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Hmm, none of our 4x4 trucks have that issue. Well, one did, but it had it while it was still 2wd, and it ended up going away when the new driveshaft went in during the 4x4 conversion. Same thing happened to one of our friends, annoying 40-45 mph vibration when truck was 2wd, after converting to...

I fail to see how the tread's creation date makes any difference if the topic is still a hot one these days...

If your curretn shocks are gas-charged, as most on the market these days are, force of gravity ain't got nothing on the force created by that pressure inside. Meaning flipping the shocks upside down isn't going to cause them to leak out. The main issue would be aeration, since someone brainiac...

Too late, already have it as a custom title under the username :D

This! The HP D60s have the differential on the driver side, while your factory-style t-cases are passenger-drop. D60 out of a 3500-series GM truck in the '74-'87 (up to '91 if it's a crew-cab) should be nearly a direct bolt-on in place of what you got now. '93-down Dodge 350 D60s are also set up...

Yes, I misread on the 35s, my bad. Well with the 33s you'll be up there on the RPMs, probably around 2300 or so at 60-65. IF you don't drive interestate speeds every day, or you don't mind staying in the slow lane, that may not be a big deal at all. Our dually can outrun its speedometer no...

Regarding the battery cable, that is actually a viable way of fixing it. Also, factory-style cable suck for adding any power feeds for other things to them, for example our has winches and 90-amp power connectors and inverters and such, and since everything needs to draw directly from the...

The Grimmjeeper calculator says you'll be around 2300 at 65 with the 3.55s and 35s, so that should be fairly decent for both torque and acceptable fuel economy. A friend of ours has a halfton with the ZF and 3.55s and a 4.9 engine like yours and factory-sized tires, the calculator says he's...

OBS D60 in a SRW truck can be as low as 4600lbs, looked at the cab tag of one today :D Big difference from the 6500 lbs Dana supposedly rates them at. The factory-turbo IDIs seemed to have some issues with the wrist pins. Forgot what exactly the problem was, but there have been enough reports...

Nah, not really - all you just did was confirm that Ford had about as little common sense back then as they still do now, which is something I was already fully aware of :D Joke aside, yeah, that's news to me, as every pre-Sterling LD 3/4-ton I've ran into has been a Dana axle, and everyone I...

Suppose that is true, the OBA does have us somewhat spoiled :D Still though, for a while the air springs were not hooked up to it - they just had your typical Schrader valves that could be filled up at any gas station that has an air machine. It worked just fine like that, yes it was sorta...

But there is no leaf spring out there that maintains the same ride height all the time. We like our headlights aimed properly and our steering caster not changing regardless of the load on the truck, thank you very much. We load up a 3000 lbs camper - truck sits the same as it did when empty. We...

Yes the 300 was an option for the cab-chassis F350 trucks till IIRC '97, and this truck is a cab-chassis (left the assembly line as an incomplete vehicle). The E4OD is an electronic transmission, so the PCM has to control both it and obviously the engine - the only way for that to happen...

Yeah I kinda have no choice but to remember these things, as 'round our parts there are still lotsa folks who run them old trucks, and many of said folks come up with all sorts of "creative" ideas regarding said trucks on fairly regular basis... Oh and btw the shift sequence is (IIRC, been a...

Stick a ZF5 in it and that problem goes away. I would never go thru the trouble of sourcing an obscure part for a so-so transmission when a great transmission is already fairly readily available in suitable length. Also the adapter length is usually matched to the transmission's tail shaft, so I...

Yeah, those may work for dinky short bellows/springs (not bags pls), but I'd much rather have our long-travel (14" extended 4" compressed) bellows attached to both the axle and the frame all the time. Those 10" of travel are actually more than the factory rear suspension is capable of. Also...

The lack of fan shroud is definitely the major contributing factor for running on the warm side - the fan is too far away from the radiator to not pull air from behind it, thus effectively severely reducing the airflow thru the rad. At higher speed air is forced thru coing in from the grille...

That wasn't a 8.8 rear, it was a "semi-float" D60, and that saw action till the Sterling came about in '85-'86. The 8.8 was never used in any shape or form in 3/4-ton trucks, it's barely adequate for halftons to begin with. Besides, back then even the halfton axle was the 9", the 8.8 was a...

The term semi-float isn't quite correct for the light-duty Sterling, as it usually refers to the 9"-type axles with the pressed-on bearings, which the LD 10.25 lacks. Instead, the LD Sterling is set up exactly the same way as a 8.8 (only everything is obviously much larger) - it uses C-clips to...

We got three IDIs - the factory turbo 6.5 (GM) moves pretty decent, the non-turbo 6.2 (another GM) is in a much lighter vehicle so it can for the most part keep up with the 6.5, and the non-turbo 7.3 (Ford) is in a very heavy truck so it's pretty much doomed to ride in the slow lane unless truck...