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If you can afford to recore the original do it. I had a tube fail on my original. I replaced it with the Spectra brass unit. It literally weighed half of the original. It lasted about 2 years in a daily driver. The level sensor never worked very well and it didn't fit the truck well. I replaced...

Got any parts for Dana 60 hubs? I need one selector and believe I need those thin washers inside. I had a king pin pull its threads which allowed the wheel to lean in and out which pulled on the axle shaft and bent up those washers. The hub still works, it just isn't right.

There is one on eBay right now for $60. https://www.ebay.com/itm/266083420850?chn=ps&mkevt=1&mkcid=28

The D in the VIN does indeed mean diesel. It's there to dictate the emissions schedule the vehicle must comply with.

I think these heads are expected to crack. They're relieved between the valves so they crack in that region where it doesn't do any harm. I see this on large turbochargers. It's called stress relief cracking. I really like the idea of MLS gaskets. Quadstar Tubing claims to have a new version...

Grounding is intended to provide a low impedance path for fault current to cause a magnetic trip of a circuit breaker. That means your ground bus bar, wherever it is needs to connect to the neutral. At ONE point only. That is all. Grounding is that one point where the ground bus bar and...

If you have problem bolts that are prone to breaking add a spacer under the head of the bolt and use a longer bolt. Guaranteed to solve your problem.

Helicoil kits used to be $25 but gained on Timesert considerably recently. However, I prefer Helicoil due to the variety of alloys available (not from your local hardware store). They have Nitronic 60 inserts that prevent galling when working with stainless steel fasteners and they have PTFE...

I'm a Helicoil fan. I think Timesert uses their high price as an advertising point... However, in this special case where the threads need to seal I would suggest the Timesert with sealant. My favorite general purpose sealant is Loctite 577 but that may not be accessible to everyone. Don't use...

As a kid in the 90's I remember the diesel truck owners idling their truck at the fuel pump. I asked my parents why they thought they were special.

Maybe diesel owners like to feel special and NAPA is capitulating?

I did drive my M1008 20 hours in one shot. I kept it as close to 65 mph as I could. Stopped for fuel and to load a dirt bike.

They were Dodges. They rusted back into their natural form.

That head had 3 cracks pinned between the valves. That's likely what you see. I got the driver side head off today. It was clearly the leaker. I used a Cometic MLS gasket because the two 6.2/6.5 engines I have opened all had damaged top decks from vibrating fire rings. Anyways, I seems like the...

There also was no D model Chevy. It's a K5 or K30.

Long story, I bought a 2001 C3500 6.5 engine off eBay. It was supposed to be a runner but I decided to reseal it regardless. Good news is that a teardown revealed it to be a 2004 GEP engine. Bad news the block has 0.010 of wear from the head gaskets. I had the heads gone through and the block...

Make sure you get a tube support if you're going to use a compression union on plastic tubing.

I used spade terminals with heat shrink in the past. The spade terminals loosened and the heat shrink continued to shrink from the heat until all of the terminals were exposed. That is why I strongly recommend the Packard or Aptiv terminals.

--Chesterton's Fence

Anything that causes a seal to swell is damaging it. Your local auto parts store has seal kits for GM power steering pumps. It costs all of $10 to rebuild one. Sometimes they leak when the reservoir gets bent trying to tension a belt. In this case a kit won't do you so well.