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Title: New guy from NC
Post by: J@meson on February 22, 2011, 09:55:48 am

Hello all, I trickled over here from fullsizechevy.com since OOBS is not heavily discussed over there. About 2 months ago I got a heck of a deal on a 1987 V10 for 1000$. I was told it had a blown headgasket and did a run down of the troubleshooting for one and it seemed it didnt have one till I did a compression check. The 4-6cyl had blown out of the headgasket and when stripped down the head and deck was good and the motor was recently gone thru so I chocked it up to the head being torqued incorrectly so I put a new headgasket in and new headbolts and she runs great now. Just need to register it, get a new gauge cluster and replace rear wheel cyl. But for a total of 1320$ including cost of a trailer rental here is my truck.

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Title: Re: New guy from NC
Post by: autorepr on February 22, 2011, 09:59:03 am

Welcome from Dayton OH!

Title: Re: New guy from NC
Post by: deluxe77 on February 22, 2011, 10:28:25 am

Hello from Texas!  Great find!

Title: Re: New guy from NC
Post by: Buddy on February 22, 2011, 12:16:00 pm

wow thats a very nice looking truck.

Title: Re: New guy from NC
Post by: Captkaos on February 22, 2011, 12:32:15 pm

welcome to the site!

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Post by: thirsty on February 22, 2011, 12:36:50 pm

Great deal! Welcome from New Hampshire.

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Post by: beastie_3 on February 22, 2011, 12:42:57 pm

Awesome truck and awesome easy fix!

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Post by: slammed79 on February 22, 2011, 01:24:59 pm

You stole that thing man! Welcome from Arizona

Title: Re: New guy from NC
Post by: zieg85 on February 22, 2011, 03:51:46 pm

Welcome from NW Indiana

Title: Re: New guy from NC
Post by: 1982 Daily Driver on February 22, 2011, 04:04:31 pm

Welcome from South Carolina.

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Post by: topp on February 22, 2011, 05:29:47 pm

Welcome from New Bern, NC

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Post by: Gilby959798 on February 22, 2011, 06:20:50 pm

Nice truck, welcome from OH

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Post by: bake74 on February 22, 2011, 08:33:17 pm

     Welcome from California, very nice for $1000.00.

Title: Re: New guy from NC
Post by: Layne on February 23, 2011, 12:10:53 pm

Hello from Illinois

Title: Re: New guy from NC
Post by: J@meson on February 23, 2011, 03:44:27 pm

Thank you for the welcoming, I hope this site helps me get her back to her former glory as she was taken somewhat care of till the previous owner that I bought it from got her. He bought it in 06 in California and engine was acting up and shipped it to his parents in NC where it sat for 4yrs bc he couldnt find out this headgasket problem, but on the bright side the entire ignition and cooling system is brand new lol. Downside is I have to drop a saddle tank thats full of old gas bc a fuel pump quit along with other things.

Title: Re: New guy from NC
Post by: Grim 82 on February 23, 2011, 04:49:04 pm

Nice truck, and good diagnostics. Welcome from ND.

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Post by: Canadian 4X4 on February 23, 2011, 05:08:07 pm

Welcome!