head gasket woes
11-07-2005, 02:59 PM
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i wish, i bought the duramax a couple of months ago and it is keeping me in the poor house till i get it put together and sell one of the dodges.
11-07-2005, 05:01 PM
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Originally Posted by rjohnson
I've only been around Diesel web pages for 3 yrs and I can remember when 400 hp was VERY impressive!
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OF course, dd3 injectors (100hp) were considered very aggressive.
Now, you can get 400hp without tapping the wire, and 150-hp sticks are commuter injectors!!\
Heck, I remember the "OMG twins rock" thread that Mark Kendrick posted when they first started messing with twin turbos. NOW look where we've come!
Used to be 400hp was a smokey pig that couldn't tow. Now you can build a 550hp commuter that can tow almost anything.
Isn't life grand?
11-15-2005, 07:45 PM
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Originally Posted by Jambbii
I picked up my marine gasket from cummins and it was cheaper than piers or anywhere else I looked. Have fun changing the gasket, my truck was too big to get a chear picker up there to lift the head off. What good times 
11-15-2005, 08:58 PM
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Originally Posted by Jambbii
I picked up my marine gasket from cummins and it was cheaper than piers or anywhere else I looked. Have fun changing the gasket, my truck was too big to get a chear picker up there to lift the head off. What good times
Next time, take the front wheels off and set the axle down on some wooden blocks. it makes it much easier.
I have to do that on my 4x4, as the top of the grill is at my eye level. Take the tires off, and set the lower balljoints on some 4x4's (actually, I use some old lift blocks, because my zerk fittings fit in the holes nicely), and the cherry picker works fine.
just have to remember the angle when installing and removing.
11-15-2005, 10:47 PM
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i will post the marine gasket #s tomorrow, i have the cpl and part#s[it was 93 bucks from my cummins house]. i used a forklift to get the head off, it is a lot easier than lifting that heavy pig. but i did find that i was about to drop some valves, the keepers were being pulled through the retainers. i guess it was lucky that the gasket poped and i pulled the head before i dropped a valve. jet pilot hooked me up with a set of studs and jr adkins has a set of titainum retainers on the way.
11-16-2005, 12:30 AM
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jeeezzzz..... you poor boy, try running 32 for timing 
and see what the HG looks like ..... 
looks like my neighbors dog had been chewing on it
BUT... we won't do that again
ps ....did i tell you ...i really like my piers stupid pump...
and see what the HG looks like ..... looks like my neighbors dog had been chewing on it BUT... we won't do that again
ps ....did i tell you ...i really like my piers stupid pump...
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