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I just happen to have one on my stand out of a 97:sonicjay::sonicjay:

Are these the best or what?

What are the best headers The Headmans?
 
Discussion starter · #1,088 ·
Well my winch has been really hard to free spool and LOUD, so I removed it from the truck and brought it with me to work. Complete tear down. Found the bearing in the elec motor at the end of where the brushes are was seized. So drove out to Grainger and picked up a new bearing for $10. Cleaned everything. Reinstalled all components. Now it free spools good but is still very loud. I couldn't get the entire center section torn down (where the cable spools). The loud noise sounds to be coming from the internals to that part.

Also bought a tri-gauge set. My last outing was in some deep water and my dash didn't agree. Having all kinds of gauge issues. So time to just by-pass those altogether.

Now I just need to get my doubler shifter and issue figured out for the weekend.
 
Discussion starter · #1,091 ·
Doublers back out

I tore it down tonight. It appears the rod the shift fork rides on was misaligned to the doubler plate. So it sat at a slight angle instead of straight up/down.

I found a small steel sleeve that fit tight over the rod, so i welded the sleeve to the doubler plate to relocate the rod. Hope tomorrow to get it reassembled, installed, and tested.
 
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Well my instrument cluster was all messed up lol......it would read way over on the oil pressure and the temp gauge was always running really hot to overheating most the time. Fuel gauge didn't read accurate (way to full). And my dash lights were always on regardless if the switch was on.

So I bought a tir-gauge set (oil, coolant, amps). Installed and hooked up the oil, coolant. With the oil, coolant sensors unplugged my other gauges in the cluster now work fine :teehee:. And I have 40-60 psi all the time and temp never went over 180.
 
Discussion starter · #1,095 ·
Pulled the truggy off the trailer and put the doors on. Had to bend both drip rails up in order to close the doors. Bounced both sides off some trees. But I was looking at the underside and I'm gonna need two new diff covers as both are dented in pretty bad. And I bent my Right side radius arm. Not a lot, but just enough to notice the curve.
And I have 3 flat tires from all the bark that got shoved into the beads from running python.

:woot: cannot wait to get back to rocks/valleys
 
#1,097 ·
CheapThrillB2 said:
I thought I did on the "rock wall" at rocks/valleys. It banged pretty hard when i stomped on it to bump the wall.....but it was just the trans popping out of gear :teehee: worked awesome the rest of the weekend.
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If you end up taking in out again for some reason, take a pic for me so I can access the wear pattern. I would like to find a way to make a 231-300 in the same fashion.
 
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