Recent content by John Carlsen

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    Intake options

    How did that manifold from MP work out? Their marine stuff is usually pretty good. All of the EFI manifolds seem to be priced higher than the carb one's as if it cost more to make.
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    1993 GMC Sierra K1500 Z71

    Very Nice job and presentation. Those wheels really set it off and the offset appears to be correct.
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    K1500 Rear axle swap (6-lug 10-bolt to 6-lug 14-bolt sf)

    Bringing this one Back. Lots of good info here. So It sounds like if you use the parking brake cables from either axle they will work, but not mixed matched. The driveshaft never bottoms out ? Is there enough slide in the splines to prevent this. My SF 14 is coming from the dear shop and I...
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    K1500 AWD SWAP

    the astro van BW transfer case up until the early 90's did have the viscous transfer case, I drove one for a few years and it did work a lot better than the later units trying to electronically switch the front axle into engagement after the wheel sensor report a slip. With the viscous...
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    "Carb" swap question

    Another old thread reply How did you make out with the carb swap? The negativity from tyler is a bit of a bummer. There is no tbi that makes 400 hp and runs good. There is thousands if not hundreds of thousands of sbc running carbs and making good power. The torque curve of the old sbc is...
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    Hot 355 suggestions

    Old Thread But Here is my opinion. Listen to the previous posts and check the cam and compression. The cost of good engine work is the same for a race engine and a truck engine. as stated it looks like a good 300hp engine. If it was in a magazine it would be 400hp budget build. lol Way ahead...
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    Tall Skinny’s

    I put a set of the skinnier 235/85R16 on my 1500 rcsb and they are great in the winter. they do have a bit different handling. more side wall flex around corners for sure.
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    Anti wrap/torque arm

    That is a really severe axle bar mount because they are running next to nothing for leafs.
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    8.25 front parts swapping questions.

    So did the newer diffs with the electric actuator have the little puck or was the mounting different. I just swapped a thermal diff into an electric style and diddn't notice any spacer in the one we took out ( electric acutated) With all the info out there I am wondering if we need the spacer...
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    The Heater control

    Thanks for the info about reliability. I will investigate a bit more. It did work intermittently for a couple of days. Could be just the plugins have a bad contact. I did find a couple of videos on utube. I have had bad luck with the vacuum systems on the squarebodies.
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    The Heater control

    I have just purchased a minty 1990 scsb K1500 with 54000 miles,. It has the dreaded digital heater control with servos to activate the doors. Most of it works. Vent , temp both go up and down as normal. the indicator shows what the system is doing. Are these even available to buy any more...
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