Thought about this today after realizing I'm tall enough touch the ground from the driver's seat...
http://www.suspensionconnection.com/...on/359104.html

 

As mentioned earlier in the thread, I just bought mine. The former owner was an older guy in bad health and his son said he hadn't driven it more than a few hundred miles in the last couple of years. So it just sat in the garage.
Today I was doing some of that baseline maintenance you do on a new purchase and.........

Looks OK so far....


But it looks like he was telling the truth about the truck sitting alot lately....

 

You'd better do the plenum, if there is a rat's nest in there you can bet he's never done the repair.

 

Got started on the rear main seal/timing chain/water pump replacement. It got cold shortly after dark so I quit. I really need to start projects in the morning instead of an hour before dark.

 

I was thinking of doing my T-chain with the motor in the truck, is this how you're doing it, and if so, would it be worth pulling the motor?

 

Yep and nope to the questions. There is plenty of room in there after you take the fan shroud out.

 

Yeah plenty of room after taking the fan out. Enough to get an air gun in there and all . Just don't snap bolts like I did =p

 

I've been reading about the plenum/gasket issue. But I have none of the symptoms....yet. I don't know, fixing something that isn't broken? The TB looked absolutely clean and the truck starts and runs great. What are the negative consequences?

 

Played on the rocks and hit some mud, not intentionally. Beautiful day in the bluegrass state.

 

well today my truck just looked pretty while me and my dad worked on his boat... checked my plenum and it wasnt blown the next door neighbor was the previous owner so i asked him and he said he had replaced it before he traded it in and it was the hughes kit (ignore my finger in the pic >.<)