Gave her a much deserved wash, cleaned up the engine compartment a little, finally put a air filter housing gasket back on, not sure how long its been running without one, tested out the heater

damn its getting cold I saw 60' on my overhead comp.

 

got a new towing loop for the front, bent the bottom bar on the brush guard back down and installed the new recovery point.

 

Hey Sheriff,

my truck is going to need a CAT soon, do you think you can post a video of your magnaflow? i havent heard how they sound.

 

hallow the cat out man

 

Truck missing two cylinders on the way to school for my math midterm, so.....

New plugs
New wires
New distributor
New rotor

(Might as well get it all at once, already did the front brakes and an oil change last week).

Turns out the plugs in the truck were Platinum e4's, I'd have bought better replacements than I did had I known, but it's running smooth with regular Platinums. Cylinders 6 & 8 were all gummed up with oil from the plenum leak. The rest of the cylinders looked fine. I towed my boat (4-5000 lbs) the other day up and over a pass, I suspect that's when it got really gummed up.

I pleasantly discovered my bumper is almost perfectly situated as a seat to work on the engine...feet in the winchbox, butt on the rail. I can reach almost all the engine from there, have to lay out over the top of the engine a bit to reach the distributor. It made for some amusing conversations in the Autozone parking lot. (Can't work on the truck at my apartment.)

 

the 5.2 and the 5.9 motors have a slightly different tone, but sure. i have a thrush glass pack on mine because the high flow cat with straight pipes popped/snapped over 2000 rpms and sounded like crap.

some apartment complexes really suck. i was visiting a friend in south carolina one time and my power steering fluid was a little low, so i topped it off and right when i was closing the hood i had two of the people from the front office approach me and tell me that i can't work on my car in the parking lot. i said, "i was just adding some fluid" then they pushed the issue that i couldn't do it, and i was like "well, too late now, i already did and i'm done" then i just turned around and walked back in the apartment, leaving them standing there looking pretty confused that i wasn't affected by their attempted bullying.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyIOmTw0o64
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NuTvp7O97Q0

 

I washed mine today..... well, sprayed a couple layers of salt and mud off it anyways, but I used the wax setting, so does that count as waxing it?

 

I really hate Bosch plugs. They work horrible in everything and work good in nothing. NGK is the way to go. They work great in almost everything!
http://www.toyota-4runner.org/mainte...lugs-suck.html

I assembled a list from Rock Auto and Hughes Engines of the things needed for my new plenum gasket and timing chain. $345. A smorgasboard of DIYs is to come in the months ahead! Plus Harland Sharps from John Mercedes.

 

Bosch plugs are better in imports, thats the only thing i run in my BMW, nothing else can keep the 2.5 running smooth enough, some engines will cook sparkplugs quickly. Just so happens bosch works great in mine.

But i run autolite in both rams and durango.