Yolanda my TURBINE PRINCESS E350 7.3 powerstroke build to 4x4 pop-top

[Wanderer-RRORC]

Originally Posted by 225

Nice lights! Where at on the Mississippi River were you? I'm a Mississippi River pushboat captain. Just came down from Dubuque, Iowa.

Dang I got distracted and forgot to check here!!

Devil's backbone campground.. I forget the name of the island lemme go look it up..

Tower Rock..

Yeah we had a great time!! Love the area

[Wanderer-RRORC]

Originally Posted by BCam

I love the compass rose graphic. Did you have it custom made?

Sorry man I got distracted and forgot to check here apparently .

I think they were like $26 each.. been on almost a year and look brand new!!

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ended up scoring a rhino rack 270 batwing awning a couple of weeks ago and been doing too much work around the house to get it mounted. We're going camping and 11 days so I wanted to get it installed and get it checked out. I got to say it is way easier to deploy and stow than the ARB awnings and the amount of space is unbelievable underneath it'll cover over my kitchen which also doubles as the bathroom when we're not cooking so we can take showers at any time or go to the potty even if it's raining!!

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Case folks are wondering I have a 5K diesel heater in my long body van the top is not insulated at all. It was 13 degrees last night 17° a night before and this was able to maintain 20° c about 74f - 76°f all day and all night without a problem and it would mostly coast along on medium speed occasionally kicking on the high to catch up after the doors were open

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[SteelheadJones]

Man that's some serious performance.

So maybe only a 2K for a well-insulated RB van with a fixed hightop?

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Originally Posted by SteelheadJones

Man that's some serious performance.

So maybe only a 2K for a well-insulated RB van with a fixed hightop?

Yep.. you would be all set!!!

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Still chasing a little bit of steering wander. Next step after this is new shocks I know I've got one bad one and the fronts are still on 6-in struts extenders

Wanted to share some information on the Econoline steering boxes and how they compared to the F250/350

Looks like the over 4800 GVW steering boxes for the 2003-91 are for the dually with a 36 spline. The card on box is the dually

The stock steering box you can use a longer flat pitman arm from Moog but all of the pitman arms you still have to drill with a 7 degree reamer to go from the van steering box to a Dana 60 F350 stock steering linkages

Also put the stock F-350 steering box and pitman arm up to show the comparison of all the different sizes

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[SteelheadJones]

So it looks like you went with the E350 dually box and Pitman arm?

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Originally Posted by SteelheadJones

So it looks like you went with the E350 dually box and Pitman arm?

Yup... The next post has a whole bunch of information get ready for some overload!!

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OKIE DOKIE!!

some updates on the steering..

I had a good hard look today as Im still dealing with some wandering in the steering. My new box is definitely tighter but its not perfect.
my pitman arm is not as long so I lost the super tight steering circle.. this annoyed me...
the pitman arm is flatter so it did raise the steering angle closer to the draglink.
I got to looking and I think if I drill a longer pitman arm from the top I can flip the steering draglink and be almost 100% parallel and still have good clearance with everything.

so then the hunt for a 36 spline pitman arm thats as long as the one on the 32 spline.

some google fu... and I found it.

MOOG K80796!!!! ordered and waiting on it to show up wednesday!!

stock van moog k80783 is 5.2in long 32 spline
[URL unfurl="true"]https://drivcat.com/overlays/part-detail.aspx?pNum=K80783&partType=Pitman%20Arm&bran dId=MC[/URL]

longer van with end 7* reamed for stock D60 moog k80795 6.5 long 32 spline
[URL unfurl="true"]https://drivcat.com/overlays/part-detail.aspx?pNum=K80795&partType=Pitman%20Arm&bran dId=MC[/URL]

stock dually van end 7* reamed for stock D60 moog k80785 5.2 long 36 spline
[URL unfurl="true"]https://drivcat.com/overlays/part-detail.aspx?pNum=K80785&partType=Pitman%20Arm&bran dId=MC[/URL]

longer dually van end 7* reamed for stock D60 moog k80796 6.5 long 36 spline
[URL unfurl="true"]https://drivcat.com/overlays/part-detail.aspx?brandId=MC&pNum=K80796&partType=Steeri ng%20Pitman%20Arm[/URL]