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I agree if your exhaust is dumped under the bed before I swapped mufflers I be getting tailpipes and getting it to exit.
my dad has a c30 dump. had dumped exhausted ending right before the rear axle for 20+ years. was just LOUD. not even good loud just loud. I swapped a pair of cheapo summit mufflers (think they cost $30 each) and put the exits in front of the back tires. He get complements everywhere he goes now on how awesome the truck sounds. |
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my sounded terrible until I went with the full exaust
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thought I would share a pic of a cool cut away of a Flowmaster muffler I saw today at a Hot Rod store while picking up some 90° elbows for my side exits
the flow is right to left <== [all together now], ahh that's how you make the drone sound LOL |
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alright lets give the side exits a shot to see if that drowns out the drone
so the passenger side first - here it goes |
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Is that hot rod store Tognotti's?
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I miss going there. Stuck in socal now a desert wasteland
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why don't you all grab a beer and follow me to my metal shop and we can take a look at the new and improved side exhaust Flow-a-Masters
took no time at all to cut the down pipes off and weld up some of these 90° elbows now we are able to spew Carbon Monoxide at two Priuses at the same time whilst stopped at a red light - what's not to like So is the drone gone? No not all the way gone but believe it or not its better, technically the drone used to be at 1000 RPM and now its at around 800 RPM (this is better on cold starts since with fast idle on your head was a poundin' till the rig warmed up) so in the pics you can't really tell but they go out to the side and are angled a little bit down |
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not a huge fan of the Felpro header collector white gaskets, this one parished after only a couple hundred miles of service, now I aint sure if its by design that they are supposed to get this brittle after heating up, or cause its that they've been sitting on the O'Really's shelf since the Pilgrims brought them over on the Mayflower
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got my new digital vacuum gauge installed and protected with an inline 2A amp fuseloge
love seeing it go from 16" at idle to 0" at Wide Open throttle to 23" of vacuum at off throttle while cruising |
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Hey Greg. You know any exhaust system changes call for the obligatory sound clip right? ;)
And I have been thinking I might like to have a a/f meter for tuning. That's the first one in cab I've seen. |
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the manual steering box rebuild kit arrived so it was time to git er done
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I figured I can delay it some more by doing whats completely un necessary...
come on we've all been there time to remove the casting crests (those of you who followed along the engine rebuild know I did this to the block as well) you know those SEMA judges, picky picky - ha ha |
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this is the part that hugs the frame rail, no one will ever see this side, awesome, time well spent Greg
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I mean come on guys looks like GM had Ray Charles in charge of the Casting Quality Control (no offense to Charles he probably would have felt the imperfections and had them fixed...)
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I can't find the before pic of this angle / shot, but you get the idea it was wonky too, look like they had Ogur break the metal with his hands rather than use a hack saw, ha ha
no wonder they could crank out half a million of these trucks a year back then, their standards were "Eh Good Enuff' IT'S A TRUCK!!! |
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alright already lets get to the rebuild process
so here I am using my Polish Press to gently slide the new brass? sleeve bushing thingie in the hole (hammer did not contact the bushing that's what the small wood pieces was for) the hardest part of this precission process is keeping your thumb out of the way |
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How is the ball screw itself? That's where a major portion of the wear seems to take place.
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ladies I would be lying to you if I told you I counted and knew exactly how many of these bee bees came out of that ball screw
I may have counted 50 and I may have read somewhere that 54 is required, please chime in if you know |
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so she's coming along handsomely, though the supplied new washer for this adjustment bolt (foreground pointed right at you with the flat screw driver tip) did not fit so we went back with the old one as there needs to be a bit of wiggle room play in there I suppose
and we just packed the darn thing with some 30 year old Castrol bearing multipurpose grease we have been trying to get rid of since I was a teenager |
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a couple mandatory before and after shots of this Woolly Mammoth
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well if nothing else you sure do clean these parts pretty well bro
top pic: Razor Back bottom: Smooooooooth |
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I just love these before and after shots [oh sorry, millenials translation] pics, I meant pics
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can we PALEAZE get this box on the truck already
alright alright... out with the old first |
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by my estimation, assuming the power steering fluid was topped off, lets see carry the one, don't forget the belt, ... the old system weighed slightly under 712 lbs, hee hee
and yes the pitman arm is keyed wrong on the manual steering box in this pic (apparantly there are four positions it can be in - who knew, I just keyed it on the first key I saw thinking it was the only one there) don't worry that arm came off half a dozen times before I got it aligned proper |
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ok so that took me the entire afternoon from 1330 (1:30 PM people) until 1815... no not eight o'clock... 6:15 PM oh why do I even bother impressing you with my military time know how, jk
ok, good job, looks good bro, how does it drive? oh what's with all these questions? let's not split hairs here Test Drive Time - TDT |
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Nice work on the box.
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LESSONS LEARNED so far
the broom stick ie the steering column do slide up and down so the manual box bolted right up though its not the exact same length as the power box I did re use the old rag joint but I plan on buying a new one or getting a universal joint setup, if someone has one to recommend I would really appreciate that (I think someone already did way earlier in the thread but I am too lazy to look inside my own thread) Power Steering box was about 3.5 turns end to end Manual Steering box is about 4.0 turns end to end Pitman arms be different, not so much in length or design but in hole for the splines, I think the manual is a bit smaller hole |
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So how's the darn thing handle/steer now. I'm dying to know. You've answered several questions about swapping to manual now I just need to know your final results youngin.
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Hey Gregski, remember me talking about that old lady that lives up the road that has the squarebody sitting in her garage? Well I got some details on it from another neighbor....he says that it is a 74 or 75, 3/4 ton, with only about 10,000 miles on it. He said his grandpa and the old ladies dad bought similar trucks at the same time and the old ladies dad pretty much parked his....now I might have to say it with flowers!
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OK, after the test drive... Houston... We have a problem. Apparently 2 is not the middle of 4 according to GM, you see [ahem] "pops" jk the passenger side hits the steer stop and the driver side stops short of it by maybe just under an inch I think its time to blame the P.O. Looks like the previous owner replaced the outer tie rod on the driver side only but not on the passenger side So first this Power Nap aint going to take itself no how, so lemme git that out of the way and then git after it Report at 11 |
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