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  1. Ellie Niner

    Oil Pressure Gauge

    It actually does measure amperage, but only a small percentage of the current actually flows through the shunt (guessing 1 or 2%). Those fuses are 3 amps, IIRC
  2. Ellie Niner

    Tail light help !!!

    Those crimp connectors aren't going to work very well in the long run if you'll be driving where they'll get wet... they can be made just passable by cramming the splices with dielectric grease. First, I would double check to make sure you've got the right wires to the right places, and...
  3. Ellie Niner

    Instrument Cluster Lights and Dome Light

    Yes. The yellow wire should be the feed to your headlights... powered only when headlight switch is pulled out to second stop. With no power coming into the dimmer switch from it, you won't have headlights. If there's voltage being dropped on one side of the rheostat, there are lights somewhere...
  4. Ellie Niner

    Opinions on cutting out catalytic converters.

    The 1997 is OBD2, so will have an oxygen sensor after one or both converters. If you ace the converter on that application, you'll end up with a check engine light illuminated all the time., and it may not run optimally. The 1992 will never know the difference. My personal take isn't the most...
  5. Ellie Niner

    Recent Changes to the Forum Index

    @SirRobyn0 - Another oddity is that it seems to sensor "bʊng", but not "bunghole". Makes no sense. ...Shiitake mushrooms Scunthorpe problem Mebbe we should come up with a list of alternative alphabet characters to circumvent the evil machine? I don't really need to cuss, but sometimes it's...
  6. Ellie Niner

    What defined the shape of a SM465 shifter? The rod part

    Sûrement pas! Non! Can't say my luck's been much better since I left Montana and Utah for Arizona. Most recent girlfriend sat all the way on the passenger side because the center seatbelt has no shoulder harness. Never had a SO who liked cars, trucks, and mechanical things even a little. And...
  7. Ellie Niner

    Recent Changes to the Forum Index

    Sent you a test PM... and I can't say "sh¡t", but I can say "fʊcker". I can't say either out here (w/o modification).
  8. Ellie Niner

    81 C10 383 stroker stinks

    If you're getting soot, you are definitely running too rich. Whether that's too much choke when it's cold, float level, stuck or wrong power valve settings... something ain't quite right.
  9. Ellie Niner

    Recent Changes to the Forum Index

    I haven't been around here that long, and just got in on the tail end before the asterisks got installed... I'm used to forums that you have to mind your language and pussyfoot around anything that could even remotely be considered political or offensive to that one percent. Gotta say... this...
  10. Ellie Niner

    What defined the shape of a SM465 shifter? The rod part

    One of the best things about having a bench seat! We used to fit four across in my truck... was a tight squeeze, but well worth it if the right girl was sitting next to me. Also one of the few times an automatic trans worked best.
  11. Ellie Niner

    Recent Changes to the Forum Index

    Just kiped a couple letters from the Russian and German alphabet, and one of those upside down exclamation marks from south of the border... Like: ʊ ɑ ¡ The profanity filter isn't very smart, so you just have to change one character in the word to something it doesn't recognize (pretty much...
  12. Ellie Niner

    Recent Changes to the Forum Index

    Fʊcking can't even goddɑmn say sh¡t Fixed, haha.
  13. Ellie Niner

    A little late

    Welcome aboard. And yep... that looks like a decent truck you're workin' with!
  14. Ellie Niner

    Squeaky Belt(s)

    I used an upside down exclamation mark for the "i" to skate past it.
  15. Ellie Niner

    Squeaky Belt(s)

    Another thing that usually doesn't happen... but *can*, is a pulley with a worn out groove. I had that on a reman alternator on my 1975, which had a cast aluminum pulley that wore enough that the belt bottomed out in it while the vee section wasn't very snug. Have even seen it happen to a steel...
  16. Ellie Niner

    Electric fuel pump timer or relay?

    It did, though I gotta admit that it took me a fairly long time to come up with the idea and make a working circuit... then a bunch more to figure out that I just needed to add a diode to stop the fuel pump from backfeeding into the seatbelt light and lighting it up whenever the engine was...
  17. Ellie Niner

    Electric fuel pump timer or relay?

    Quite a few years ago, I wired a seatbelt light/buzzer timer to the fuel pump relay to get a 5-7 second prime on a furrin car I used to own... an oil pressure switch controlled the pump after that. Looks like there are plenty of off the shelf solutions readily available today.
  18. Ellie Niner

    10si vs cs130D

    To carry that kind of current reliably, I'd want to see no less than 2AWG, and preferably better than. Truth be told, 180 amps is probably so overkill for the application that it'd be hard to work up a load that's even 50% of that... unless you're running a dozen aircraft landing lights and/or...
  19. Ellie Niner

    1973 c10 emergency brake light

    IIRC, not all of the early squares had parking brake warning lights. If you do, it's a brown and white wire going to a switch tucked on the upper left of the fuse panel. The brake failure valve is self-resetting, so should turn itself off when you have adequate pressure on both sides of the...
  20. Ellie Niner

    What have you done to your square lately??

    Flushed my brake fluid... definitely not worth taking pictures of, but doing this every few years has kept my original master cylinder, calipers, and wheel cylinders alive. Still sticking with the hygroscopic glycol based stuff, since my experiments with silicone didn't work too well on other...
  21. Ellie Niner

    Too Low

    Higher profile tires will gain you some road clearance quickly and easily, though you're short on fender-to-tire clearance, and would probably hafta go with different wheels. I'd be looking at returning it to stock ride height... then you could still use the current rolling stock. I'm the type...
  22. Ellie Niner

    Dome/Cargo/Courtesy Light Question

    Yep, it can be a little confusing, as the white wire *will* show hot when it's not being grounded through one of the switches... the power flows through the bulb filaments to the white wire when it's just floating there with no connection to ground. If you pulled all the bulbs out of the dome...
  23. Ellie Niner

    Dome/Cargo/Courtesy Light Question

    The dome/courtesy light circuit works backwards from most of the other circuits in the truck; the orange is the hot wire, and is hot all the time. The white wire(s) is/are an open circuit until either of the door switches or the headlight switch creates a path to ground. You would need to...
  24. Ellie Niner

    What have you done to your square lately??

    H6054 is the number for large square headlights... H4656 is the low and H4651 is the high beam for the four headlight trucks. Don't ask me how I can spit up those numbers from memory, haha.
  25. Ellie Niner

    What have you done to your square lately??

    I covered 3 of the headlights with pieces of pizza box so that I could aim each one independently... apologies for the blur... the lens on my iToaster is full of dust.

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