I just wanted to say thank you for letting me join and I'm so grateful for this site. It has really helped me put my 75 GMC 3/4ton 4x4 K2500 back together. I bought it back in Jan 2011 and it had some bad lifters and had little to no maintenance done to the whole truck. apparently a young high school kid tried to really hot rod the truck and after it didnt go how he wanted; he simply let it go in the maintenance department.
I'm learning to be a mechanic and trying to do as much as i can by myself or with the help of friends. I work in a factory not making as much as I'd like to be comfortable so I'm fixing things that I obviously can't afford to have fixed...which is just about everything.
Well my first endeavor about 3 months ago was to pull out the old motor and put in another used one that I heard run... It sounded ok and figured that it would be simple enough to swap them out...Well it would have if the person I bought it from didnt leave the hood and air cleaner off the truck and motor for the few weeks we had some pretty good rain. Then I got it home and pulled the spark plugs and water just started to pour out...I freaked out pretty bad.
So I got to learn how to tear apart a motor and change everything out, gaskets, lifters, pushrods, etc... the works. I left the crank and cam alone. I looked at them and they didnt seem to have and rust or damage to them. I cleaned out all the rust and had the heads cleaned up for me. I got the motor in the truck and then fired it up around 2 weeks ago. I tried to get a safety inspection and it FAILED! Major let down. I needed to change the ball joints and fix the steering gearbox leak.
I just got everything fixed today! It runs, its registered, and I'm happy.
I'm sorry for writing so much but I think a lot of you know the feelings I'm having. I'm sure there will be so much more that I will have to fix, repair, or replace. But I'm not too worry about it yet. I'm just going to do what I can to maintain the fixes that I've already done and keep reading this forum to find the fixes for things that I can't figure out.
Thanks again!
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