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    odd smoking

    ewwwww at dexcool that is the first thing that goes away around here. its still fine so im going to assume that intake gasket was doing the thing.
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    odd smoking

    na oil was clean. number 2 piston looked moist so i put a pressure test on it and i go no sort of drip in that hole. so i took the upper off and jammed my borescope in the port. looked like it might be wet. so i did what i never do. i took the lower off wiped down the felpro problem solver...
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    odd smoking

    yeah i got like a little bubble or two then the rad dropped down like a gallon. it should have been long since blead by now
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    97 l31 shocking distributor

    kind of a strange one. i noticed while setting my cam sensor that the base of my distributor has a noticable current flowing through it. (its an aluminum replacement) changed cap rotor sensor plugs and wires. and it doesnt pop you like a wire but you can definitely feel the current
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    odd smoking

    yeah this was my first go to. i get some tiny little bubbles here and there. i will try it again tho now that its had 10 hours of run time it should have any natural air out
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    odd smoking

    iit isnt steam it is smoke. steam dissipates this does not. it only happens when its been off for a while. i let the truck run for 10 solid hours to make sure it wasnt just residual. the sense it makes to test it when it is hot is that when it is hot the coolant system (the thing im trying to...
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    odd smoking

    im going to pump it up tomorrow and see what it does. but i think im going to put this parts shelf to use and just move to stage 2, now to find an 80 to go behind this 7.0
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    odd smoking

    ive borescoped all the holes none of them look wet (done at opp temp so that some pressure should be in the cooling system) i suppose it could be an intake gasket. not sure how i would have messed that up tho dumber things have happened tools should be here tomorrow so maybe taht will help. im...
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    odd smoking

    so i bought a 97 rcsb that didnt run. put a cap and rotor on it and it fired up. 3 days later it turned in to a steam cleaner. so i pulled the heads to find the grand canyon of a crack (or 6) in the heads as expected. now mind you it was blowing steam at this point. so a set of dart vortec...
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    Anybody have transport wheels with a 5/7 drop

    thanks guys not needing spacers makes it a little better lol
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    Anybody have transport wheels with a 5/7 drop

    so to beat a dead post here. when you 6 lug converted it i assume you still have to run a spacer to make up for the difference in offset between gmt400 and 900?
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