Christian ojeda
Newbie
Just wanted to give an update, I ended up having the trans rebuilt due to time constraints and while that was being taken care of I decided to finally Crack the heads off the motor and fix what I thought to be a bad head gasket after cooking the motor to the point that the stock exhaust manifolds were glowing orange 5 years ago. Turned out to be a cracked head, I was gonna leave it at just taking the one side off once again due to time constraints but when I pulled the one side off and found the crack I knew the other side was the same, ended up going to the junkyard and found my exact truck just a single cab (even had the teal and silver) pulled the heads to find they looked brand new and they still had the warranty tags on the back of them. So for a recap of total days actually working on it, I had all of it done in 4 days. Pretty happy with myself, been driving it since February 13th even went and had it on the limiter out in the mud for periods of time and it's still running like a champ, I'll be taking it easy from now on though do to the low oil pressure under load from when it overheated all those years back. Thanks for all the help and feedback.