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Well since I've been gone so long I'll give you guys an update on what's been going on in my neck of the woods. I graduated with my AAS in diesel technology at the end of the summer semester and got my class A CDL a couple of weeks ago. I have been wrenching on the side through craigslist since nowone wants a "new" tech. I am going to be moving up to WA around mid Jan and will be working in a large shop for my brother. It is a very busy shop that specializes in electrical. I finally did something about my lousy stereo in the D and will be doing quite a bit of preventative maintenance this week (oil, tranny fluid, diff's, clean my K&N, plugs, cap, rotor, maybe wires)
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Nothing specific, I was just referring to my turmoil of getting out here from Washington DC area to Minneapolis and the radiator issues I had. No harm intended and definitely no ill will meant on your voyage. You were mentioning about going over the vehicle with a fine tooth comb before your trip. You are cool and have a safe drive.
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Well I did plugs, wires, cap, rotor, cleaned my TB yesterday. I was going to skip the wires due to $$$ but I found two corroded terminals on my cap when I pulled my wires and didn't want to transfer any of that funk to the new cap. I went with some MSD 8.5's. What a PITA those things turned out to be. They didn't come with straight boots and I had to go to Summit and pick up boots for an extra $20, the damned terminals wouldn't go into the new boots for anything. After I was routing my wires I also noticed another issue. The terminals were too big to latch onto the plugs. I had to take the pliers and a gentle touch to each of the terminas just to get them to grab on snug. One good thing though is that the D has never run better now that it is all done. Next week I'll being doing all of my fluids and be ready for this move to WA.