Hey guys, my first thread ever! I have a beauty I bought September 2015 from a Texas owner, ec sb, burgundy. Had 210.5 when I handed the check over, 10 min after sale, it stalled. Long story short, cheap no name lift pump crapped and trashed cp3, then without screw driver primed fuel filter head and caused the seals to fail on it. All is fixed and well now $2200 last owner paid 1000 towards repairs, he's a mechanic and felt bad after 10 minuets after sale That it died on me. We both had no idea it was about to crap out on me as he had driven from Texas to Indianapolis to meet me as a halfway point. It had stock exhaust pipe with muffler delete, aem brute force intake, and a superchip micro max tuner running 70-75hp, injectors were done at 150,000, recent brake on front and new tires on rear, also recent paint job of factory color, also came with boost and egt guage (autometer lunar guages) aftermarket radio and front speakers(crap speakers can't handle bass at all) I put my audiobahn 10" subs in a new box, and under the rear seat they went. All in all decent buy for 10.5k. I have since installed new filter for brute force as old one had holes in materiel, sinister diesel 4inch muffler turbo back, mbrp down pipe, profab intake horn, left on superchip 70-75hp tune and soon doing BD full bore left manifold with egt probe. I also purchased Edge CTS 2 Insight, works good, fuel mileage doesn't work right but it shows how uncalibrated my actual guages are, ex. Tach says 350rpm idle, cts shows 600, oil pressure guage motor is junk, at idle warm it's way before the numbers, and temp guage hits 160 while cts shows 110°. I also got tow mirrors for christmas, I also put ppe boost valve on. I am am an enthusiastic driver who enjoys the g's produced from her and the turbo whistle and exhaust notes, lol. But on straight 60+ mph roads it see's cruise control the entire time. City driving is mild unless I see competition some times, hehe. Just wondering if you lb7 owners have any advice or experience on longevity before I have to worry about doing rods or studs maybe in summer of 2016 here. I always since ownership run cetane boost and anitgel in winter, only the first tank driving back from indiana did it not have fuel additive. 1 injector #7 is running at +3.1 others around zero, so tis weekend doing that upper end injector cleaner. Truck now resides in michigan but as of this post in January I'm in MN running -22 windchill vacation with dad. Truck now has 218k Last owner was second owner, bought with 20 something thousand miles. Says the hardest it ever worked was hauling race car trailer 5 miles to track and back once. But how badly the rear rotors were warped I would guess either Texas heat got to them or he enjoyed burnouts. My uncle knows the guy, and uncle referred me to the truck for sale. I have towed Dads 12' enclosed trailer 3 times, 1St fully loaded 667 miles from MN to MI, ran 740-760egt and 5-7 p/boost, 2nd wasn't loaded enough to work hard, and 3rd Empty, recently back to MN running almost 800 egt in headwinds entire time, 7-10psi on straight flat sections. I had also clay barred and waxed front of trailer to make for better air flow, huge difference between washed and waxed from rest of just washed up trailer, was like glass after that. Rest of time it is daily driver, and my only fully operational vehicle as I blew heads on my 01 Seville STS n* with 236k on the clock, Sitting waiting for me to decide what to do with it. lol
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