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Now your talkin' :D :drink: :D :drink: :evilb: :evilb:

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thats just wrong, some one is abusing their powers.....

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:eek:

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sorry addiction, im into chicks... maybe i can set you up with my buddy rob.. he own a few a gay bars, he swings all kinds of ways...... sorry your pal stecz

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now thats jus wrong, you still do have that exhaust leak in your ford dontya?

Of course I owned them, but it was the regular customers like yourself that made it happen. Do you still have your construction worker gear from village people amatuer night?

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I see you figured out the post bastardizing!!

Don't worry Stecz, You got way too much gray hair.....maybe thats why the Buick salesman make you nervous!! :eek: :D

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[QUOTE=Rippem]Congrats!

check the rear diff. should be 1/4 to 3/8 below fill plug. They habitually come through half-full. Use GM's synthetic known as "grape juice". Expensive...$28+ retail a qt., I pay $19 something. Use it, it's proprietary and designed for that Eaton locker. Change it once (about 3 1/2 qts.) after your first big tow. 20 min job. Eaton recommendations. ;)

Change the Allison spin on filter at that time also...$7.50 at an Allison/Mack dealer. 10 min. job. Stealers nab $25 just for that filter only! :eek: Pre-fill it on the bench and you won't have to add.

Change the oil+filter at 1000 miles to get rid of sand cast, flash, and bearing coatings...and perhaps again at 5K, depending on workload. Then go to extended intervals. Don't do synthetic 'till at least 10K.

Also,when you change the tranny filter it's a good time to start putting the right fluid in,Allison transynd,GM phuked every one with their cheap dextron 3,smitty

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i worked for chevy for years and have always been a bowtie guy, but the new gm trucks have the weakest frames ever put under an american pick up. i've run body shops for twenty years and have never replaced as many frames as with the new chevy truck...the whole front section gets demolished in front end collisions. from the curved area behind the front tire forward they cave in and it doesn't take much of a hit to do them in. the previous body style would take a major front end or head on collision to waste a frame a render it unrepairable. i also saw a lot of the new dura maxs in our service dept with injector problems and am not sure that gm has resoleved the injector issue yet. so get the extended warranty as the injectors are around 750.00 ea retail. but they are good looking trucks, i just like the older trucks as i feel the construction and conventional radiator support front ends were a LOT more crash worthy. but do enjoy your new ride. :drink:

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right on brother...

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Uhh......."crumple zone"...so the occupant(s) don't absorb or react (get thrown as hard) to/by the impact, the vehicle does. :rolleyes: It's called occupant safety.
When you see 'em start folding into the passenger compartment let me know!

Nobody I know is buying injectors under 100,000 miles, failure or not, unless they're getting f'ed by a stealer. If they don't know any better...they deserve it! ;)

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Congrats on your first new vehicle and the new truck Craig. You are gonna have a lot of fun with it.

Can I borrow it to tow to Sarasota next month? :D :D

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craig, im sorry you have made such a mistake. anything i can do to help you out, ill be there for you brother. some things in life should be forgiven. this is one of those things. you being my cig brethren, ill be there any time you call.. im mean after all if you want to pull that bad ass rig with your mitsubishi chevy ill be here for you when you need me. what are pals for... stecz

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I did gain alot of knowledge working on motors when I had my one and only Ford ...... cuz I blew it up. :D

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I see you posted this before the race ended yesterday. Hendrick had some great motors yesterday! Not.

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Henrick had the same problem last year,"faulty part" I believe. Im not a Ford fan but if Roush wanted to give me a mustang, Id take it! :eek: :rolleyes: :p

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BTW, Harvick looked good ..... :cool:

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Hey Artic or anyone else. I just want to confirm. Are you saying when I change tranny fluid use the Transynd GM Part No. 12378515 instead of the Dexron III? I see in the manual their saying use Transynd for the manual trans. but still Dexron III for the automatic.

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I think the Duramax/Allison combo combined with a a chip aqnd exhaust is such an awesome setup. It towed my boat with such ease you hardly knew it was back there.

