Fixing my K5 impulse buy

[Alan2smiley]

The steel lines were a mess so I thought I'd go with push lock, these are the 5/16" fittings for the transmission cooler lines, the one on the left is 15/64" ID, the one on the right is 11/64" ID and they have the same part numbers. Three out of the four are larger but the parts store couldn't source a matching forth one.

 

[76zimmer]

Those look like Parker brass fittings if that might help you run some down

 

[Alan2smiley]

I should of order them online, they would of been 1/2 the price, the right ones and matching.

 

[Alan2smiley]

Yeah I'll put the larger one on the transmission and and order one more for the radiator. If I wasn't so dam particular and wanted it to look like something the PO would do I'd put a regular barbed fitting with a clamp beside the push lock.

 

[Alan2smiley]

OMG! The end I took the picture of is by the transfercase, LoL. I'll Check it out after I get some other stuff back together. Thanks!

 

[Alan2smiley]

Ok, so is this cable made for a different type of attachement at the transfercase?

 

[Alan2smiley]

There is no nut.

 

[Talon762]

Probably broke off, when i replaced mine it was just plastic but the repro was metal, surprisingly

 

[campfire]

The boots were on when I took them out of the box, the drain is on bottom of the boot, shit rolls down hill and I can read the writing on the shock when the tires are on the dirt.

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Interesting. It doesn't make a difference, but in order to read my 5100 stickers I had to put the bodies on top.

I also skipped the boots entirely. No use trapping water and salt in there by the seals. If I lived in a dry place I'd think differently.

 

[campfire]

Probably broke off, when i replaced mine it was just plastic but the repro was metal, surprisingly



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Yeah, the metal nut isn't very strong. If you use channel locks to remove it, it's easy to crush. The easiest answer is to just buy a new speedo cable. They're very cheap (Summit or Amazon), and a new one should turn more freely than an old one.

 

[Alan2smiley]

Body down on the Dodge.

 

[Truckman4life]

Interesting. It doesn't make a difference, but in order to read my 5100 stickers I had to put the bodies on top.

I also skipped the boots entirely. No use trapping water and salt in there by the seals. If I lived in a dry place I'd think differently.

Not to beat a dead horse but that was my initial thought, that they installed whichever direction to be able to read the sticker correctly.

 

[Alan2smiley]

A new sending unit should give the fuel gauge accurate information without the plastic tray beating the crap out of the sending unit float.

 

[Alan2smiley]

Before and after pictures of transmission crossmember. The fuel gauge seems to work fine and I started it for the first time today.

 

[Alan2smiley]

I owned it for six months and drove it for the first time today. Open exhaust so kinda hard to tell how it runs but it makes noise.

 

[Alan2smiley]

I was looking through some papers that came with it.

 

[Alan2smiley]

I smiled when I took it out of 4x and the high beam light turned off

 

[imiceman44]

I owned it for six months and drove it for the first time today. Open exhaust so kinda hard to tell how it runs but it makes noise.

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I owned a suburban 16 years and drove it for the first time a few months ago.
Drove it a couple of times with bad brakes and then I had to pull the heads off.

 

[Alan2smiley]

Like I've said many times, I don't fish, hunt, go to the bar (much) or watch humans play with balls but I do hang out in the shop.

 

[ZooMad75]

Pretty cool you found the CK5 printouts in the truck. Talk about coming full circle.