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    Weird Fuel Gauge Issue

    Heh, when you're forty years old, all SORTS of things start slipping and going out of place. :) Could be the needle just got slightly loose and rotated on the shaft. If you had a full tank and went jumping ditches, something like that might do it.
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    Best all-around solvent for engine work?

    Looking for a good all-around solvent to use while working on drivetrain components. Any suggestions? I come from the aerospace world of several decades ago. We used a lot of 1,1,1 trichloroethane and before that, a lot of methyl ethyl ketone. The MEK worked great, but you had to be careful...
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    Smeding Performance Boerne, Texas

    They look legit to me:
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    Popping noise heard & felt when in hard right turn from standing stop

    Thanks guys, good ideas, will check.
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    Popping noise heard & felt when in hard right turn from standing stop

    Indeed they do! Always liked them second best. What would be way cool is if someone made rally wheels in an 8x6.5 pattern... but as far as I can tell, those are unobtanium.
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    Popping noise heard & felt when in hard right turn from standing stop

    This rig has a 4" lift and a raised steering arm; the drag link is horizontal (as it should be). BUT Now that you bring it up, the previous oner put rims and tires from a '90s model on this rig -- they're 17" aluminum rims and I'm wondering if the backspacing is wrong for this application...
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    Popping noise heard & felt when in hard right turn from standing stop

    Great idea, thanks! I just checked, nothing there. :(
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    Popping noise heard & felt when in hard right turn from standing stop

    Begging some input from the group. Have an 83 K20 305 SM465 NP205 4.10 14bsf rear (not posi) & 10b front. While in 2 HI if I have the steering hard right (not quite to the lock, but almost) and accelerate briskly from a standing stop, I hear and feel a single loud...
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    Studying the schematic

    Hmmm... better that the truck die than something melt and catch fire. Those fusible links always seemed like a fire hazard to me... but I'm no vehicle electrical system engineer. Pretty sure "general use" means "stop asking us questions we can't answer." :)
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    Front lighting harness for 83-87 V22 RPO

    Wow, thank you! That's... embarassing. Saw those before, but for some reason that is now unclear to me, thought they wouldn't work. Apparently that's why talking to other people is usually beneficial. Thanks again.
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    Front lighting harness for 83-87 V22 RPO

    Good point, I remember reading about repinning the existing two sockets. You know what, that's the way I'm going to do it. Thanks for the encouragement!
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    Studying the schematic

    Thanks! That makes sense. I had in mind slo-blo 50 or 75 amp fuses... maybe those just weren't (still aren't?) made.
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    Front lighting harness for 83-87 V22 RPO

    Good idea, but will be using LED lamps, so current draw through the switch isn't as much of an issue -- I think. Wary of introducing more moving parts to the system, seems like more potential points of failure.
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    Front lighting harness for 83-87 V22 RPO

    Not even remotely stock. Yes, could read the schematic and mod the existing harness with new lamp sockets. Laziness says otherwise. :)
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    Front lighting harness for 83-87 V22 RPO

    Maybe I missed 'em, but LMC, USA1, etc don't have any for the 83 and later year models.
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    Studying the schematic

    That's just a bus bar. It would take a LOT of current to actually melt that plate through, probably more current than the battery could even supply. A fusible link is usually (always?) a short section of much smaller guage wire designed to burn through if the current gets too high. I've always...
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    Front lighting harness for 83-87 V22 RPO

    Converting an 83 K20 from two headlights to four headlights. Have the core support, bezels, buckets, and all the rest of the hardware from a donor truck. Also have the front lighting harness -- but it's in pretty sad shape. Cracked insulation and a few mangled connectors. Is there anywhere...

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