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What's the plan? I thought of you today and wondered what's going on with your truck. Could always get an aluminum 6.2 instead of the iron one. Whole lotta zoom zoom if you're willing to deal with the electronic junk.

My apologies. I forgot the drop pitman arm, lift shocks, and crossover steering. Also, the big tires will break the frame, so that'll need to be reinforced. Might as well box the whole thing. There's a kit for that. Braking performance will be downright dangerous, so those really ought to be...

Just gotta understand the money pit gets deep and wide when things are changed. Lift springs effectively shorten the propeller shafts and brake hose length, increase the pinion angles. Common consensus seems to be that you can get away with it up to 4". 33s fit with stock springs and tires...

Can confirm. Threw the belts on a Hydroboost C10 with a load of blocks in the bed and it took a 7 point turn to get into my driveway.

If this is the truck with the giant springs, then it comes with the territory. The owner can have the shaft lengthened or risk it falling out. This is their issue, not yours.

Still more trouble. Small wonder I couldn't figure what the problem was when there was so much going on. Front left hub and bearing wallered. Never made any noise under load and spun fine in the air somehow, but I noticed the wheel was sitting with positive camber at rest. Hub was too hot to...

This was gnawing at the back of my mind for many weeks after I reused the original u-bolts with the new 1900 pound leaf springs. I definitely over torqued them, but never managed to get complete thread engagement. The extra leaf was just too thick for comfort. I ordered these from Summit...

I give Thrush welded mufflers the thumbs up. Only slightly louder than stock. Nice rumble with heavy throttle. No drone. Appreciably more power to the wheels. Obviously uncorked the exhaust. Can't speak to longevity yet. My butt dyno is impressed and my neighbors won't complain anymore than usual.

The OE lug holes were wallered out enough that the wheel was twisting on the hub. I'm just glad it made a bunch of noise instead of quietly snapping the new studs off one by one. Got a rally sport on there with a brand new tire for now. It'll be the spare later. I'm giving the replacement...

I don't know anything about blue head gaskets. There is another part number for this truck from FEL-PRO that's a hundredth over-thickness for if you've had your heads milled. That P/N is FEL-PRO 9128PT

Penetrant florescent dye and a pair of yellow shades is how we did this kind of inspection in aviation (looking for cracks).

FEL-PRO MS91585 FEL-PRO 8726PT

That whole ordeal turned out to be not much of a problem at all. I've always dreaded working on drum brakes because they're basically Rube Goldberg machines that account for half the springs in a vehicle and like to throw pieces across the yard during assembly, never to be seen again. All the...

Great news! Today I learned why I couldn't find anything wrong with the front end when the back wheel fell off! I always heard stories about wheels falling off, but I had never seen it happen in my life until today. Somebody must've loosened the lugs for me when I wasn't looking. On the bright...

Do you take out the intake filter studs? Seems like they'd skewer you.

Can stick a bore scope in the plug holes to see if you've got a steam cleaned piston before taking it apart. Fluorescent penetrant dye could be helpful.

The easiest thing to do would be to remove the intake manifold. I mean I'm sure you could do some endoscopic surgery on your fuel line, but if you managed to succeed, it would probably take ten times as long. Most likely you'd get it apart and not be able to get it back together without removing...

You can put a little oil down #4 and if the compression jumps up, then you know it's not a valve.

I suspected the u-bolts at first. I reused the originals and have checked the torque on them several times and they haven't loosened up. Maybe I'll go to replace them now and find the center pin broken off. I understand that can happen. The hubs are unlocked, so I didn't expect the outer...