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that would be sweet!!!!! noise doesn't matter to me anyway, i'm half deaf, i like old 2 strokes.
idk if one would fit, but all i could say is find out measurements......i am sure the tranny be made could fit.....
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or a semi junkyard......and get a couple of them.....i'm more worried about what caused the pushrod to bend than the actual pushrod being bent.
they dont' bend on their own most of the time......sounds to me like the valve might of hit the piston and bent the...
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probally napa or any diesel shop should beable to handle getting one.
go to a big truck dealer and tell them you need a pushrod for an 855 cummins. bring the bad one and one good one with you. you will ahve to explain to them that it goes in an army truck or they...
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Ha its just been this past week that i have really gotten into it....i have always like MV's though
Jackson is a good 3hrs from me......not too bad. definetly something i would want to bring a trailer for.
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seriously, id buy a runner from you if you decided to sell one at some point. its hard to find these trucks close to me.
DT
RE: Hone, you got some splainin
haha those were the ones i was lookng at. i was going to pick one but never did bid. wanted to do some research first. some said did start though right?
congrats man......
if you ever want to sell one hit me up, i am looking at getting my first duece.
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i thought they would make more than that.....
but then again i had a truck with a 300 that had 115hp and it would go better than my jeep that has 160 and weighs half asmuch. so i'd just have to drive it and see...make adjustments as needed.
might have to do some...
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thats not too bad.....atleast the second one.
what kind of torque do they make? like round 450 or so???
alas my curse.....low hp high torque.....oh well.
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huh so they really don't do that bad then i guess.....they are geared low so i guess that helps.
i'm not really concerned, i'll only be taking to around the farm, out on the weekends, and to school a few times a month.
can i pull my g/n with it?? thats a big...
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dang......thats alot of compression. they make like 140hp right? how well do they do with that?? call me crazy, but what can i get out of it?
my 6.9 is supposed to be 175 stock.....but banks claims 250 for the turbo and i have stage one injectors with...
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well then....aslong as the motor doesn't sound bad....i may be grinning from ear to ear anyways.
what limits how much power these things make???
say i put an intercooler from a PSD ford on it...turned up the fuel, larger exhaust, changed the compressor wheel...
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thanks freightrain......ya i was looking at one or two that did say they run, but had low bids.... looked a little rusty but not bad.
i'll probally save a few extra grand by the summer incase it needs a few things to make it right, tires, lube. i'm deaf in one ear...
we decided to wait till summer and research the buying process a bit. i don't want to rush something like that. if we wait, we can each get a duece. meaning 2......more fun.
if i don't find what i want cheap enough on GL, i will just buy one ready to rock privately. i figured if i could pick...
me and a buddy are thinking of going in on two dueces....right now some runners are going for 600.....and they have less than a day left in the auction.
so we are going to do some research and bid at the next auction on some other trucks
how often do they have the auctions??
what kind of...
RE: duece noob......have some questions
haha thats fine. my cousin had an old round fendered power wagon when i was little...man that thing is what got me started liking these things......that and i did 4 years of Rotc in hs and 1 year in college....and i was going to go into the military. but...
RE: duece noob......have some questions
hmmm diesel mechanics....i know more about them then the average shadetree...pulling tractors, diesel pickups, building diesel motors and swapping them into gas powered truck....i have done it. i may be young but i can take about anything a truck can...
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