2014 BS and Chat Thread!

[fatty]

Or if I've answered 3 times, that's why.

[RCCUMMINS89]

It stays in the outbox until I open it

[fatty]

Well that's crazy, I've never noticed that before.

[RumbleFish]

So my manifold is shrinking. What should I replace it with? Stock? 3 piece? What brand?

[cmann250]

His skid loader can do the second row.

Find a closed tandem trailer. Schilly uses spreads from what I remember. Tight turns you do local most of the time eats tires and bearings on spread axles.

In uneven ground backing a spread can be a pain if the trailer doesn't have a dump valve on it. It will turn on the axle with the most weight on it. If you setup for rear axle back in and it pivots on the front axle. Well time to reset for the front axle. Then most likely it will do the rear axle after respotting.

At work for our storage trailers we do not use or buy spread axles. To much of a pain in a unimproved parking area.

Thanks for the info

I think cheap will be our main deciding factor

So my manifold is shrinking. What should I replace it with? Stock? 3 piece? What brand?

Buy the cheap DPS 3 piece and let me know how you like it. I need to do something about my manifold sooner or later.

[CumminsPower59]

I think the rear axle in my 91 is just about done. Besides the chipped pinion, very loose bearings, and constant growl, it has developed a very distinct "tink" noise when coming under power from a dead stop. May have a busted side gear in the LS, pulling some shenanigans while out for the weekend at Michaels. Not sure what I am going to do. New side gears, cross and clutches are over $600, along with new carrier bearings and shims for another $150ish (I already have pinion bearings and shims), and I have a good used ring and pinion to replace the junk ones currently in. $800 is a bit much to be tossing into a axle. Too bad D80's don't have 3.07's, I'd rather have one of them.

[cmann250]

Too bad D80's don't have 3.07's, I'd rather have one of them.

For the sole reason of being equipped with disc brakes, I'd like to have one. The stopping power with 4 wheel discs and hydroboost would be unreal.

After 3+ years of ownership, I discovered that I have a traction locking device of some sort in the rear end. I was spinning the passenger side rear tire in the ditch beside a hay field and then I heard an audible clunk and next thing I new I wasn't stuck. Now that I know I have an LSD of some sort, I'm actually going to take care of this axle!

[CumminsPower59]

One hair brain idea, although expensive and unique, would be to find a D80, re-gear it to 3.31. Find a mid 70's Ford D61 rear with 3.31's, and use that R&P in the D61F. Boom! 3.31's all around. I guesstimated this train wreck at about $2000 between buying axles, overhaul kits, case spreader, bearing puller, miscellaneous parts, etc. No idea if it would all work or not, but it is unique.

[cmann250]

Fixing the D71 you have has never sounded better now, eh?

I browsed Craigslist for some trucks I could part out earlier. I was thinking, "Well I know how to get them apart quickly now. I know what sells quickly and what's trash. I could make a few easy bucks. I'd have it apart and gone in 2 weeks."

And then I snapped out of it. I don't have any place for my inventory and I don't have a loader tractor here at the house. I have a 40 hour a week job and then farming is thrown on top of that. I don't have time. I'm glad I don't follow my hair brained ideas as often as I used to.

[dazedandconfused]

Caleb find a nice short bed since I need one.

[cmann250]

I'll keep an eye out. I seem to stumble into a lot of 1st gen parts.

[PToombs]

So my manifold is shrinking. What should I replace it with? Stock? 3 piece? What brand?

You haven't decided on this yet? I thought you had it all figured out when I was there 3 weeks ago?

[BC847]

It stays in the outbox until I open it

Took me a while to figure that one out myself.

[Tacoclaw]

Hit another snag in the ongoing ordeal to get my Rhino engine back together, so I just woke up this morning, ate breakfast, and bailed out of town on the bike. Ride from 9 to 7, it would have been later but I hit a downpour and it started getting a little chilly.

[RumbleFish]

So my manifold is shrinking. What should I replace it with? Stock? 3 piece? What brand?

You haven't decided on this yet? I thought you had it all figured out when I was there 3 weeks ago?

Ive had zero time and still recovering from the raping i took from my contractor, as well as finishing what he felt like he didnt have to. Im mainly looking for input as to whether the $329 dps isdecent enough or i should spring for the $468 ats.