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Old Nov 29, 2011 | 12:42 PM
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Old Nov 29, 2011 | 12:46 PM
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also, i was fixing my passenger blinker bulb (just loose). apparently, i forgot to mount the housing back on the vehicle, so it was hanging on my brush guard and it's wires the entire 35 miles home. whoops...
You forgot to get your work "dual checked" by another mech. before you returned the unit to service?... I guess the prof is going to give you a 0 on this one...

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for my reference

Useful link ian.
Just read thru all 43 pages here... wild... did you abandon the original alternating signal flashers idea when you switched to the duals? or just not bother with the original concept?...

love those IO540s great eng. to work on [specially on navajos] everything [on the eng. anyway] is easy to get at... if you ever see a conti. io520 [on a c421] you'll be looking to murder someone... miserable pita design...

that choke sensor set up is to activate the two leds to tell you when low/high fan are on right? would it be much more complex to rig a single dual colour led? like green for low/red for high? Great thread...

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Old Nov 29, 2011 | 03:26 PM
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yeah, but for the same amount, i can make mine and still have money left over for rebuild kits and a motor. though, if i didn't already have my york, i'd jump on that deal
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You forgot to get your work "dual checked" by another mech. before you returned the unit to service?... I guess the prof is going to give you a 0 on this one...


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Useful link ian.
Just read thru all 43 pages here... wild... did you abandon the original alternating signal flashers idea when you switched to the duals? or just not bother with the original concept?...
the alternating flashers rusted out, so i wanted to try this circuit out. i don't know if i ever had an original concept
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love those IO540s great eng. to work on [specially on navajos] everything [on the eng. anyway] is easy to get at... if you ever see a conti. io520 [on a c421] you'll be looking to murder someone... miserable pita design...
the only thing that got to me was that dam front main bearing. gd i hate that thing!
other than that, yeah. it was a nice easy engine to work with
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that choke sensor set up is to activate the two leds to tell you when low/high fan are on right? would it be much more complex to rig a single dual colour led? like green for low/red for high? Great thread...
like i said earlier, it was harder to decide which color to get
yes, it's easily possible to use a bi-colored led

thanks!
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Old Nov 29, 2011 | 08:20 PM
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what about the bearing gave you grief? only thing up front that ever vexed me was the shaft seal on one specific eng....

your original concept was wig wag flashers... now they seem to be simultaneous flashers...

all the circuit designs I've seen seem to be wig wag when running lights are off and simultaneous when running lights are on... I'd like to find a circuit design that is consistantly wig wag...

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Old Nov 29, 2011 | 08:38 PM
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the front bearing has to be put on 90 degrees to the crankshaft split, and positioned to match up perfectly with the oil passages. it's a pain when the previous classes just put it on any old way, and it doesn't want to stay in place. grrr...

and the camshaft not staying in place, too. yeah...

anyway, the original wig-wag only worked if the parking lights were on. to make the circuit i have wig-wag, i would need to run a separate positive to the parking lights so they can turn on even with parking lights set to "off".

i guess i'm just lazy? haha
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Old Nov 29, 2011 | 08:52 PM
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the front bearing has to be put on 90 degrees to the crankshaft split, and positioned to match up perfectly with the oil passages. it's a pain when the previous classes just put it on any old way, and it doesn't want to stay in place. grrr...

and the camshaft not staying in place, too. yeah...

anyway, the original wig-wag only worked if the parking lights were on. to make the circuit i have wig-wag, i would need to run a separate positive to the parking lights so they can turn on even with parking lights set to "off".

i guess i'm just lazy? haha
hmm so you could double feed the source of the switched pos. of the relay so it was const. hot and get full time wig wag? ... no the circuit would back feed and have the corner lamps on const. ...you'd have to add a diode to the circuit between the corner lamp and the relay to prevent that... golly this thing is getting complex... lol

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Old Nov 29, 2011 | 09:01 PM
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no, just a single relay to reverse the signal from the turn signal. if it's off, turn on. if it's on, turn off.

aka:


but only just after the turn signal has been activated. simple circuit, but just one more thing to do.

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Old Nov 29, 2011 | 09:05 PM
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no, just a single relay to reverse the signal from the turn signal. if it's off, turn on. if it's on, turn off.

aka:


but only just after the turn signal has been activated. simple circuit, but just one more thing to do.
So it would be two dif. circuits then one for with the running lights on and one for with the running lights off?

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Old Nov 29, 2011 | 09:22 PM
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more like one to enable the effect (whatever it may be), and the other change synchronous to wig-wag flash.
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Old Dec 3, 2011 | 08:28 PM
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my "black friday" purchase: a box full of goodies! ball-joint spacers and a diff-drop! woo!

note: this was to make the truck sit at it's current height while relaxing the torsion bars. took it for a test drive, and it's sooooo much smoother now. i was at +6 cranks, which wasn't too bad, but it was bumpy. now i'm back at 0 cranks, and it feels like a caddy. now to do something about those aal's...

enough useless banter, on to the pics!

box of goodies!



before: 235/75r15's, 15x6 steelies, +6 t-bar crank.













after: +6 t-bar crank, 1.5" bj spacers



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(they're down to 0 cranks now, looks about the same as "before")

so that's what i did today. well, this evening, anyway.
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Old Dec 4, 2011 | 05:40 AM
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Looks good ian
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Old Dec 4, 2011 | 06:58 AM
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Does look good. Softer on the road now? Plans for bigger tires?
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Old Dec 4, 2011 | 07:41 AM
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thanks! much softer on the road

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Plans for bigger tires?
shhhh...
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Old Dec 4, 2011 | 08:36 AM
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Niiiiiiiiice! lol. Good-clean install, bud It'll look even better with some meats, but I still like em pretty stock as well... Just gotta meet-the-needs, ya know?
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Old Dec 4, 2011 | 01:50 PM
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while my tires aren't worn-out, they are starting to lose their tread. i will have to get new ones soon enough, so not to worry there.

i'm going to try and get aligned soon. from the front, the wheels look like \--/ (not that bad, but noticeable)

and that's it for now...
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Old Dec 6, 2011 | 06:06 AM
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alignment in progress, and 190,000 crossed
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Old Dec 6, 2011 | 06:16 AM
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and they were able to fix the god-aweful camber. hooray!

now to go wheeling again
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Old Dec 6, 2011 | 08:13 AM
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woot! lol.
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Old Dec 6, 2011 | 08:33 AM
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Looking good Ian...
Wanted to suggest something... if you're going to go capless now you want to think about getting a tonneau cover of somekind to go between the toolbox and tailgate... to keep junk/wet out of the bed and rotting it and to help the mpg... with that tailgate acting like a dam it is going to kill your mpg...
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Old Dec 6, 2011 | 08:50 AM
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thanks guys

canadian pilot: i've been thinking about it. i need to look at what's out there for beds with a tool box. my dad has a hard bi-fold one (alum-foam-alum) which works great. it's survived hurricanes and a basketball hoop falling on it. i like the look and weight of the cloth ones. don't know yet, but you got me thinking. maybe after x-mas...

oh, and on a side note, with the front of the truck lifted the way it is, it feels great when driving. i can see over everything; i finally get the whole "lift-it-more" thing, haha.

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