Ok, I'll keep posting questions and observations on my L29 truck until y'all tell me to stop cluttering up the thread [emoji16].
When I got the truck the engine was rebuilt with 160K on the odometer. It was rebuilt with stock spec stuff and the PO had receipts out the wazoo. I have full faith and confidence in the work that was done and she runs great (after the Bosch injector and FPR replacement). If anything, she's TOO quiet for a big block. I keep going back and forth on getting long tube headers and a Dyno tune at my local speed shop (a surprisingly GOOD speed shop called "Muffler shop of Columbia") but the fact that it's a daily driver and more of a cruise/Putt-Putt truck than a hotrod has kept me from jumping into that end of the pool. That, and I'm super nervous about having the truck on a Dyno, in the event that something went wrong I'd be extremely sad [emoji28].
I did the first oil change with around 200 miles on the rebuild. Second oil change at about 1000. Super overkill but I'm trying to do things as well as I can to make it last. Oil wasn't too dirty and I dug around the drain bucket with a magnet and nothing stuck to it. Using Rotella T-4 10W-30 and a bottle of TB Zinc plus with every oil change (the zinc is probably overkill but shouldn't hurt it).
I'm trying to push the third oil change to about 4K miles. I checked the level today at 2K miles and noticed I was about a quart low. There's no visible leaks and the only noise she ever makes is a slight tick on cold startup that lasts maybe 3 seconds (which makes logical sense to me, that's how hydraulic lifters work, right?) I'm trying to develop a maintenance routine and it seems like 2K miles is a reasonable spot to check oil and expect to add a quart on a rebuilt but still 23 year old big block.
Other than her being super thirsty (which is annoying when the southeast is in a micro-gas crisis) this truck has been really good to me so far and I'm really enjoying learning about it from all you guys!
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