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    Good healthy carnage

    Roaded our 966g loader out to one of the jobs this morning to trade for the 950h they’d been using. 950 needed a couple ac lines, seat air bag and a couple other minor things. Right before I got back to the shop with the 950 the belt started squealing a little. Gauges all good. Pulled in and had...
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    Good healthy carnage

    I’ve got a set of their premium 625 studs in my other truck that have been problem free for 15 years. They’re super expensive though and I didn’t feel I needed them for this one. Now that you figure in the head gasket set and additional studs I’m pretty well there and wish I’d have just gone...
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    Good healthy carnage

    Yes 125 is their spec for final torque on these 12mm studs.
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    Good healthy carnage

    With that being said, it’s a well known fact that in the performance world of these “automotive” diesels, if you increase combustion pressures to a certain point, you’re going to blow a head gasket with stock bolts. I have arp “625” studs in another truck that’s seen close to 70psi boost with a...
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    Good healthy carnage

    The company I bought the studs from offered to send me a replacement stud for free. I had a picture of another that, to me looked like it was stretched in the same spot and pointed that out. I don’t want to go back with any of them at this point. It’s not my first time and I don’t feel I’ve done...
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    Good healthy carnage

    I suppose the funniest part is that with these studs, you have to bottom tap every hole. I decided the stock head gasket from ‘95 had made it this long, I didn’t want to disturb it. Spent a TON of time doing one at a time and running an extended length tap to the bottom of each hole then fishing...
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    Good healthy carnage

    Reviving my old dodge that I’ve let sit and rot for close to 10 years. Not trying to make a ton of power with it but decided I’m probably in the category of needing head studs so I bought a set of arp 2000’s. Was on the final sequence at 125 foot pounds and POW! Pulled the head and welded it out…..
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    Good healthy carnage

    Does it come with a lock n stitch kit?
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    Good healthy carnage

    I will say, they did a really nice job of cleaning it up after! Not sure why??
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    Good healthy carnage

    Was the person that heard the Tink in the next county? Pic makes it look like 1 and 6 are pretty scored too? 6 is usually the first to go thanks to getting the least amount of air and the hottest coolant thanks to the others preheating it before it sees it. Just so happens I’ve been working on...
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    330C hydraulic pump whining

    Make sure to give them the part number off of your actual pump when you talk to them so they can check on parts availability for it. Sometimes there’s updated part numbers on sis that may or may not have the same internals. Also, when you go back together with it, fill the tank then loosen the...
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    330C hydraulic pump whining

    I had the pump set on our 330c rebuilt at a shop in Phoenix last year for $9,000. They used cat parts and bench tested it after. Machine had similar hours and symptoms. Was down on flow and making noise. You’ll definitely want to change the hub and coupler while you’re there. More than likely at...
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    Antique & Vintage Trucks.

    This one’s got a 855 and that awful 7spd. I was LOST the first time I drove it until I finally found the shift pattern on the dash!
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    Kenworth

    I thought you said dual stacks were dumb. In all seriousness, great job on the restoration!
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    Kenworth

    Still irritates me that it came to this. It really wasn’t a hard install but I’m kinda hung up on the principle of the whole matter. He did a full roadside inspection on a 1973 Kenworth and because he couldn’t find anything wrong or unsafe he had to throw this in my lap. Like I have nothing else...
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