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snowflake

snowflake

They're gas 8.1's, they also chose to put the #7 coil pack so close to the firewall that when the truck gets put in situations good enough to flex the suspension/frame it hits the firewall
 
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ossagp

snowflake:
Usually that well thought out electrical system.
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hell I just had a three cylinder points system kick my ass for about 2 hours the weekend before last. compounded that with a person at a NAPA parts counter that told me I would need a specific coil for the John Deere I was working on and nothing else will work. Since she didnt have one for the 1968 ford f100 with a 360 or couldnt find any other coils I told her to just give me the Accel in yellow hanging on the wall. It goes good with the John Deere forklift yellow anyway.
 
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ossagp

snowflake:
They're gas 8.1's, they also chose to put the #7 coil pack so close to the firewall that when the truck gets put in situations good enough to flex the suspension/frame it hits the firewall
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They are not the first people to manage to do that. Volvo W's had some early L series cummins installations where the suspension could under the right conditions allow the OIL FILTER to be hit!! I think it was more of an order the longest filter they could thread up. But someone has to walk when that happens.
 
snowflake

snowflake

ossagp:
They are not the first people to manage to do that. Volvo W's had some early L series cummins installations where the suspension could under the right conditions allow the OIL FILTER to be hit!! I think it was more of an order the longest filter they could thread up. But someone has to walk when that happens.
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The oil filter on Cummins 6.7 f650 ranks up there. It doesn't hit anything but it is a pretty difficult spot
 
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ossagp

The first thing that Volvo said was "The truck should never be overloaded to that point." All I could think of was "welcome to the market in America, Sven."
 
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ossagp

Volvo was using those parabolic springs on that setback axle, they would reach a point and go linear on the compression and if you were turning hard and hit a lump, it could puncture the filter. go to a shorter one on the primary side and it was fine.
 
snowflake

snowflake

I went to the JDM section of a car show, I saw slow people.
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