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just fine

The narrow tires don't fight the grooves or ruts in the road so bad either

So when you go to install it it needs to be centered. When you find center the flat on the input shaft should be at the top and parallel to the sector shaft cover. There should also be a key on the sector shaft that lines up with the adjuster nut above. After you install the box hook up the...

Something's not right there it gives exactly the same numbers for both the 235s as the 265s

Friends tractor mounted PTO driven snowblower had an incident. All he could get was 1 1/4" square stock. So I took 1/16 off 2 sides. Then I 45 cut the corners to take off the bulk of the material needed to make the corners round. He'll finish it up by hand

Picked up another toolbox yesterday.

Thanks for coming back to update

Did you actually measure how long it need to be? I did mine and I think you could make it long enough so it would be metal to metal. Not ideal but reverse would still work. I welded mine up and then checked the free play.

You're thinking of the front actuator on the differential. There was a kit you could get to convert to the newer style.

Probably won't pick up much big stuff as it's probably caught by the heater core or rad

The snap on mt2500 will work to set it but the number value is off. If he gets desperate he could always use the koko method and just read the value with a scanner

IIRC the gmdt will work with obd2. Never actually used that software so I could be off

What year truck the pump came off doesn't really matter 99.9% of the time. There was an oddball pump in 94 but it's pretty rare to find one now. The number on that pump was 5068

As Doug said most scanners won't do or read it correctly

So on a 98 you can ignore all the time set stuff. That's for obd1. Go right to tdco learn get your number and then adjust to get the tdco you want. I'm wondering if you're stuck in time set and the computer is trying to adjust while it's running.