Slapperbar
Retired Navy NDT Examiner
Cool it Thermo-Flex, good to over 1K of direct heat.
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Crew cab. Use it or lose it.
- Thread starter cybrfire
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Cool it Thermo-Flex, good to over 1K of direct heat.
I am not sure of the design of that one, but it will either do that, or leak past the piston and into the cab where the pedal rod enters the cylinder to push on the piston. You'd have to look at the design and see where it would go if it leaked past the piston.
They might be onto something with the heat issue too if it's close to the headers. I use the Thermotec wrap, good to 2000 degrees, on the stuff near my headers. But you have to have one end loose to slip it over the hose/wire. I think the fully enclosed stuff is better than the slit open stuff though.
oldtoyboyd
1/2 ton status
Kert, have you looked into the nv4500 master/slave conversion setup that Scott(crewcab59) makes.
Kert,
On my Franken Clutch (dodge '99 up small bore slave & GM square body master cylinder on a cummins/nv4500 Sqare body crew cab build) I used a bleeding technique I learned from the cummins guys. Hook the system up as it would be normally. half fill the reservoir with fluid leaving room for air to burp up. Then crawl underneath and stroke the slave cylinder compressing the piston in (opposite the normal operating direction). This pushes any air back up through to the reservoir. keep adding fluid and stroking the slave till all the air is worked out. This worked great for my truck and the clutch feels great, although the truck has not been out on the road yet.
...Jason
On my Franken Clutch (dodge '99 up small bore slave & GM square body master cylinder on a cummins/nv4500 Sqare body crew cab build) I used a bleeding technique I learned from the cummins guys. Hook the system up as it would be normally. half fill the reservoir with fluid leaving room for air to burp up. Then crawl underneath and stroke the slave cylinder compressing the piston in (opposite the normal operating direction). This pushes any air back up through to the reservoir. keep adding fluid and stroking the slave till all the air is worked out. This worked great for my truck and the clutch feels great, although the truck has not been out on the road yet.
...Jason
Nothing leaking into the cab. I've looked for that.
Next time I need to pull the slave, master or whenever I decide I've exhausted all other possibilites, I'd be game for pulling the line and putting on the heat wrap.
Never heard of it. Got a link?
Yep, read about that technique somewhere online as well. Did that too. It's been bled every way from sunday. Slave up, slave down, pumped from both ends.
Is it me or is this thread really starting to sound bad....
Here is what I use, they have several different lengths and different diameters. Luckily stuff near the headers is short, because this stuff is expensive...
http://www.summitracing.com/search/...t-Line/Thermo-Tec-Thermo-Sleeve/?autoview=SKU
By the way, I received my shackles and shock tabs. Thank you. And those shackles are beefcake! It's good they go on the rear, they'll help balance my weight distribution!
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Yeah this thread is starting to sound bad
oldtoyboyd
1/2 ton status
Here is the link on 4btswap. I have the full kit with slave for mine. It has a larger master that puts out more volume.
http://www.4btswaps.com/forum/showthread.php?10296-GM-Hyd-parts
http://www.4btswaps.com/forum/showthread.php?10296-GM-Hyd-parts
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oldtoyboyd
1/2 ton status
Here are the pics.
They may also be in the cummins conversion thread.
They may also be in the cummins conversion thread.
Started in on the front bumper today.
Got the brackets done. This one is designed specifically for what it seems we're always needing to do around the shop.
I call it the "Sumo." For pushin' **** around.
Got the brackets done. This one is designed specifically for what it seems we're always needing to do around the shop.
I call it the "Sumo." For pushin' **** around.
Is this something your going to making for the masses?Started in on the front bumper today.
Got the brackets done. This one is designed specifically for what it seems we're always needing to do around the shop.
I call it the "Sumo." For pushin' **** around.
Slapperbar
Retired Navy NDT Examiner
That made to a gauntlet = Awesome!
No reason not to I guess. Was just building it for my purposes so far. We make so many custom bumpers sometimes I question the sanity of trying to have a production piece.
That made to a gauntlet = Awesome!
That is exactly what is going on here. A little modifying here and tweakin' there and presto, built in protection for the grill. I just put all that grill stuff in and don't feel like tearin' it up.
The upright plates are 3/8" thick and the center 3/8" of the 1 1/8" thick clevis points. The uprights will also be wrapped with 1 1/8" wide 1/4" thick strip to carry the beef look up all the way to the top.
The fuzz started hasslin' me about not having a front license plate or bumper. He kinda new what was going on though, knowing what I do for a living. He was pretty cool about it, and then we talked about trucks on the side of the highway.
y5mgisi
1 ton status
oooo thats going to looks so pretty when its done!
No reason not to I guess. Was just building it for my purposes so far. We make so many custom bumpers sometimes I question the sanity of trying to have a production piece.
That is exactly what is going on here. A little modifying here and tweakin' there and presto, built in protection for the grill. I just put all that grill stuff in and don't feel like tearin' it up.
The upright plates are 3/8" thick and the center 3/8" of the 1 1/8" thick clevis points. The uprights will also be wrapped with 1 1/8" wide 1/4" thick strip to carry the beef look up all the way to the top.
The fuzz started hasslin' me about not having a front license plate or bumper. He kinda new what was going on though, knowing what I do for a living. He was pretty cool about it, and then we talked about trucks on the side of the highway.
That's it Kert, get him hooked on these trucks!
good looking stout front bumper there man!
The fuzz started hasslin' me about not having a front license plate or bumper. He kinda new what was going on though, knowing what I do for a living. He was pretty cool about it, and then we talked about trucks on the side of the highway.
To bad I wasn't with, you would have gotten a ticket
It will be, got a ways to go yet. I'll keep postin' pics as I make progress on it. If the po-po sees a little progress here and there, he'll most likely leave me be. I mean, if a license plate is for identification, it's really not necessary on this truck at all around here.
To bad I wasn't with, you would have gotten a ticket
No joke! You have a way of bringing out the mean side of law enforcement.
magik235
Still Alive
I like it.
speedfreekk
1/2 ton status
May have to order that front bumper, I been wanting to build one like it.
