Bought a CC Dually 454 Whipple

Supercharged111 said:

Did more hauling since running it dry on oil twice, seems unaffected so that's reassuring. The inside of the camper doesn't feel like burnt oil every time we stop either so that's a good proof of concept on my crank vent line. It also seems like it didn't burn any oil to climb from 6000' to close to 10,000' which is new. Got to spend a night in BFE, wish I could have spent more.

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Might want to think about unlatching your tiedowns from the truck. In case of fire, you want to be able to get the truck away quickly. Also, some jackpads made out of wood would be good too.

Supercharged111 said:

Forgot to mention this little bass turd.

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I don't ever recall encountering one of these on any other truck before. If there's a trick to it I didn't find it, I ended up shoving 2 picks in there and prying it open just enough to get the thing out of its ridge.

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This POS here, did you just shove it back on the rod when you went back together?

Supercharged111 said:

The figure 8 seals the housing up.

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I thought it was strange to find so much junk that came out of the booster, I'd just done a power steering system purge last year but thinking back I only pushed fresh fluid through the box and not the booster. It went right back together as easily as it came apart. I really don't know why folks bother taking them out if they're just going to be lazy like me and do the 2 seals. There was a problem though. I managed to make the leak much worse. I tore the damned piston seal when reassembling the thing and turned an ignorable leak into something so bad I couldn't even drive the truck. Were I back home, no big deal, go park the thing and let it sit until a new seal kit shows up in the mail in 2 days. Out here in Commiefornia? No 2 day shipping, and I head back home this Friday. So I had the privilege Sunday of handing over $400 to Napa for an overpriced reman. F me. Got that all back in and the truck is back with a slightly improved pedal feel. I'm thinking the original could use a full on rebuild, so I'll get another seal kit coming and do just that. Gotta figure out how the back half comes apart, I read on a Duramax forum it's a real asspain. Oh, and when I put it back together the first time and it started leaking I made a HUGE mess in the driveway. And forgot to run the accumulator down before 2nd disassembly because I was pissed and it sprayed everywhere.

Forgot to mention this little bass turd.

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I don't ever recall encountering one of these on any other truck before. If there's a trick to it I didn't find it, I ended up shoving 2 picks in there and prying it open just enough to get the thing out of its ridge.

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Sorry for the late-as-possible reply but in case anybody else is looking, when I pull those clips I just spread the split a little with a small flat screwdriver while pushing from behind with a gasket scraper or similar tool wedged in there so it moves the moment you spread it. Pretty sure this is the brake pedal clip design from 1995-up.

frito-bandito said:

This POS here, did you just shove it back on the rod when you went back together?

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Yep, it just pushes back on. The split in it will spread as it goes on and then it clicks back into place.

Richard

Minn95Dually said:

Might want to think about unlatching your tiedowns from the truck. In case of fire, you want to be able to get the truck away quickly. Also, some jackpads made out of wood would be good too.

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I have some 2x8 and 2x10 bits cut out for that and levelling, but in CO I don't sink the feet into the dirt. Here in MI now the feet are sitting on those pads.



Gonna relocate to a different spot on the property tomorrow or the next day as we've cleared a bit of it since we arrived.

Today I snuck in a 4HI mod. One of those things I wish I'd done sooner. No pics, forgot to grab any, but just picture 4 nice clean white beams emanating from some sweet Brazilian headlight housings and that should give an idea.

Supercharged111 said:

Today I snuck in a 4HI mod. One of those things I wish I'd done sooner. No pics, forgot to grab any, but just picture 4 nice clean white beams emanating from some sweet Brazilian headlight housings and that should give an idea.

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nice.... i need to do that.

Supercharged111 said:

Today I snuck in a 4HI mod. One of those things I wish I'd done sooner. No pics, forgot to grab any, but just picture 4 nice clean white beams emanating from some sweet Brazilian headlight housings and that should give an idea.

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Headlights and a sweet Brazilian brings up a slightly different image in my mind.

skylark said:

Headlights and a sweet Brazilian brings up a slightly different image in my mind.

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Damn I totally missed this post!

Today the parking brake suddenly stopped doing its thing at the hangar so I brought it home and yanked it apart, non-slip off drums and all.



That little guy was flopping around behind the shoes. Turns out the thing it engages had bent forward enough for the cable to just pop right out. The other side looked pretty well not deformed, so I banged this side back into shape on the vise's anvil and put it right back in. OL, so that's and understatement. That rear nail thingy can suck it! There's like 15 things going on there and none of them are conducive to getting that spring back on. It doesn't help that it's within an iota of coil bind. Getting that back on was hands down the worst part of the whole process. Once that was done the rest of the drum brake setup snapped right back into place. And then I had a nice little scare with a wheel seal. The spring fell out of the seal on the driver's side as I was sending it in. I thought I was f00k3d, but then I put 30 seconds of thought and effort into it and got that spring back into place.



I initially held the spring up with a small flat blade screwdriver and dragged the rest back up with this door panel popper. From here it was smooth sailing and I have a parking brake once again. I will need to top off the diff tomorrow and reset the parking brake adjustment, it was cold and dark when I got the thing back on the ground today. What this means now is that I can resume my hackardly attempts to make the plow truck's frame more less bad. I got it to budge 2 days ago, but need about 4 more of those to get the truck to track straight. Here's what may have led to the failure in the first place.



Dually was the anchor, plow truck had rear wheel chocks, and 1500 was living a duty of ignorance. I recorded a video to see how much the wheel was moving by jerking on the lower control arm and was shocked to see pretty much no movement on the plow truck while crap was going everywhere beating on the 1500. Good way to decide the way ahead. And that is to hook the dually rear hitch to 2 points on the plow truck frame to immobilize it, yank the passenger front wheel off of the plow truck, and apply more ignorance with the 1500 while recording video to observe effectiveness. I need to move the passenger rail out almost an inch to get it back where it needs to be as measured at the rear of the front control arms.

Taking redneck to a whole new level!

Supercharged111 said:

passenger front wheel off of the plow truck, and apply more ignorance with the 1500 while recording video to observe effectiveness.

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