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  1. Thermo

    35" tires on my 98' ex

    Chuck, will the tires bolt on, oh yeah. Can you drive down the road, been there, done that without any spacers or torsion bar cranking. Will you rub, at any point that the road is not flat. TRUST ME!!!!! Been there, done that. The rear is not much of an issue really. As long as you stick...
  2. Thermo

    Thermo- Dual Fans?

    jay, like I have said, you will get what you pay for. yes, some of the controllers can get expensive. Just for reference, see this controller: New Flex -A- Lite Adjustable Electric Fan Temperature Control Kit, Thermostat | eBay DO NOT BUY THESE!!!!!!!!! JUNK!!!!!!!!!!! These are the wire...
  3. Thermo

    Slow draw on battery

    Elk, first off, I would tell you to get your hands on a multimeter and plug in the multimeter to where fuse F6 goes (may have to hold the leads in place) and set the multimeter to an amp (not mA scale). Now, all of these checks need to be done with the truck off else you can damage the...
  4. Thermo

    Da PAINT!

    While I am not advocating doing this, but to meet the intent of what Ford wants, what you will need to do is to go out and start picking at the rust flakes and getting them off of the body. This will expose more metal which will then rust. The trick is that Ford will not replace until the rust...
  5. Thermo

    Thermo- Dual Fans?

    Jay, you need a minimum of 3000 CFM of air. If you have 2200 CFM from each fan, then you are golden as that would make for 4400 CFM total. On a side note, you want to make the fans a puller, not a pusher. If you need me to explain that, I will. This is better overall since you get more air...
  6. Thermo

    traction-lok application question

    71Rcode, you can install that locker into any 9.75 axle. The differential insides are the same with the exception of a little bit of machining (which requires a different amount of spacers). To the best of my knowledge, all 9.75 axles use 34 spline axle shafts. So, you should be good to go...
  7. Thermo

    Has anyone ever done a dual battery set up?

    jay, I bet if you look, you will find my name mentioned on it. I have helped a lot of the F-150 guys with this upgrade. Remember me mentioning upgrading the ground wires. There you go. A step by step of what needs to be done as it pertains to the ground wires.
  8. Thermo

    traction-lok application question

    If you are looking at swapping just the internals, while they do "bolt" right in, there is a big thing you need to keep in mind. The bearings and whatnot need to be spaced properly else you are going to trash that hear set in a heartbeat. We are talking down to the thousandths of an inch here...
  9. Thermo

    a little shaking

    kiki, take the truck to the auto parts store and have them read the codes. Even though the CEL is out, the code is still in the truck. You should be seeing a P030X code (with the X being a number indicating the cylinder that is bad). I would replace the coil on that cylinder and see what...
  10. Thermo

    Has anyone ever done a dual battery set up?

    jay, As for getting the bigger, badder, alternator, you can go into your local auto parts store and see what they can get for you. Besides, I just checked on e-bay and they have the 3G alternators for our trucks in the 250 amp setup for $170 delivered to your door. As for an alternative to...
  11. Thermo

    Has anyone ever done a dual battery set up?

    On a side note, if you do upgrade the alternator to something larger, it is advisable to also upgrade the ground wires between the body of the truck and the block of the motor and the block of the motor and the battery. Remember, electrical current flows in a circle. You can think of an...
  12. Thermo

    Has anyone ever done a dual battery set up?

    Jay, first off, you can add 10 batteries to your truck, but while it is running, if your voltage is dropping to 12V, the batteries are not going to fix that issue. Batteries are really only there to provide a means to start the motor and to provide a limited amount of noise filtering. End of...
  13. Thermo

    Rear-break, Hazard, and turn signals not working

    The button that you push to activate the hazzard lights, that is the button I am talking about. I am not sure where it is located on your 2007 truck, but on my 97 it is located on top of the steering column all by itself.
  14. Thermo

    Has anyone ever done a dual battery set up?

    Jay, I have done a few dual battery setups in our gen trucks. I will first start off by asking why you think you need a dual battery setup? This will help me figure out what you need and if a dual battery setup is what you even need. This will also help me figure out what batteries you may...
  15. Thermo

    Rear-break, Hazard, and turn signals not working

    RRANDAL, I have seen something like this in the past and you are looking at pretty much 1 thing that can be causing this. You need to replace your hazzard switch.
  16. Thermo

    CAI Installed, Now CEL

    NC-Expy, when I clean my K&N filter, I take a garden hose and spray the living crap out of the filter. The pressure from a garden hose is not enough to damage a K&N filter. With that being said, do NOT!!!! use a pressure washer. That will damage it. Something along the lines of a garden hose...
  17. Thermo

    To Sell or not to Sell

    The trick with a modified truck is finding the person that is willing to pay for the upgrades. I would say that you can try selling it for the $8K price and then see where people go from there. But, you will probably find that very few are going to be wanting a lifted vehicle. so, you are...
  18. Thermo

    Bent Running board

    2001, when i bent my nerf bar on the passenger side (I bent mine up from dropping the truck while out 4x4ing, but the same process will work), what I did was unbolted the nerf bar from the truck, taped the nerf bar to an 8 foot 2x4 (multiple laps may be needed) and then I used the truck to drive...
  19. Thermo

    I really need some advice please

    Semperfi, humor me here. Open up the hood of the truck and look back at #4 plug (back passenger plug, you know that plug that you probably called a few 4 letter words as you were working on it). Look at the top of the motor and see if you see any coolant back there. If so, you have knocked...
  20. Thermo

    Help!!!!

    jbaroni, what year truck are we looking at here? If you are looking at a 97-02, I will place money that your windshield is leaking and is raising hell with the GEM module.
  21. Thermo

    2000 XLT H9 LSD leaking

    DaFish, yes, you are correct in the fact that the pinion seal is toast and you will need a new one. Along those same lines, doing the pinion seal is pretty straight forward, but you will also need your hands on a new crush collar too since you will be undoing the pinion nut to get the flange...
  22. Thermo

    warning to all first gen owners

    Not to question when the tire was lost, but it was a common thing many years back that people would climb under the trucks, cut the cable to the spare tire and steal the spare tires. Since the spares are actual tires, not donuts, you get your hands on 4 spare tires, you have a free set of...
  23. Thermo

    Need help Upgrading my car..

    melissa, like was mentioned, we need an idea of what you are wanting to do to the vehicle and then we can give some guidance as to what you will need to do. Along the same lines, what vehicle are we doing here? Some years are good for lifting, other years are good for high performance. Lots...
  24. Thermo

    Alternator

    YOu can get up to a 250 amp alternator in the stock case. In a lot of cases, it is cheaper to take the alternator to a local DC engineering shop after picking up a spare alternator from the junkyard and have them rebuild the alternator for you with the upgraded parts than to buy one that is...
  25. Thermo

    Car accident

    I would say to drive it down the road and see if things are still straight. I have heard of a lot of guys that have had people slam into the back of their X's and they had nothing more than a few scratches on the bumper. If the truck now pulls to a side, then the frame is bent and you are...

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