Tell_Sackett
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Well with 360k on the odometer and leaking a gallon of oil every couple days, plus a fuel leak and small coolant leak, it's finally time to pull the engine and freshen her up. After pricing everything out and not having any plans to get rid of a pre smog truck in California I decided if I'm pulling the engine I might as well go all the way and tear it down for a rebuild.
So far the plan is a factory overhaul kit from Riff Raff, swamps stage 2 cam, swamps stage one valve springs and terminator t500 HPOP. I need to do something with the turbo but haven't decided what yet. Right now I'm going back and forth between rebuilding with a wicked wheel, rebuild with Riff Raff's wheel or just ordering a center section from somewhere. While everything is on the bench I'll also go through the fuel bowl, new lines to the back of the head, (one of the leaks,) and clean up and carefully inspect the wiring harness. Probably drop a south bend clutch in too since it's had diesel and oil leaking on it since I swapped it around 30k miles ago.
Current mods are swamps tow/haul injectors, bellowed up pipes and TS6 chip with swamps tunes, 6673? Filter and 3.5" downpipe to 4" exhaust.
So far the plan is a factory overhaul kit from Riff Raff, swamps stage 2 cam, swamps stage one valve springs and terminator t500 HPOP. I need to do something with the turbo but haven't decided what yet. Right now I'm going back and forth between rebuilding with a wicked wheel, rebuild with Riff Raff's wheel or just ordering a center section from somewhere. While everything is on the bench I'll also go through the fuel bowl, new lines to the back of the head, (one of the leaks,) and clean up and carefully inspect the wiring harness. Probably drop a south bend clutch in too since it's had diesel and oil leaking on it since I swapped it around 30k miles ago.
Current mods are swamps tow/haul injectors, bellowed up pipes and TS6 chip with swamps tunes, 6673? Filter and 3.5" downpipe to 4" exhaust.
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