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"NEW"- 99 7.3L long bed crew cab manual - mbryson support vehicle

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Looks like I will have trouble finding F*rd specific connectors to salvage the harness that got hacked. Of course that's the harness that runs all the way to the front of the truck. I'm hoping I can get https://amazon.com/dp/B0BZBZHVQ6?psc=1&ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details these to work out?

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They'll be here Friday but I have other plans for Friday/Sat/Sun(?) so fixing this will likely have to wait until Monday-Tuesday? I'll pack those pretty full of di-electric and hope for the best. We'll see how it goes.


I poked around a bit for the Cruise Control in the fuse box while I was playing with the trailer related fuses. Didn't come up with anything. We'll work on that another day. I really am growing to like the truck a bit. It has some warts but for a cheap truck, I think it'll do what I need it to for quite a few years?

Still waiting on plates from the state but I have a temp registration and insurance so I drive the truck a bit. I think I've put about 150 miles on it so far. I don't get out much working from home.


I'm curious how the truck will start in the winter. It sounded like there were glow plugs put in the truck fairly low mileage ago but I don't know if they are Motorcraft or garageatronics flavor of the month. It has NO trouble starting even after not driving it for 2-3 days but it's not exactly cold right now.

A couple of minor oil leaks (looks like from the oil filter gasket and a bit on the drain plug) in a 7.3L. It has smoked marker lights that seem to leak. I'll have to replace those (I hate marker lights but it's a 350, they mostly have those) with some OEM stuff. Everything else looks reasonably serviceable/serviced. This trailer wiring harness seems to be the biggest wart so far. Tough to complain about that for the shape the rest of the truck is in for the mileage. It looks decent from 20-30' away. Good enough for me. Interior is really clean but a little worn. It's a good honest truck so far.
 
Good to hear you’re enjoying it! I had a similar rats nest of wiring on my trailer plug and the factory wires were difficult to solder for some reason?

Yes to Motorcraft sensors and glow plugs. Just be careful where you get them from. Fakes are all over the place and they’re getting very hard to spot.

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Fake Motorcraft glow plugs?? Here are clues... - Ford Truck Enthusiasts Forums

1999 - 2003 7.3L Power Stroke Diesel - Fake Motorcraft glow plugs?? Here are clues... - Short story - customer supplied Motorcraft glow plugs for me to install. 30k miles later (one year) truck is having cold start smoke issues. It fogs out the county with choking, eye watering, blue smoke...
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@ebryson did some pretty precise work hacking the old harness and putting in a new weatherpack type connector. Trailer harness is good to go last week sometime. I just funded the project while he rolled his eyes at my "skills" in wiring. We moved onto fixing my trailer brakes for our wiring fun of late.

Still liking this truck quite a bit. I've used almost a quarter tank of deezel in it so far. This truck is BARELY an XLT with the rubber floor and such. I do have cloth seats, power windows and locks (locks need the updates that all Stuper Duty of this era need) and that's about it. It's a seemingly solid old dawg and should give me the service I'm looking for out of it. Previous owner named it "Sally". I'm not sure if that's sticking or not? "Tree-fiddy" seems to be the going name so far.

I'm surprised how much I wanted the manual trans and how much I have forgotten about driving a manual trans around town. Hill starts and such, I've had to relearn things a bit. I killed it once at a stoplight because I had the truck in 3rd rather than 1st. Just things you need to relearn or learn about the truck/car you're driving. There's good and bad there. Mostly good but I've admittedly become pretty lazy about the automagic transmissions. This vs the 4R100, I'll take the manual every time.

I still need to figure out the cruise control issue. Seems like it could be a number of sensors and/or the clockspring. The horn works, so internet legend is that the clockspring is good.

There's some kind of wiring gremlin with the left turn signal you get some feedback through the aftermarket stereo. Not real impressed with the stereo install so I'm putting my $ on an installation issue of some kind (and that might fix the cruise depending on what that's plugged into).

Has anyone added power mirrors to something like this? Is the wiring in the door and I just need to buy mirrors and the factory window switch panel with the power mirror switch/joystick? More involved than that?
 
I've changed door mirrors a couple of times, but not to the power extending version. My current (favorite) are the '10 model year version because the view is so much better. They are manual folding/extending, but have the running light in them. The wiring for the light was not in the door and had to be run from under the dash. My truck is a '02 MY. I'd suspect there is not wiring for power mirrors in your doors.

FYI, I bought the mirrors from these guys, they are good quality and are very close to the OEM in terms of build strength - I've had no problems in the 10ish years I've had them : https://www.1aauto.com/
 
I’ve also got the newer mirrors on my truck and I love them. @Die Blaue Ziege has them too with heat if I remember correctly?

The stock mirrors were more bad than good they sucked haha. My new mirrors came with an adapter plug to plug into the factory harness. Not sure if yours will be wired for it or not?
 
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Just to a flat fender meet on Wednesday night. Hadn't towed with the F350 yet, thought it wise to make sure all systems were go before heading to Moab on a CJ run on Saturday. All tires are aired up. Diesel is dieseling. Truck chassis is up to snuff.

I was able to exercise my clutch leg on the freeway as I got caught in a closure for an accident. Apparently a fatality for someone changing their tire in the HOV lane. Cost me about 75 minutes and 200+ clutch cycles. Not near as much cost as the person with the flat tire that got hit



On a much lighter and more informational note than the accident/fatality that closed the freeway, the F350 is an amazing handling truck when you hook to a trailer. Even this old pile. They just handle loads. That's what they do. They do it well.

I'm super curious how this stock truck will handle Thistle hill and the long pull to Soldier Summit. Hoping for similar performance as Sweaty Betty. Also the steep dawg hill coming home just before Wellington. I hope I'm not in 3rd gear there but I'll be SHOCKED if I can pull it in 5th (1:1). Hoping 4th gear and 2500-2600 rpm gets me 55 mph up that hill
 
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