i FINALLY had someone coming to buy my '01.5 cummins 4x4 quad cab
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and he brought cash. we got in it to take a test drive and the 4x4 light kept blinking. scared of buying a lemon, the buyer walked. :-(
i get the truck back home and start looking and found that my damn dogs (5 month old austrailian shepherd breeder pair)had chewed up the black and red vacuum hoses that engage the front drive, see
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for the picture. any idea what im looking at here? how much for the OEM replacement hoses? can i just buy the hoses? any reason why generic hose from an autoparts store wouldnt work? what is the exact name of this part? im beginning to think that fate is trying to tell me not to sell this truck! thanks,
I'm not laughing, Nate... really... I'm not.... :)
Probably more than they're worth.
None whatsoever. Nothing special about them at all - just your basic vacuum hoses. The only thing is if you have enough left on the connector end to splice onto. Let me rummage around my garage tomorrow - I _MIGHT_ still have the stock vacuum lines from my 2500 (converted it to a mechanical linkage for 4x4) kicking around.
heh. three weeks ago they dug up my phone line and chewed it in half. last week they chewed the phone line in half again where it goes into the house from the terminal box. now this. |:(
oh SWEET! let me know something, save me a trip to the local NAPA.
tell me more with as many details as possible about this conversion? id like to do the same thing if i end up keeping the truck.
Suddenly, without warning, Nathan W. Collier exclaimed (5/22/2005 5:06 AM):
Sounds like your dogs are seriously bored. That's the problem with smart dogs - if there's nothing to do, they invent stuff. Usually destructive. Are you going to train them for something? If not, you might consider it - herding, or maybe agility.
I wonder if leaving some hoses out for them to chew will keep them away from the "working" ones...
I'm not a dog expert, but I've seen this sort of activity before, with border collies...
Shoot me your mailing address in an e-mail, and I'll get this on it's way to you Monday.
Pretty simple - Whitey's 4x4 Posi-Lok. It replaces the vacuum motor on the CAD with a cable-actuated shifter. You mount the cable/handle inside the cab, and you can control when the front axle is locked. The really nice benefit is it allows you to engage the transfer case's low range, but leave the front axle unlocked, giving you 2WD-low (great for backing up trailers, because you can make sharp turns on hard pavement, since the front axle isn't engaged). It runs about $200, and takes about 30 minutes to install.
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