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    My 07-13 front-end conversion. Would this go here or in the fabrication forum?

    I'm definitely a better grinder than a welder.
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    My 07-13 front-end conversion. Would this go here or in the fabrication forum?

    Thanks for all the kind words, fellas. I'll be putting an album together at some point and posting it up. Thanks. My original plan was to keep the factory hood too and reshape the front to hold the hood trim, but I had to can that because it just wouldn't look right. I like the body line of...
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    My 07-13 front-end conversion. Would this go here or in the fabrication forum?

    I've been working on this conversion on and off for a few months now and down to the last bit of tweaking before bodywork and paint. I was going to put my pics in an album and post it up if anyone is interested. Would it go here or in the fab sub-forum? Thoughts?
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    Nbs steering wheels in your trucks

    This guy is going to kill himself and/or someone else.
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    HVAC controls question

    Rockauto has them too. $90 for the hvac controls without ac buttons, $125 for a/c buttons, and $141 with a/c buttons and rear defrost. New AC Delco.
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    Nasty Evap Core

    I had to soak mine down with purple power for a few hours then blast it with a waterhose. Works awesome now.
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    Hard Start in 96 454. Please Help, this is a doozy

    Your mileage may vary. lol. I had a friend purchase a 76' bronco a few years back from the original owner with only 38k on the clock. That thing was trashed. Not a whole lot of it was usable. "Why", you ask? Because it was purchased brand new and ferried out to an island and used as a...
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    Hard Start in 96 454. Please Help, this is a doozy

    This guy does a really good job of explaining removal and installation of the distributor. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOR-9JZUUI0 He actually over-explains a lot of stuff. It's not as hard as he makes it out to be.
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    Hard Start in 96 454. Please Help, this is a doozy

    Man, you sure are going to a lot of trouble to avoid pulling the distributor. lol
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    Hard Start in 96 454. Please Help, this is a doozy

    I can only attest to the problem with the distributor gear. That is really the only problem that I've ever had with starting my truck. You've checked pretty much everything else except the dist gear and the timing chain. When I could get my truck to crank, it ran fairly well with a bit of hiccuping.
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    Hard Start in 96 454. Please Help, this is a doozy

    It's not hard at all to pull the distributor. Pull the cap off and mark the position of the rotor to the distributor body. Then mark the position of the distributor body to the intake. Unplug the dist. Then crack the retaining bolt loose and slide the lockdown arm away and pull the distributor...
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    Hard Start in 96 454. Please Help, this is a doozy

    Mine started reliably until last week. Got harder and harder to start, then nothing. No telling how long the gear has been like this, but I've got 178k on mine and know nothing of it's mechanical history before my ownership. It just raised my suspicions because out of that laundry list of new...
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    Hard Start in 96 454. Please Help, this is a doozy

    I've been researching hard starts and I found my problem, so I figured I'd just throw this out there... Did you check your distributor gear? My truck gradually got harder to start over a few days then finally quit starting all together. I changed the cap and it started, but it stumbled and...
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    Dashboard cracking permanent fix?

    I lucked out and found a crack-free dash at the pull-a-part. Took it home, cleaned it up, and re-dyed it. The trick is finding one in an suv like tahoe/yukon/etc. as those were more likely to have been garaged.
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    HD Hoods

    The leading edge of the hood is completely different. The only way I could see it happening is to cut the humps out of the new hood and graft them onto the old. Not impossible, but far from bolt-on. I'm doing an '07-'12 front end swap on my obs and decided to rework the leading edge of the...
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    Driver Wiper Going Off Windshield

    The saddles that form the top half of the socket of the ball/socket joint of that rotator assembly are most likely bent. Take them out and straighten them with a hammer. Should look like this _n_ . Your's probably looks like this /-\.
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