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[85f350cc4x4]

Hi, my name is Dave. I recently acquired a 1985 F350 Crew Cab 4x4 Dually Centurion.  I'm going to be restoring it and hopefully I can get some advice along the way.  Here is a picture of the truck.  

[Gary Lewis]

Welcome!  Glad you joined.

Nice looking truck, but before we get to that I’ll ask if you’ve read the guidelines. We have them posted in the New Members Start Here folder, which is why we ask people to post their intro there. But if you have read them we are good.

[Littlebeefy]

That is a really badass looking Centurian. Hadn't seen a dually before. Good luck and have fun.

[Ray Cecil]

Holy Smokes. I love that truck already!! What color interior?

[85f350cc4x4]

The trucksinteriorisred .     it has grey seats from an aftermarket company.    .  I don't think they came from centurion.

[85f350cc4x4]

 

[85f350cc4x4]

The truck has a ATS Turbo as well. The truck does have a smoking issue. It smokes at idle ( warm or cold) . On the highway it clears up. Cold starts with no problem, short crank and it fires up. I haven't had much time to look into it yet.

[Ray Cecil]

Very cool.....if you ever get bored with this project hit me up! I've always wanted a crew cab dually....

Love the red. If it were my truck, I'd make the seats red too, and paint the outside that two tone red...its like a deep red and a fire engine red combo. But that's just me.

If I can't have a truck with blue, it needs to be red.

[Ray Cecil]

Darn you Dave....you got me looking online for Centurion Crew Cabs.....

must....PUT....DOWN....the MOUSE......wife will.....leave me......if I buy....another truck....

[Littlebeefy]

The outside color combo of that truck is amazing, in my opinion. I wouldn't change it at all.

[85f350cc4x4]

My plans are to keep it as original as possible. I'm going to try and find red seats with a center console for it. I would love to have a centurion wooden center console but that will be hard to find.

[Ford F834]

Fantastic truck! I have seen only a few with that two-tone pin stripe pattern with the little downward pointing tip at the front of the fender. I like it. Seems like it was only 85/86’s that had it.
 
The interior shots of your truck are interesting. My 86 crew cab has oak door panel inserts and oak headliner trim above the doors that looks almost identical. I always assumed it was home-made, but perhaps it was a mass produced aftermarket option from Centurion? My truck was not Centurion modified that I know of.
 
Your turbo kit is an ATS 085 model. It is a non-wastegated type with a really high area ratio exhaust housing (A/R 1.1 or so if I remember right). It takes a good bit of rpm’s to get it to spool up. If the previous owner turned up the fuel on the injection pump it would cause some smoke until the turbo kicks in to clean it up and is the trade off for more power once it does hit spooling rpm. If it is black/grey haze you might want to back off a little on the fuel. If you are seeing white/grey foul smelling smoke then you probably have one or more injectors that are dripping, streaming instead of atomizing fuel, or have a weak spring and a pop pressure lower than the others. The pre-cup design is incredibly forgiving, but even that has limits.
 
Welcome to the group. As admin assistant I have to ask again if you saw Gary’s post asking to acknowledge the forum guidelines? Thank you for sharing your project with us.

[85f350cc4x4]

Thanks for all the information.  It's not easy to find information on this truck. The only time I heard the turbo and felt a little gain in hp was on the highway. The truck has 410 diff gears so at 100km per hour  it was reving pretty high.  I would like to try and find a aftermarket overdrive for it eventually.

I do believe my smoke is coming from a bad injector. There is a slight miss sometimes and injector knock on one cylinder.

 When I was purchasing the truck the seller was unsure if it was a centurion, so I asked him to send a picture of the stickers on the inside of the door.



And there it was . I was very excited after that picture.

I do acknowledge the forums guidelines and agree with them.

[grumpin]

Welcome!

[Ray Cecil]

I have the same drivetrain, minus the turbo. 7.3 IDI, C6, 4.10 gears. I got around the high rpms by installing a gearvendors OD unit. Now I can haul with 6 gears. I highly recommend it.

[Gsmblue]

A fellow Centurion owner!!

https://forum.garysgaragemahal.com/Elyza-Dual-little-1985-F350-DRW-tp98902.html

[85f350cc4x4]

I read the whole thread Eylza Dual-little is a very nice truck. I would love to get alcoa rims for my truck but I thought they would not fit. The bolts seem to be at there maximum width. I have only 2 or 3 threads left.  

Do the alcoa rims fit all dual rear wheel bull nose trucks