Recent Content by Racer Brown

FINAL UPDATE: Well, FYI that brake warning light problem I had now belongs to the guy that offered me $14,000 CASH for my truck last week before I had it worked on! Needless to say I was happy to sell it for that as that was more than what I paid for it when I bought it in December of 2000...

Thanks for the info. Looks like I'll be taking it to the garage this coming week. I don't need it since I sold the last car and trailer I had in March of 2022 so plan now is to fix it and sell it. I'm heading for 78 years old in September and with bad health it's hard for me to work on it...

Well, you just lost me cuz I got no clue what half of that stuff is. I guess I need to get my service manual out and see if I can find out....... Just saying.................

Don't know if it matters or not, but when the brake light in the dash comes on there is also a yellow ABS light on as well. Maybe it's time to sell it! Just saying...................

Don't remember the exact temp but it was probably in the mid to upper 40 degree range when it first started doing this? I've driven it several times in the past couple of weeks and temps then were in the mid 60s and it was doing the exact same thing. So are you thinking this is temperature...

I’ve got a 93 Dodge W350 LE, 5 speed, Diesel with 132K miles on it. The truck has been kept in my shop since I bought it in 2000 with 78K miles on it and I only used it to tow my race car trailers over the years. Sold my last race car back in 2015 and the truck hasn’t been used much since with...

Nothing done yet! Well, it's Christmas, hunting season has been in, my computer repair business has been swamped and I'm in the process of having ISDN service put in my home, all that along with working a full time job. That hasn't left much time for anything else, including the Dodge! The way...

Repair method. I was thinking of something that could be glued on the back side to keep that from happening. I'm an industrial maintenance mechanic and we use some plastic shim stock for alignment on some of our machinery. That stuff is tuff as nails and thin too. I'm going to cut some backup...

I've noticed that the plastic trim inside my truck is starting to crack and break apart. All the cracks are where the screws are that hold it on. I can see this becoming an expensive problem. Anyone else have this happen to their truck trim?:mad: ... ... ... See Ya!... ... ... Racer

Does it fit? Piers, that housing was mentioned in the other thread but no one knew where to find one. Is this a "direct replacement" housing or will I have to modify the down pipe to fit? Also, my truck has 4:10 gears in it and I don't mind turning it to the governor in each gear when I pull...

OK, here's the deal. After all the comments in my previous post, and taking into account what Big Don has said. I think I'm going to go to the 14cm2 housing. My truck just doesn't build boost as fast as I want and from what I've heard from the guys that have gone from the 18 to the 16, there's...

HOLD ON A MINUTE, QUESTION! You can correct me if I'm wrong here but isn't the waste gate's function to allow excess exhaust to bypass the turbo? There has to be a point in the upper RPM range where there is more exhaust gas to pass than the 12cm2 housing will let go through, hence the waste...

I've been reading a bunch of the posts on the smaller turbo housings that are available. My 93 has the 18cm2 housing and I noticed that many of you have changed to the 16cm2 housings. With what I know about turbochargers now and what I want from mine, I'm leaning more to the 14cm2 housing with a...

Clark 5 speed You're right Matt, that Clark trans is not an overdrive unit. I'd thought about that myself but with 4:10s, that just wouldn't work. Now if your truck is geared 3:08 or something, well now, that's a different story. For the life of me, I can't figure out why Dodge didn't gear...

Oil Overfill.....Well,.... No Cowboy, I didn't park it on a hill to over fill it. Actually, I put the extra oil in when the transmission was sitting on my work bench with the top off..... :D I do, however, have a 90 degree street elbow in the side of the case and an extension nipple on that...