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That's exactly what we're saying. :D

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#1 go to phone book, find Mack dealer.
#2 go see them and buy a 5 gal. pail of TranSyn D. It'll have a proprietary Allison label on it. The best guesses are that it's manufactured by Citgo/Texaco, though you can't buy it from them easily...if at all.
#3 if you're not comfy doing the flush to the TS D yourself, the shop will have the equipment to do it.
#4 WARNING...this is not a cheap project whether you do it yourself or not...but well worth it. :cool:

DO NOT EVEN CONSIDER buying that fluid from GM. There won't be much lube left after they run in into you for the fluid and charge you $25+ for the $7 spin on filter. FIND AN ALLISON DEALER.

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Close, it's made by Castrol for Allison. ;)

Once you do it, you're good for 100,000 miles or so without worrying about it. :D

Allison dealer locater

I'd sell it to you, but the shipping would probably negate anything I could save you on it. :(

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Hey Bill....I was wondering how that chip was doing for ya. Hadn't heard from ya in awhile. Do you have any tires left on it? ;) Those things are probably the best bang for the buck on the market right now.

Buck

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Couldn't remember...I knew I should have verified...seven 12 hour night shifts in eight days left me with that brain cramp. :p

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Transynd was developed specifically for the Allison 1000/2000 transmissions in a joint venture w/Castrol,around 45 $ a gallon at most allison dealers,well worth it!!!
14.97 w/just hypertech,I would have never thought i own a diesel 4dr/4wd that could break into the 14's without putting a wrench to it!!!

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Take years off my life for the love of money and toys...sad isn't it? :p

Medical field. I hit it hard in the winter, and only work 20 or so shifts total in June, July, and August. ;)

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hey I just got mine home last night also!!!!!

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congrats! You made the right choice!

stecz will back me up on this. :p

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I just took mine on a trip pulling the 33 Outlaw this weekend through the hills of Kentucky and Tennesee. We got 12 mpg which I thought was not too bad.

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We had bought a 2004 GMC crew cab dually from Chuck Winegardner. At the time we also kept the '97 F350 crew cab. We recently sold the GMC and last night traded in the '97 F350 on an '04 F350 crew cab dually that we saw at his Chevy dealership. Looked at it this past weekend and it had "Jay's Marine" on the back. Bill picked it up last night in the snow. Hope to get pictures this weekend.

Congrats on your new truck Craig.

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Picked up mine yesterday also. Thanks Craig for putting the idea in my head!!

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Nice! :cool: :D :cool:

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I would love to take a picture of mine to share but I have been driving it through 10" of snow, slush and salt....:(

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Thanks Bill.
Yep Jay got smart and moved up to a Chevy!! :evilb: :evilb:

Just curious (since you've had both), which truck did you like better and why?

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Craig. Glad you went for the Duramax. Looks great! I sure have fun in mine. :cool:

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I've got an '04 and an '02 and love 'em. The '02 is decidedly more fun as it's got all the goodies, both cosmetic and mechanical. Edge Juice/Attitude is the only way to go on these trucks. :D

That generator, as I found out later, scales out around 16,500 lbs. Now I'm feeling pretty good about the Top Gun or Cafe Racer plan as it pulled like it wasn't there. :cool:

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a cool site that I wanted to pass along....


http://forum.thedieselpage.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?

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Craig, since Bill is too busy at work to answer, I will. We like the Ford better. That is not to say that the GMC is not a great truck (cause it is) but it drives more like a car than a truck. The Ford is a truck and drives like one. To tell you the truth, what bothered me the most was a conversation Bill had with someone at the Cambridge races last September. They said, "Your pull what boat with that truck??!! Just make sure the hitch doesn't pull away from the frame."

So, the idea of our 47' beast getting tossed on the road, did sit too well with either of us. Anyway, Bill has always liked the Fords better and the '97 F350 pulled everything he ever needed (including the Fountain...to the ramp). :D

Can't wait for summer....see you on the water.

Patti

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Yea, there's a couple horror stories of the GM hitch itself failing, but not the frame ever that I've heard of on all the truck forums.

That's why I skipped it on the order and put a real hitch on. ;)

You can't trust either one of them to get everything right (see transmission failures and front end vibration problems on the Ford) both much more common than hitch failures on the GM. :D

So, 5 years and 9 months later.... I just hit 100,000 miles this morning on the way to work. That's 100,000 trouble-free miles (see post below). ;) :drink:

Steckz's chitbox ford blew a transmission a few months after this post. He came clean and told me.....but still owes me a steak dinner. :D Still waitin' Pal!!!

Truck lasted longer than,,