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My tow pig/DD build thread. F350/Cummins 6.7/twins/6R140
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[QUOTE="me2, post: 341976, member: 3825"] I have several projects on the go today. Mount 5th Wheel Hitch My wife wants our 5er at the house this weekend so that we can prep it for next weekend's camping trip. I plan to pull it with my F350, so I need to get the 5th wheel hitch mounted in it. I used a Hijacker SL16 dual pivot hitch in my old truck. I found a set of used bed rails for it, so I plan to use it in my new truck as well. It will be handy to have 2 trucks to be able to hook onto the trailer as I cannot leave a trailer unattached to a truck parked on our street. I've had my SL16 since 1999. I love it because it uses a drawbar and thus its impossible to accidently mis hitch and drop the trailer. My old truck (F250, 5.9CR, ZF6) is still able to puller the 5er, but its in rough condition right now due to theft damage and thus I until I do some work on it, I only use it occassionally around town. Console Shifter I need a way to conveniently trigger my CAN Bus data logger and sooner or later I need a shift lever to manually control the 6R140 when its in manual shifting mode, so I started working on this. The truth is that I'm a transmission shifting control freak and I dearly miss my ZF6. I plan to program my transmission controller with several operating modes, covering from full auto to full manual. I expect to be in full manual mode when towing in demanding conditions. [ATTACH=full]87119[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]87120[/ATTACH] The plan is to have a 2 positon electronic shifter (forward = up, back = down) built into the console with buttons on the shift knob for various other functions. I originally tried adapting the knob to an arcade joystick controller, but for a number of reasons I abandoned that effort and am now making the shift mechanism from scratch. [ATTACH=full]87121[/ATTACH] I'll post pictures when my scratch built shifter looks like something. I will retain the column shifter for the purpose of shifting the valve body and such. The console shifter will be electronic only, for upshifting and downshifting in various modes. I will be upgrading the column shifter from the 08 shift lever (with a tow haul button only) to the '11 shift lever with tow haul and up/down shift buttons. I am not using the column shifter up/down buttons for shifting the 6R140 because I don't like the positioning and I want to use the up/down buttons on the column shifter to change the exhaust braking and transmission shifting characteristics, like its done in a Volvo truck with their iShift system. While I have the console out of the truck and apart, I'll be mounting Ford 120VAC power outlets in it. I'm mounting an inverter in the truck and I need outlets mounted in the console to distribute the power so passengers can power their various electronic gizmos. CAD Work I'm still drafting up the various parts I need water cut. I'm trying to all the parts I need for everything all at once and I'm having to make a lot of decisions as I go. Its a slow process. The slowest part of it all is that I have to make a mock transmission adapter from wood to double check everything and to make sure that the placement of the starter works for both the engine and the transmission bellhousing. And, in my spare time, I am working on the CAN Bus stuff. I've warned my wife that I need to work continuously on stuff this weekend to get this project back on track. She told me she has lots of independent things planned such that I'll have uninterrupted time. [/QUOTE]
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