You cheat cuz you already have a diesel. I did manage to button the tank up today, fuel pressure is up from the 30ish that it was to 48 at idle and mid/high 50s when I crack the gas. The truck it much happier and it fires instantly and doesn't require throttle to keep it running until it stabilizes. Purrs like a kitten now with my old pump from my non flipper dually. Next I went after the dreaded freeze plugs. I went after the "easy" plug first. Dropped the starter, smeared red loctite on the thing, and drove it home. Easier said than done, I had to Kill Bill the damned thing home. Once the plug got past the chamfer in the block it didn't want to move with a 3" stroke of the hammer. I eventually dug my head out of my ass, put an extension onto the socket to get the hammer out of no man's land, and got it where it needed to be. Armed with this, I tackled the "difficult" freeze plug on the driver's side. This one looked to require the motor mount to come out, barf. As I looked more and more, I decided to just yank the knock sensor heat shield and try nailing it in with a 1/2" drive extension. Worked like a damned charm, in out done. So next I started dumping water into the radiator and kinda held my breath. Around the 4 gallon mark, it started leaking. The origin turned out to be the QD in the intake, easy kill. As I dumped more water down its throat, it became clear that the weep hole in the water pump was pissing water at an alarming rate. Another easy kill. As the truck ran, it never seemed to get out of the 120-130 range so I think I may have also wasted the thermostat. Big whoop. Gonna deal with all of that tomorrow and hopefully there is no more damage from that snap freeze with no coolant last year. If so, I can move real quickly on what's left on this thing. No pics cuz I killed my phone. I get to deal with that tomorrow as well.
