The Official PSA Duramax gets Built Ford Tough!

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HotRodTractor

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Chevy1925 said:
Well I know Toby knows his chet. Looks like those springs are a progressive rate so if you jumped it, as the suspension moved through its travel, the increasing spring rate wouldn't be linear. So it will feel soft for normal driving.

If you can find out how much the shock collapse s with the preload collar just barely holding the spring with the shock fully extended, then tell me where you want the actual ride height along with how much down travel there is at ride height and up travel left at ride height, I can give some suggestions on springs. it also wouldn't hurt to pick Toby's brain as I'm sure others may have set their height where you are. He may tell you right off the bat, "no you can't do that because blah blah blah" or "oh ok, put this spring on".

Btw, super clean work man. Truck is bad ass looking
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I'm going to leave it alone for a while until I get some more stuff done and get some time on it to let things settle out a bit. Then if I need to tweak some stuff around I will - but I'm kind of liking its stance at the moment up front even if it is a bit bigger than I was intending.

Thanks for the compliment - its been a LONG road with a few turns on it that was unexpected. lol
 
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Nice! was wondering if that would work or not... What did you have to do to accomplish this?
 
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solored said:
Nice! was wondering if that would work or not... What did you have to do to accomplish this?
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The tcase is modified to accept an use the 263 electronic shifting mechanism - the front hubs are the new style constant vacuum - I've got a small electric vacuum pump out of a Ford SuperDuty that I am going to put on a toggle switch in the cab - so then I use the electronic 4x4 switch to select what mode and range and then activate the front axle - then I can have 2hi, 4hi, 4lo, and 2lo (for backing trailers and such).

At least that is the plan I have the tcase working, but haven't had time to get the vacuum system wired in to make it work - all the lines are ran on the axle and up to where I plan on mounting the pump.
 
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solored

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very cool. But right now you have 4hi and 2wd? vacuum lines for the 4lo and 2lo settings ran separately?

Either way man, you did a bang up job. I am looking into, and mot likely will be doing a SAS, and what you have on yours for components is basically what I hope to run. Looks super good!
 
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solored said:
very cool. But right now you have 4hi and 2wd? vacuum lines for the 4lo and 2lo settings ran separately?

Either way man, you did a bang up job. I am looking into, and mot likely will be doing a SAS, and what you have on yours for components is basically what I hope to run. Looks super good!
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The vacuum lines are only to lock in the front hubs - so I can do that from the cab because I'm lazy. lol

Anyway - I'm driving the truck although I have a TON of stuff that I need to do to it before I am really happy with everything.... but I don't have a choice - my TDI is hating life right now and just is not currently a reliable form of transportation unless I am relying on it to leave me on the side of the road.

I've got some stuff to look at and it'll keep me busy, but I probably have 500 miles on the truck now just using it for errands and now since its my primary mode of transportation to and from work - I'll be racking up over a 100 miles a day. Maybe I can get the A/C working this weekend and maybe the interior put back together and maybe have a radio again. lol
 
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Cleaned up a bit, still a lot of work to do, but I am getting all the little details ironed out and getting ready to rock.

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Just hauling a little load to Northern Indiana a few weeks back:
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Here are my dyno runs from my tuning session out at Danville Performance on Friday. The truck has 37x13.50 tires and 4.10 gears so the runs were made in 4th gear to keep tire speed down and also the load considering the truck still has a stock bottom end. There is a possibility that I have a boost leak that I need confirm and locate simply because we were only getting about 30psi of boost on the rollers with the load cell maxed out - it could also have to do with unique combo of parts on the truck. I see 45psi of boost on the street. After we were done with these runs we did make one run in 5th gear in the big tune - the torque came up quite a bit with fattening out the bottom end and picking up power along the curve and just marginally shifting the peak power from the 4th gear run. I'm sure that there are those that will say the numbers on the piece of paper produced by the tuning tool sound low for my combo - I'm OK with it. It runs awesome and it is still a stock bottom end truck that runs very clean. I'm very happy with the setup. S483/72mm VGT compunds, 60% sticks, 10mm CP3 pump, lots of air in and air out type parts, etc.... max pulse of 1900us.
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I'm very happy with how this thing is coming around. Some more clean up work and some more tweaking and it will ready to just drive and enjoy! :D
 
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Hot COCOAL

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635/1100 on 37's with 4.10's AND A STOCK BOTTOM END!!!!

WOW


that sounds amazing and perfect at the same time!!!

Congratulations:thumb: I love your truck, glad to see all your efforts pay off, good luck workin out the little stuff:thumb:

:rockon:


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Hot COCOAL said:
635/1100 on 37's with 4.10's AND A STOCK BOTTOM END!!!!

WOW


that sounds amazing and perfect at the same time!!!

Congratulations:thumb: I love your truck, glad to see all your efforts pay off, good luck workin out the little stuff:thumb:

:rockon:


:hail2:
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Thanks! Its been a long road and the devil is always in the little details! lol
 
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