Sooo im pretty near 100% positive that i blew the HG in my 08 6.7L blowing coolant out the over flow, temp guage fluctuating huge under accel.. etc etc. I have already checked the easy's such as rad cap and t-stat.
Now my question is this, for those of you that have replace your stock HG What are you using for a replacement? What are the best studs/bolts to be using without breaking the bank completely. (I am not scared to treat my truck right either) I have heard a lot of good things about ARP's 625's?
When you pull the heads off of these trucks how many people have legitimately needed to have the heads decked? and by how much? what are the specs? I have a week to order all parts and basically have one day to do this without missing out on work and i really cant be doing that. Thats why i was wondering about head warpage numbers, if it is a likely chance its warped then i will get my old 2001 back in service and use it for work for the next few weeks. (and pray the truck holds together)
what all gaskets am i going to need to do this? exhust flanges, intake horn? ccv will be replaced also while im in there. Is there anything that i will need to look out for over and above what has been written in the two HG replacemnet write ups?
It sucks that it happened and i know its happened to lots of other people i just thought i would be safe since i was running my smarty on the lowest setting. And have ever since i owned the truck. Was pushing a 50 kmh head wind doing 110 kmh, stopped and smelled the coolant right away.
Thanks for any help! Kinda nervous for next weekends project and kinda excited to rip into this thing..
P.S why do you have to remove the injectors to do this job? Is it just so you can get at all the studs?
Now my question is this, for those of you that have replace your stock HG What are you using for a replacement? What are the best studs/bolts to be using without breaking the bank completely. (I am not scared to treat my truck right either) I have heard a lot of good things about ARP's 625's?
When you pull the heads off of these trucks how many people have legitimately needed to have the heads decked? and by how much? what are the specs? I have a week to order all parts and basically have one day to do this without missing out on work and i really cant be doing that. Thats why i was wondering about head warpage numbers, if it is a likely chance its warped then i will get my old 2001 back in service and use it for work for the next few weeks. (and pray the truck holds together)
what all gaskets am i going to need to do this? exhust flanges, intake horn? ccv will be replaced also while im in there. Is there anything that i will need to look out for over and above what has been written in the two HG replacemnet write ups?
It sucks that it happened and i know its happened to lots of other people i just thought i would be safe since i was running my smarty on the lowest setting. And have ever since i owned the truck. Was pushing a 50 kmh head wind doing 110 kmh, stopped and smelled the coolant right away.
Thanks for any help! Kinda nervous for next weekends project and kinda excited to rip into this thing..
P.S why do you have to remove the injectors to do this job? Is it just so you can get at all the studs?