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No sir the drawing is excactly how it is hooked up. The batteries do have there crossover wires to complete 24 volts to the trucks electronics I just ran 2 wires from my light that are in a series, one is positive wire the other is a negative and wire. All I did was run the positive wire to...
I see a guy in denial over these trucks having weak links... It is a simple and cheap precautionary measure to ensure you don't get stranded.
It was for most part a stock truck that had 33's on it, I put stock sized wheels and tires on it whne the break occured to take up less room in the shop...
I understand that but I still do NOT trust them, I have broke 2 on personal trucks with moderate offroading I can only imagine what beating on it would do over time with oversized tires.
Could have been luck I suppose but I find that hard to believe.
Surely ORU will have knowledge of this...
I scanned your thread here and it looks very impressive to say the least, if I missed this I apologize.
But I hope you guys are upgradeing (beefing up the frame) at the steering box. The R/V series trucks are notorious from breaking the frame there.
Not true... LS5, LS6, L88, L78 any 396 really all 427's
fords old side oiler 427 chrylsers old 440 and 426 wedge and hemi
none of the above cared much about high rpm's. It all depends on compression ratio and weight of internal parts.
Truck motor have a very heavy rotating assembly...
I will check the switch but even when I eleminated the switch the lights still didn't come on in 24 volt, I must have the connections wrong at the batteries.
My sketch at the top is pretty crappy but it shows how I hooked up my wires. I am pretty sure it is wrong all I did was hook my hot...
454 truck motors hate high rpm's my old 88 would get 8-9 mpg no matter what you could load it with 15k pounds and push it down a mountain and it would still get 8-9 mpg on the way down.
The worst I ever got was 1.3 gallons per mile pulling a CAT 426 with extending boom and rock buckets on a 40...
I hooked the lights up as 12 volt and they work but they are very dim, they do NOT respond to the 24 volt hook up I have to be doing something wrong.
The lights are 24 volt I'm pretty sure atleast they are lights that magnet mounted for use on 50 cal's for spot lights. I removed the magnets...
Okay we have been mounting some additional lighting on the trucks front bumper and next ontop of the cab, but I ran into a brain fart it seems.
Attached is an image of how I hooked up the light they are mounted on a switch in the dash but I get NO current to the lights, I know I am doing...
we did the upper adjustment on the rears, the rear tires locked up and drug along while the front continued to roll a bit it just nose dived more than I expected but the steering stayed true and straight it feels good to have great brakes on this thing.
Thanks for all the help there fellas we got her all back together last weekend and she stops on a.... well not a dime but it will stop from 45 mph in a hurry dragging the rear tires along.
I never expected these trucks to nose down so much when heavy braking. But then again with all new parts...
I would agree, our master cylinder failure was caused by the rod going in when the brakes applied and never came back but the brakes released and would not apply and pedal was on the floor.
I would assume rust or corrosion caused this, or it could have been maybe just a fatigue issue.
So in your picture the plug in I speek of would be on the far right of the pic if it didn't cut off. It has 2 wire that run up to the harness on the driver side frame rail.
Sorry guys I'm trying to understand and figure it out I'm just havin a slow day I rekon.
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