head gaskets went, time to upgrade

zf>allison

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Ok the low coolant light is coming on in the single cab. Wet fenderwell and black jug:(. So i guess I'm gonna do gaskets and put my studs in this thing, do my 45% nozzles while I'm at it and hopefully get the trans done at the same time, not having 4th and 5th (fun highway gears) sucks lol. Will be doing valve springs on this one to try to keep it together this time, but anything can happen on a stock engine. Then hopefully get some sweet danville tunes and even though it won't be built or 1000 horse power, I'm gonna fully strip the truck. I'll get a slight edge over other stock engine power range trucks. Racing is all I do with it. Street or strip it's always getting romped on I won't miss any of the creature comforts. After I can save up a few more bucks I'm gonna get the 75 rebuilt and slap it on top and see what happends hopefully the light weight will help it out on this one. Just kind of laying out my plan on here so I have something I have to stick to. Might try a remote mount single this time but that's after I get this thing sealed back up. Sucks it happend so soon but it's an lly I expected it sooner than later. Probably gonna end up with a stripped 12 second truck lol
 
zf>allison

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Huffy67 said:
You done tore up my buddy's truck


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Yep lol but thats how u learn. And i always say "if it ain't broke, the wife won't let me fix it". Everytime it brakes I can upgrade it lmao. I already dropped the overload and 2 leaves cut out the spare crossmember and the bed hitch, and the rear hitch that was a huge piece of half inch plate lol bet I lost over 100 pounds with the leaves included.
 
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Yeah, if you start now you can prob still drive it to work tomorrow lmao


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zf>allison

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Every person that sees it asks if it's even a 4x4 and they think it's a half ton on top of that. Guy at gateway asked if it was a turbo gasser
 
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Sucks that it popped. How many miles and boost were you pouring on that thing anyway? I'm knocking on wood as I type this but I am surprised mine is holding strong. Since the zf swap not a day goes by I don't hammer on it more than a few times.
 
zf>allison

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Boost normally was 32 max, hit 40 if I powershift. I bet I've put like 2000 miles on it maybe lmao been on a lift more hours than its been driven, with all the supporting mods I did lol
 
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Me and Corbin took that thing on a 12 hour round trip a few weeks before you got ahold of it. Had no issues of any kind.


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Just goes to show though that you never know when they're gonna go down.


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zf>allison

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Huffy67 said:
Just goes to show though that you never know when they're gonna go down.


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Well corbin was nice to it on a 100 horse tune I was a dick on a max effort tune lol only hit 22000 psi rail at most could have had more tune actually
 
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Lmao, I think we all have problems here. Like me for instance, when mine needed head gaskets I spent almost 10k on it


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Glad I made it into the conversation

Jesse let me know when you need parts/ tuning. I might know a guy that can hook you up.

Honesty truck had stock gaskets, I pulled up the entire service history from the dealer and the co op I got it from. 2 injectors and 3 clutches was all it ever had done to it.

Had 195k on it when I sold it. 185k bone stock last 10k had a tune. Then I sold it to Jesse and it's been through a tough 2000 miles lol.


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zf>allison

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clrussell said:
Glad I made it into the conversation

Jesse let me know when you need parts/ tuning. I might know a guy that can hook you up.

Honesty truck had stock gaskets, I pulled up the entire service history from the dealer and the co op I got it from. 2 injectors and 3 clutches was all it ever had done to it.

Had 195k on it when I sold it. 185k bone stock last 10k had a tune. Then I sold it to Jesse and it's been through a tough 2000 miles lol.


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Yep I think it has 197000 on it lol so it didn't take long. My crew that u have now I didn't pull any history but it was completely stock when I got it. But i put 30,000 miles on it in like 2 or three years. That's what happends when u can't afford to fix it lol
 
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