Is it possible that you left a oil gallery plug out somewhere inside the engine? I just rebuilt mine and cold at idle i'm running 75psi cold and 38psi warm at idle with a standard volume oil pump. Did you check your bearing clearances when it was rebuilt?

Couldn't you just cut the a hole for the shifter?

They are sold by Lund http://www.lundinternational.com/ProductListing.aspx?mmcode=1120352&vqid=2104,772&brand=lund_int

I haven't had this problem but I have heard of it over at FTE. Lots of people say you have to lay it out in the sun for a while but 3" is quite a bit

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http://www.boxwrench.net/specs/ford_429-514.htm

I can give you some random spec if you like or you could lets us know what engine you would like specs for.

Thanks for answering my question then!

Thanks for the offer I ordered the dakota dash today. Do you use the same user name of FTE? I'm F150north over there.

That would be great but I'm about 12 hours away from the border

I agree it is pricey but the thing I like about it is that it has a built in tach and I just have the idiot light and it comes with a oil pressure gauge/sender so I could clean up my dash by getting rit of a water, oil, and tach gauges. The other thing is I'm in canada and none of the places I...

My backing plate is rotten and falling apart has anyone tried one of the replacements? I see there available at NPT, LMC, dennis carpenter, classic auto parts and bronco graveyard. ThanksI also found that dakota digital has a replacement gauges but can't find out if it replaces the backing...

Well I ended up dropping the tank and got about a gallon and a half of the dirty gas out of it. There was quite a bit of the same stuff I found in the carb in the tank and I tried pouring it through a kim tuff towel but it would go right through. Truck runs good now with the rebuilt carb and...

Don't think I haven't thought about it! Mines only a f100 so it would be a lot of weight on the front end that is what holds be back. I still got a cummins to get my diesel fix!

If you really want to see my cummins I can post it but it's not a gen 6 so I didn't think it was appropriate.