I'll give my two cents worth of advice,My exprience with my bxs acert has also been a good one at 800K only major work done to mine is water pump...
Before I posted I did a search on threads and didn't find one that's why I posted it.Sorry if it ended up being a re-post of a sort...
For all the O/O's on this forum that don't know yet, I just found out from my cpa that the IRS has given us a 3 mo. Extension on filing your form...
Thanks for the heads up,But if I'm not mistaken the freeze plugs that I used were made out of brass or at least they looked like it....been DOT'ed...
FYI,Mine have been on since sometime in 2008 (about 450K miles ago) and are still on.They actually go on pretty tight.
C'mon guy's,I'm just trying to be helpful by sharing what I did and not to turn this into a haters post....If you can benefit from this fine if...
Adding my 2cent's,my bxs (475hp) accert has 730K on odometer and a little over 750K on ECM (spedo head off a little) and aside from adding about 2...
What symptoms were you getting before turbo's went out,only reason I ask is mine started making a kinda rattling noice at high speed's and seem's...
I got 568k on mine with no big problem's,also getting mid 6's on fuel mileage running 65 # 1475rpm.
Ive had good result's with "Gord's" all. polish and a high speed buffer.It really work's good on faded or yellow headlight's.
Yup The Donaldson's are less pricey also you might also check out the dynaflexe's, I got a pair for my shacker for about $120 out the door.
Ask your tire shop for something called "Equal" I tried it on a set of new steer tire's last month and seems to work good , paid an additional $25...
Don't know if you done it yet but maybe a freeflow muffler,My Acert became a whole different motor after the muffler change.I've seen 6.5 pretty...
Like Brickhauler said I would bet my money on corosion at the plug . All of the obove advice is very good but I do have to add is that you get...
I couldnt find the PaulE's thread you talked about, which one was it?
Put a couple of Dynaflexe's,They are cheap and look like a factory job for around $55. BTW it will be kinda hard to break the cat/converter while...
Anybody leased on with Bruce Oackley of Little Rock Ar.
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Mine a little over 19K W/full 140's.'04' FL Classic 240WB W/Cat & 10sp.
Heard a couple of driver's talking on the radio the other day about a retro kit that was done at Peterbilt,Which basically was a fuel filter mount...
