What did you do with your truck/shop today

[SnakeEyeSS]

Splash screen and color match backlighting

 

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[white1500]

I finished the passenger side valve cover gasket today, a week or so after I did the other side. This side was a huge PITA due to less space towards the back due to the firewall, heater hoses, and dipsticks. It was generally a shitty job due to that, everything just takes longer than it should.

 

And I ended up ripping the pcv hose that runs from the valve cover to the throttle body so I had to stop everything and source one, then go pick it up. Luckily simple 3/8 fuel/pcv hose from O'Riley's did the trick.

 

The old hose was melted was melted onto the metal tip from the valve cover, very strange.

 

Next up is an oil change, hopefully by the middle of this upcoming week.

[white1500]

Mileage is at 232,700 as of this afternoon.

 

Passenger side

The drivers side was very clean on the inside compared to the other.

 

Drivers side

 

 

 

 

Screenshot from video showing which tools are needed

Edited July 27, 2015 by white1500

[SnakeEyeSS]

Mileage is at 232,700 as of this afternoon.

 

Passenger side

The drivers side was very clean on the inside compared to the other.

 

Drivers side

 

 

 

 

Screenshot from video showing which tools are needed

What oil do you use? Does your dipstick have a brown tint too? Mine did when I bought it, three rounds of Pennzoil platinum cleaned it off.

 

You could see the valve spring of my cars from the oil fill spot, they looked new on both cars when I sold them, after buying new, 7 years later using penzoil platinum for most of them.

[white1500]

What oil do you use? Does your dipstick have a brown tint too? Mine did when I bought it, three rounds of Pennzoil platinum cleaned it off.

 

You could see the valve spring of my cars from the oil fill spot, they looked new on both cars when I sold them, after buying new, 7 years later using penzoil platinum for most of them.

I've been using Castrol GTX 10w30 and 5w30 for the past 2 years but prior to that it was mainly Valvoline.

 

These images are with the oil about to hit the 5k mile mark. And the dipstick is clean, it doesn't have any sort of tint or residue.

 

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[SnakeEyeSS]

I've been using Castrol GTX 10w30 and 5w30 for the past 2 years but prior to that it was mainly Valvoline.

 

These images are with the oil about to hit the 5k mile mark. And the dipstick is clean, it doesn't have any sort of tint or residue.

 

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A car I bought used ran conventional for after the 6 digit mark. I ran some synthetic for 2k miles and what came out looked like coffee. Might think about trying a round, I'd bet you'll be amazed how dirty that oil would be. Edited July 27, 2015 by SnakeEyes

[SarahsGMC]

That's how they blend now. They say it's for a perfect match, but I had a body guy tell me it's unecessary if a painter is worth his salt. That guy just sprayed about a foot around the damage on my car at the time and the paint match was perfect. Charged about a third to half of what the other shops wanted because of it. Said he was almost fired from a shop because the manager was getting upset over him not blending further out. Asked the manager to point out where He painted a car and the manager guessed the wrong spot, manager looked like a fool and then got really mad.

 

 

He said so many painter's just aren't good enough it's standard practice to paint several feet all around the damage. I'm sure $$$ has a lot to do with it also.

Kinda what I was thinking good to know that fender was scratched all to hell from working under the hood just means I have one less fender to replace

 

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[Chevor]

No new campers to pull today...nor Friday, or Thursday...never gonna make it to a million.

[LongrangeLauber]

No new campers to pull today...nor Friday, or Thursday...never gonna make it to a million.

Original drivetrain?

[Chevor]

Have had some bearings and seals replaced but engine and Trans is original.

 

IMO GM diesel is designed to go a million if you don't put extra power to it.

Edited July 27, 2015 by Chevor

[LongrangeLauber]

Have had some bearings and seals replaced but engine and Trans is original.

 

IMO GM diesel is designed to go a million if you don't put extra power to it.

Rear end all original or carrier and pinion bearings and seals replaced?

[Chevor]

Rearend has had work down. And extra work at that do to GM tech over tightening and forgetting to tighten parts. Shop fixed a lot of that work free of charge. That guy doesn't touch this truck!

[Singer-Man]

I Put a set of Bilstein 4600s on the front; I did the rears earlier. They feel nice.

Edited July 27, 2015 by Singer-Man

[Jsdirt]

My brother's 2500HD barely crossed 200k. Now the body is rotting out, frame braces in the rear have rotted in half, hitch and spare fell off, doors leak like sieves, and now it sits dead due to an electronics failure - some magic box that controls the injectors. Not to mention the 5 window regulators it's been through, the fire that nearly totaled it 4 years ago, and all the other failures that have already been fixed.

 

Million miles my ass!

 

It's the pewter/copper colored one with the tarp over it, waaay in the background ...

 

 

[Chevor]

That doesn't happen if you clean and keep paint on the frame.