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    Question Wax/Paint Care

    What are you guys using for wax/exterior care these days? Both my truck and wife's car exterior need some TLC. I've really grown tired of the wax getting into the plastic and leaving the white haze. Seems inevitable no matter how careful you are. I've seen lots of advertisements for the spray...
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    Hissing Under Hard Acceleration

    Hey guys, been a while! Admittedly, i do not wrench on my 2011 like i used to on my 7.3, so trying to see what i could be getting myself into here before i try to address the problem. Yesterday, i was towing a trailer with golf cart (maybe 3000 lbs total, so not much) and i started to notice a...
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    Oil Leak From Drain Plug

    My 2011 has the hard plastic oil pan and squirrely plastic quarter turn drain plug. For a while now, I've had a little leak from where the plug is and assumed it was the o-ring going back on the drain plug. So, i went ahead and just purchased a new drain plug and installed when i did my last...
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    Help Needed Folding Bed Cover Advice

    In the market now for a folding bed cover. I've looked at quite a few and not sure what direction to go. I currently have a low profile toolbox filled with stuff and really hate to lose that storage space. I know there are some covers out there that offer integrated tool boxes (bak flip has...
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    Grease Smell Coming From Vents

    As the title states, I've got a strong smell of grease (like thick bearing grease, or something you would put on a motor) coming from my vents. Never had this before, can't see any leaks at all. Still getting good condensation and dripping when the A/C is running, A/C is still cooling well...
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    Gonna be doing some towing this weekend

    Folks, as the title states...I'm going to be doing a little towing with my truck this weekend. I'll be dragging a 31' cabin cruiser boat on a triple axle trailer...I think all in, I'll be around 11k. I've never pulled this much before but know my truck is capable. Anything special i need to...
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    Brake Job on my 2011

    Back right brake is starting to squeal (thought it was the humidity change, but temps and humidity just dropped and its still doing it) pretty bad. I've got about 53k on it. I know it aint rocket science to do a brake job, although I have never actually done one by myself. What would I be...
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    Mysterious Coolant Leak

    Ok guys...truck is at the dealer now getting repaired, but I'm not sure what they're doing. About 6 months ago, I had a oily/coolant substance dripping down the passenger side onto the frame rail. I thought it was coolant and as it turns out, the evaporator coil was bad and had to be...
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    Question Mods for Colder A/C

    Remember how we could wrap all the coolant lines and crompressor housing with aluminum foil tape to get the A/C colder on our 7.3s like in the article posted here: http://superdutydiesel.com/wiki//tiki-read_article.php?articleId=49 Has anyone tried this on the 6.7? I tried looking under...
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    Automatic A/C woes...

    When I first got the truck approx 2 years ago, one of the things i was the most impressed with was how well it cooled. I used to be against setting a temp and letting it do its thing, but i've really grown to like it. This summer (and its been hot here in Houston) I feel like things arent...
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    Which Tires?

    Time for new tires... I've narrowed it down to the BFG A/T or the BFG Rugged Terrains Stock size, 95% of the time the truck is on pavement. A/Ts are about $325 and the Ruggeds are $270 Your thoughts?
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    Help Needed Cigar Smoke Smell

    Hey guys...my brother just purchased a 2009 Yukon Denali (too good of a deal to pass up with only 18k miles on it!) but it unfortunantely had a cigar smoker before. It was a great deal and I think we can get the smoke out. The guy at the dealer talked about putting bars of soap under the...
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    Help Needed Sunroof Track

    I've notice the past few times I've used my sunroof (acutally opening it now with the cooler weather!) that when it is opening, it sort of chatters in its tracks. I got up there and sprayed some silicone grease in the tracks (now the whole truck reeks!) but that doesnt seem to have corrected the...
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    Check Coolant Additive Message

    As the title states, this message came up on my display the other day. I've read a ton of stuff regarding how to test it (the test strips, the additive etc)... What have you guys done?
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    Question Oxidation on Toolbox

    Hey guys, I bought a UWS Toolbox from a buddy that is about 5 years old. The thing is in great shape, opens and closes like a dream and all the latches are good. Its a low profile black one. My only problem is that the top has obviously got some oxidation/fading from being exposed to...
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    Floor Mats

    I had the husky liners in my 02 and loved them. Ive decided i want carpeted ones this time and know catch all makes great ones, but it looks like their plain conventional ones arent made for the '11s. This is all I could find and am not crazy about the design. What i do want though, is the...
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    There might be a 2011 in my future...

    Well...I hate to say it, but I might be trading up here soon. I love my 7.3, but its gotta be replaced at some point... I drove the new ones yesterday and the salesman told me that to upload music to the hard drive in the truck...you can only do it using cd's. That seem right? Seems like...
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    ac compressor shim

    I think my ac is messed up. How cam you shim the compressor and how can you tell if that's the problem?
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    Vehicle Height

    Does anyone know how tall a 2011 F250 SRW 4x4 with the 20" rims is? Ford's website shows it to be 79.7" which is just a hair under 6'8" but that is "without options." I would guess that this is only with the 16 inch rims. Anyone have measurements for the the 20" rims?
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    Hit the Mirror

    Well, I was at lunch today and I'll be darned if my mirror did get in an argument with the pole. I've got the lit/heated towing style. It took the whole outside cover off and it looks as though the cover is fine. The light shield is busted and I'll need to replace that lens. Where can i...
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    Died on me this morning

    Drove to work, no problems at all. Ran great. got off the freeway, and was sittting in some traffic at a u turn, heater on, radio going and all of a sudden i feel the truck shake. Look down and the rpm gauge is sitting at 0, battery light is on and airbag light is on. It's like someone...
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    Question Energy Suspension

    Well, after a little over year my sway bar end link bushing are shot again. I'm not going through the mess of getting them from Ford, so id like to get them from energy suspension but was looking at their website and havent a clue as to what i need. Surely someone has ordered them before and...
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    Question Oil Consumption

    So I've notied my truck is using oil. No leaks at all. Everything in the motor is dry around the HPOP, HPOP lines, Valve Covers etc. I change the oil every 5k, and when I do, I ensure that the level is at the top of the full mark. I'm getting close to changing it, and I am now almost at the...
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    Straight Pipe Drone

    Hey guys, I found someone who was selling a muffler delete pipe earlier this week and had been wanting to straight pipe mine, so i figured what the heck. I had been wanting to do this becuase the POS exhaust system I put on there was starting to give me issues. The muffler would not stay in...
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    Question Was the site down this AM

    Was the site down/messed up this morning? I kept gettng a "Zend Optimizer not installed" message come up everytime I tried pulling up the site this morning. Just wanted to see if somethign was wrong with my computer or if it was a website issue.

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