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    Multimeters?

    Thanks for the advice, all. I was kinda getting the vibe, on my own research, that the Flukes were the gold standard, which you all have pretty much confirmed. As for what I'll be using it for, that was what I was saying in my initial post. Building an RPC is probably as complicated as I'm...
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    Multimeters?

    hey everybody, just wondering if you've got recommendations for a multimeter you've been happy with. I've got an old junky one, need to upgrade to a more versatil digital one that's easier to read. I rebuild a lot of old woodworking equuipment, in addition to working on my vehicles, and I'll...
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    sound like a fuel pump to you?

    Thanks for the replies, all. This problem just got more complicated, too, since I think that I've also got a blown head gasket. Sigh.
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    How do new cars connect to internet ?

    I don't carry a cell phone. Haven't got a tv that's connected to anythingother than a dvd and an old vhs player. Never had a facebook, this forum and one other are the closest I get to social media. I've also got 7 kids, who will hopefully inherit their parents' skepticism as to adopting...
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    sound like a fuel pump to you?

    So I'm headed home on labor day, and my 91 Ford Escort dies, out on the interstate. (Yeah, I know, I know, it's a Ford...). I try to start it, and it chugs a bit, starts without coming up to full idle, and dies. I sit there for a while, and it starts again. I go another couple miles down the...
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    I can't get my ashtray back in

    Hmm, I'd like to see how the ashtray goes in from the back, too.
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    How to send power to window switch for testing?

    On my 89, it's the black and blue wires that run it up and down. Aaron
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    I can't get my ashtray back in

    Ok, so this is really dumb, but I can't get my flip-out ashtray housing back in, and I failed to keep track of how I removed it. It's an 89 V3500. I've been trying it from the front of the dash, and I can't see how I could get it in from behind the dash. From which side does it install? I'm...
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    How To Build Custom Door Panels

    Hi all: I'm now getting going on this. I'm getting confused, looking at the OP's pictures. So in the initial stage, where he's stretching the t shirt, what side of the panel is he on, the front, or the back? He says to cover the whole panel, but then, you can see the bare wood, on the front...
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    Can't get my vent windows out

    That's a great thread you linked to, Eric, thank you. I hadn't run across that one. Ok, so this makes sense for the front doors. Can I basically do the same thing on the rear doors, or is there a different procedure, since the side that sticks on those doors is the reverse of the front doors...
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    Can't get my vent windows out

    Everyone: So after fighting with my window felt for over a week now, it looks to me as though I just need to pull my vent windows, put the felt channel in, and then reinstall. I've looked through youtube, watched the Brothers video on vent window removal, but I still can't get it out. The video...
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    Window Felt Replacement

    Hmm, I was kinda wondering if that's what I'd hear. I've go a v3500, so I've got 4 of them to do. If I come up with any great ideas that make it easier, I'll share. Aaron
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    Window Felt Replacement

    Hi all: I'm having the same problem as the original poster. I'd tried silicone spray, and I'm still getting stuck. I'm doing ok on the back of the windows, since I can get a pair of needlenose in there from underneath to pull down while I push from the top. The fronts of the windows, though, no...
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    Making multipurpose shops work

    I've got a large, 4500 cfm dust collector, that sits outside my shop wall, with a trunk line that goes under my footer and then under the shop floor and which I'm gradually getting all my tools hooked up to. I've been contemplating some sort of large plastic curtain between the two sides of my...
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    Making multipurpose shops work

    Hey everyone. So I'm mostly a woodworker, but am currently finishing up my 89 V3500, and have a good bit more mechanicing to do, in future, including on couple more squarebody pickups. Anyway, I've got concrete floor on one side of my shop, and wood floor on the other, with one great big wood...
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    How do you guys clean primer before top coating?

    A coat of self etching with a couple coats of sandable primer over that. I got it from van sickle paints. You thin the sandable primer with lacquer thinner, if that helps ID what kind it is. I hadn't thought of tack cloth, which is weird, since I'm mostly a woodworker... Aaron
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    How do you guys clean primer before top coating?

    I got my cab all primed and sanded and more or less ready to paint. I'm not sure that I'm getting all the sanding dust off the primer though. I started off using acetone, and quit, when I discovered that I could actually rub through the primer with that. Live and learn.... then I just went to...
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    pittsburg torque wrench

    Yep. It now costs me $100 in gas, to go get two months worth of groceries. Good times...
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    Best way to fix broken shock mount studs

    yeah, that's why I was contemplating cutting off the rivets that hold on the brackets, drill a hole, inserting a bolt, and then welding the brackets back on. I ended up trying the weld-on-a-bolt method. I hooked up the shock at the bottom end, and then was able to see where the upper bolt...
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    pittsburg torque wrench

    I've tightened the others well past where I did get the one bolt to click, so it sounds to me as though my wrench probably defective. That's a good idea, about returning the defective one in the old box. That sounds like a plan to me. Particularly since I live 2 hours from the nearest HF store...
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    Best way to fix broken shock mount studs

    Thanks for the replies, that simplifies my life, not having to cut the rivets off to remove the whole mounting bracket. It looks as though the steel on the bracket is 3/16 or so, so I would think I'd be able to get a pretty solid weld on it, as you said. Aaron
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    pittsburg torque wrench

    I tried again, and am not hearing two clicks. If it is clicking at all, it's so subtle that I may be getting it confused with the little creaks made by the washer against the cab mount. Per your question, I've tried it on multiple bolts, too. It may be that I'm just not listening for the...
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    pittsburg torque wrench

    I'm trying to torque my new cab mounts to the specified 55 foot pounds. I picked up a cheapie Horror Fright 1/2 drive torque wrench a while back, figuring that it would be fine for occasional use. (Maybe I was wrong...). I've gotten it to click on exactly one bolt, so far, and I can't get it...
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    Best way to fix broken shock mount studs

    All: So after days of soaking, heat, soaking, heat...., I broke both upper mounting studs for my rear shocks. I picked up some grade 8 bolts that should work but am contemplating the best way to fix them. I could cuts the mounting brackets off, drill a hold through where the original mounting...
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    Trying to figure out my new cab mounts

    Thanks, Sly. Based on your kit, it looks like I'm doing it right. I'm at that stage where you don't know what you don't know... Aaron

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