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    Need some advice on adding Tow Command to a 2008 F-250

    As you all might know by now my truck was totaled in an accident in September. Did manage after a month's search to find a replacement two states away that was in good shape and not costing a king's ransom to buy. One problem though, there is an aftermarket brake controller on the truck and I...
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    Been away for awhile, here's what's been happening

    Haven't posted here in quite awhile...lots of health issues including kidney failure have kept me off the net and off the amateur radio. Off dialysis now and on the mend. Cannot say the same for my late lamented "Blue Beast". I was driving up the mountain road to my house last month when I...
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    Intermittent electrical issue

    The battery idiot light will briefly flash, and the Scangauge will show a voltage between 11.6 and 12.2 at startup, then voltage shows 13.1 to 13.9 once the engine warms up. While at normal operating temperature, the light will again briefly flash for less than a second. Found a bad battery and...
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    Happy Holidays to all

    Sorry I haven't been around as much as I would have liked to have been. Health issues have kept me occupied. But I did want to wish everyone on the forum happy holidays and a prosperous 2014. By the way, the new forum software looks great!
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    I know I don't want to hear the answer, but give it to me anyway

    Hello all, Last night coming home from Chattanooga, the temperature gauge suddenly spiked, the high temperature alarm went off, and so I went into the local Walmart parking lot to check for trouble. The temperature gauge went down, but in checking the degas bottle, it had a low level, so in I...
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    How absolute is the 15 degree delta rule?

    Hello all, I've had the ScanGauge II installed for a couple of weeks now. It's great to actually have working gauges as opposed to the glorified idiot lights that are the factory gauges. Here is my question. I am told that anything over a 15 degree difference between oil temperature and...
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    Now that things have settled down to a mild roar...

    The wife and I are still technically "homeless". That is a bit of a blessing in disguise as Laura and I are now just going to wait and see what comes our way in terms of a property. We're now living in a seasonal RV spot at Shellmound RV Resort next to Nickajack Lake about 30 minutes west of...
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    Help Needed Advice needed for the newly homeless

    My wife and I made an offer on a house in Tennessee, and the owners were gracious enough to allow us to occupy the house while the financing was worked out. It didn't work out. With no hope of finding another lender who will finance the home, we have to vacate. Thankfully, we have the fiver...
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    Question-Is Rev-X snake oil or does it solve stiction?

    I've looked at some of the testimonials and been to the web site. But before I drop $75 on something that could at best solve the sticky injectors on cold starts or at worse screw up a $14,000 engine, what say the sages of SuperDutyDiesel.com? Is this product any good? Bad? Alternate...
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    Help Needed Looking for recreational land

    A few days ago, I mentioned that the wife and I were going to go to Tennessee to look at some property to use as a campsite and possibly a home site when the wife finally retires. We looked at some property that we saw on the internet, the pictures they posted looked promising, and the price...
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    EGR delete time?

    A problem cropped up last Thanksgiving on a trip to Texas. The truck started running like it was pulling an anchor, when I was only pulling my fiver. I checked everything out in Houston, found I was low on coolant. Filled up the degas bottle, all was well to San Antonio and back to Florida. I...
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    Injector stiction

    One thing that reared its ugly head this winter is injector stiction when cold. Now that it is warming up it is not as prevalent, but I'm curious as to what to do about it. Not wanting to replace the injectors as I hear the problem will just recur with new ones. Any ideas?
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    Spray paint in a can - Medium Wedgewood Blue Metallic

    I've gone to the usual auto part stores and cannot find a spray can of Medium Wedgewood Blue Metallic paint. Even checked with the dealer and the dealer says they don't sell it. I need a can to paint a replacement piece of trim (the plastic part that is on either side of the roof line at the...
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    Hooray, it works!

    I haven't been here as often as I would have liked to be. Two years ago I moved to a place that had no high speed internet save for an expensive satellite link. While I could access just about any other site, two sites, one of them Superdutydiesel.com, could not be accessed with any degree of...
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    Still around

    Stephen wrote me a note that I found this morning asking if I was still alive. I am still on this side of the sod, I won't bore everyone with the details, only to say that trying to keep my wife's business afloat has taken up my time in the last eighteen months to the exclusion of nearly...
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    Stopped to top off tank, now no start

    My wife's van is stuck at the local fuel stop. 2004 Ford E-350 with 6.0 PowerStroke and auto transmission. Engine cranks but will not start. I have been smelling a strong diesel fuel odor for a few weeks now, I was able to pop open the doghouse and check the rear of the engine. No leaks around...
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    A rough few months, hoping things will be better

    Maybe some of you have noticed I have not been posting lately. It has been a rough few months. The joys of living in Florida...even with the housing market dropping like a rock and my house being worth less than I owe, the final nail in the coffin was the nearly doubling of my homeowner's...
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    Raw diesel smell when engine cold...where to look?

    The wife's dog grooming van with a 6.0 diesel has started to exhibit a smell of raw diesel fuel when the engine is started. The smell continues until the engine has run for about thirty minutes, and then it dissipates. I don't see any leaking fuel on the ground, but is there some other place...
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    Changed fuel filter, now no fuel to engine

    Big problem with the wife's grooming truck. I changed the oil filter and oil, no problem, good pressure and the engine worked fine. I changed the primary fuel filter, the previous owner obviously did not use the proper tool to remove the cap. The hex on the cap, being plastic, is deformed and...
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    Changing fuel and oil filters on 2004 E-350 Super Duty Van

    There are enough differences between the F-Series trucks and the E-Series vans that I am stuck. Anyone have any pointers as to where I can get guidance on where the fuel filters and the oil filter is on a 6.0 PowerStroke on the van? The fuel filter conditioner looks different and it appears the...
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    Things that make you go hmmmm...

    Friday's the big day. Ready or not, the wife's mobile grooming van takes its first clients. Taking the salvage from a wrecked grooming van and installing everything in a new chassis, with no blueprints, no specifications, nothing but pictures of finished units to guide me has been a trip. Two...
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    Why I love my truck

    Today was a lousy day, had to run to the nearest big town to go to Home Depot. The store had NOTHING I needed in stock. Sixty mile round trip. On the way back, I was merging back onto the state highway when this annoying woman driving some little econo :censored:box blocks the way onto the...
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    When others sell, we buy.

    Well, an interesting turn of events has occurred concerning my wife's business. Her mobile dog grooming business was going nowhere, until we changed the business plan to groom IN the house instead of in a converted van, which we were struggling to get. Financing a new one is darn near...
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    When it rains...

    It pours. I've been complaining about what I thought was a pulled muscle for nearly a year. I went to the doctor, she didn't like my lab work at all and had me scheduled for a heart echo test. So I show up, having been though this before, thinking this was going to be a ten minute test and...
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    For the first time EVER

    I finally spent an entire Benjamin to fill The Beast. $100 for 28 gallons of Hugo Chavez's finest ULSD. That means since I bought the truck to now, I now have to pay an extra $40 every fill up. And it may go to $50 more soon. There are two outfits that are starting up biodiesel production...

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