, so I pulled over for a nap. Slept about an hour and a half. I woke up because it got cold inside the truck. Went to start...

Death of an icon. Bettie Page She always made me wish I were about 60 years older.

I have a kind of lengthy PM routine. Oil change, grease the ball joints, clean off the engine, vacuum gauge, fuel pressure gauge, oil pressure gauge, clean the pulleys, clean the radiator, clean the ac condenser. Tranny oil check, diff oil check, coolant test, battery electrolyte test, battery...

We need to put our heads together and clarifiy what we mean when we start talking about alternative fuels. My suggestions: Fuel: as far as internal (or external) combustion engines are concerned, anything that qualifies as a fuel is made up of molecules that have chemical bonds which when...

I'm sitting at home, minding my own business, when I hear a whole lot of air brakes and beeping outside for a long, long time. I finaly get curious enough to investigate, there is a dump truck literally two inches from my truck with a dump trailer hooked up, trying to make a u-turn in our...

Actually, it's the linkage. After driving down the highway for 30 minutes or better, my clutch pedal starts to stick. It takes a lot more force to push down, and is slow to come up. It hasn't gotten stuck down yet, but my foot can easily outrun the pedal on the way up. But, when it cools...

http://stingerhitch.com/ Then again, I suppose for every solution there's a problem.

No more payments, cheaper insurance, and just in time for another gas hike. :D I feel better, anyway.

With more unsprung weight, you need correspondingly higher sprung weight to hold the wheels to the road. Unless you put something heavy in the bed you're likely to have a hard time driving it around. I've had to transport garbage trucks before they got their compactors mounted. 3,000+lbs of...