Feral peasant
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I have a 98 Chevy k2500HD with the 5.7 vortec and 4l80e transmission, the engine has 268k on the odometer its the second engine in this truck first blew with 330k I've been told. It's been severely beat by the previous owner (tons of burnouts and over loading it with weight) I've put about 4.2k in maintenance and buying it, I love this truck and would hate to sell it so I want to give it life. I'm going to Advanced individual Training for the army this summer for 10 weeks so I won't be able to work on it, i was planning on swapping the engine for a 6.0 with the drive train. The reason for this is I want something with a little more power and speed maybe better MPG (currently getting around 8.6) I don't know much about engines or just about anything so figured I'd ask to get opinions on my thoughts if I'm just a stupid teenager. Depending on what I'm doing I'm going to buy a beater so I can get to work and back either a gmt800 or something fuel efficient