i like that!!!!!!!!!

 

green must be a popular color haha but seriously i want my truck back

 

check your plenum, steer gear box, track bar, as well...

for better mpg's you can try getting a superchips, inflate tires, mystery marvel oil in gas, check cat and o2 sensors, change to high performance air filter or cold air intake, upgrade spark plugs, change gear oil in diff's, and the MOST EFFECTIVE MPG SAVER... change your driving habits

 

Thanks for the tips.

how do you check the plenum?

I just got through getting all the yellow off the headlights. I have to say it worked better than expected. Pics to follow.

 

Pull the air filter housing off, crack the throttles wide open, and use a flashlight to have a look down there. If you see pooling oil, chances are very good your plenum is blown.

 

ok cool ill do that tonight.

here are the pics of the headlights. Passenger didnt turn out as good but it was the worst one. Im gonna go back over both of them in a couple days.

 

Question. When you guys are speaking of plenum im assuming your talking about the plenum gasket correct? Reason I asked is because I really didnt know what you guys where talking about so I did some research on autozone.com and got to looking through the different parts and I found a plenum gasket for 12 bucks im hoping that the little booger if so im not to worried if mine is bad or not. Cheap fix. what is the resul/\t/damage a bad plenum could have on the motor?

 

Well you can change just the gasket and you should be good for awhile but chances are the leak will come back.There is a plenum modification kit available to make it permanent which is recommended on here.

 

do you have a link or a part number?

 

The trick with the plenum gasket is to get somewhat shorter bolts so they cannot bottom in short drills in the manifold. Do that, and it should be good to go.

Or you can buy an aluminum replacement pan from Hughes or APS for the piece of mind that comes from doing what everyone else does.

The hot ticket for checking the gasket is to find TSB 09-05-00 somewhere on the web and use the test procedure it details. If you don't develop vacuum in the crankcase, you don't have a blown plenum gasket. Another forum member recently tore into his engine only to find that his afternoon was the only thing blown -- and his checkbook was a mite lighter.