Bowtie Brody's Namesake 96 454

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Christian Steffen

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I know; but my luck the first time I'd pull it into 4th I'd wind up with an extra neutral.

Considering I have been doing 4th gear highway pulls from 65-100 with the tcc lock at 4-6 psi, i don't think you're going to hurt your tranmission. I also have about 50K pre boost miles since the stroker of abuse and still no issues (@250k now). If you wanna see what the 4l80e will handle go lurk around sloppy mechanics.
 

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Got my gauge pillar in, it's just mocked up with double sided tape for now; getting at least one of the gauges ordered sometime this week and I'll order the other after pay day.
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When I push the button to select it's only flashing the 4Hi or 4Lo lights, I hear the transfer case kick but the front diff won't engage.
 

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When I push the button to select it's only flashing the 4Hi or 4Lo lights, I hear the transfer case kick but the front diff won't engage.
My 96 done that this morning. I'll be replacing the diff actuator at lunch if you want me to update to see if it fixes the issue
 

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Okay update time! OR lack thereof.
I bought my girl a camera for her birthday and she insisted on going for a photoshoot at this old gas station that's like straight out of 98; super cool.
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I haven't done jack **** to it in the last 2 weeks. I tried to find and seal up my leak on the passenger side with no luck, so I guess I'll have to pull it all back apart. There's an intermediate higher RPM belt squealing that might be the junky tensioner and/or idler pulley.
The parts pile isn't dwindling but it's not expanding either. I need to get the Big 3 done but I want to throw on an AD244, new Odyssey battery, clean up the 0411 wiring/tow mirror wiring/etc. etc. etc.; still trying to make up my mind on if I want to have some bigger injectors thrown in when I get ready for the dizzy, the fuel pump is still hanging on so that's good.
Then there's some other upgrades like a new 3" thick 3-core fully aluminum rad I've been eye balling from Cold-Case, I'm pretty well convinced at this point after towing almost 9500 pounds I'm going to do the NBS knuckle mod, but there's a few things I'm still not 100% about like the tie-rods. Also trying to figure out master cylinder that'll work with the future rear disc as well as give the brakes a firmer pedal. P30 MC? Or maybe the Express one? Any ideas there?

Still haven't decided on the 4WD situation, I may just buy the electronic actuator instead of trying to dick around with the cable kit or having the front diff permanently engaged and run the risk of tearing **** up. Still waiting on the 4.10 gears, the truck in the yard with them didn't get scrapped so I'm hopeful. Probably also going to pull the trigger on a new hitch, new brake controller and new 7/4 pin as some of that stuff is getting haggard due to me either trying to un-hack what the POs did, or what I had to hack to make it work.

I'm somewhat debating on starting a new thread dedicated for actual updates instead of the incessant rambling of me going off about plans and other stupid **** but I dunno yet. I'd have to recover some photos so I could start from the beginning again.
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