New to the forum but not Duramax's

2004LB7

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Hello, long time lurker. signed up many years ago but due to a glitch in the account i couldn't post. all fixed now.

spent some time on diesel bombers but the duramax section is pretty dead and not many seem to know much. often sign up to get answers to a problem and then disappear. been trying to help them as much as i can but it gets old doing all of the leg work all the time. looks like this is where the party is happening. hope i can make better use of my time here

thanks Jason
 

2004LB7

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hey, Mike

just wanted to let you know that the trans you build for me a few years back for my 04 LB7 has never failed me. only time it has ever shifted weird was due to my tuning. was never able to limp it no matter how hard i pushed it. looking forward to doing my LMM when i save enough
 

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some things i have done to my truck

I relocated the fuel filter and added another one in parallel to the stock one for double the life and less resistance to fuel flow.
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in the process i mounted a 1/4 ball valve to the bleed port on the filter housing to make bleeding the air out so much easier. they should be like this from the factory
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For my lockers, I didn't use the switchs from ARB. Instead i repurposed two factory buttons. Found on ebay a button setup that had buttons for some options my truck doesn't come with and used those. Now it looks stock and no one would even notice.
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and my lift with new tires
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this is one you guys, and gals, should like. m18 x 1.5 wheel studs. long enough that the spacer doesn't need to be bolted on separately. install first wheel, slip on spacer, put outside wheel on and torque nuts down. i am also using Disc-Lock
Locking nuts (http://www.disc-lock.com/assets/pdf/...ocking_nut.pdf)
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