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It didn't damage anything. Valve cover gasket had a cut in it, dripped oil onto the exhaust manifold and caught fire. We noticed it smoking really bad from under the hood, so I stopped, opened the hood, and glanced over at a small fire on the exhaust manifold. By the time I grabbed something to put it out, it had already extinguished itself, not even leaving any evidence that it was even there.

Ah, c'mon now....after the nerves calmed down and all, you didn't make fun of the fact that we had run around the truck like a couple of clown fireman jumping out of a Volkswagon Beetle! My heart skipped a beat on that one...no major fire thank god.



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Ah, c'mon now....after the nerves calmed down and all, you didn't make fun of the fact that we had run around the truck like a couple of clown fireman jumping out of a Volkswagon Beetle! My heart skipped a beat on that one...no major fire thank god.



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Haha, yea, BOSS and I ran around the truck a couple times just like some damn clowns. He had a towel in his hand and was standing on one side of the truck, so I ran around to grab the towel to pat out the fire, but I guess he ran around the truck at the same time and we ended up just circling the damn truck looking for each other.

When I started this thread, I was expecting it to be only a couple pages long with a few pics of the swap and maybe a video or two at the end. This was suppossed to be a very simple, one weekend swap that's turning into a two month long project so far. I can't wait to get the bugs figured out and roast some 24s:rocking:
 
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thats pretty sweet. yea i was on my phone when i posted that and i worded it wrong so sorry if you took it as me being a dick.

glad to hear nothing got damaged.

No worries man, I didn't take it that way or even thought twice about it:Handshake:
 

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its like i dont come check this post in 2 days and everything gose crazy. glad it was nothing rly bad. i have to checks this every day now. i hit last page and all i c is ooo it was just a small fire. im like wtf??????
 

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Haha, yea, BOSS and I ran around the truck a couple times just like some damn clowns. He had a towel in his hand and was standing on one side of the truck, so I ran around to grab the towel to pat out the fire, but I guess he ran around the truck at the same time and we ended up just circling the damn truck looking for each other.

When I started this thread, I was expecting it to be only a couple pages long with a few pics of the swap and maybe a video or two at the end. This was suppossed to be a very simple, one weekend swap that's turning into a two month long project so far. I can't wait to get the bugs figured out and roast some 24s:rocking:

haha I know how you feel man..my 2 day swap turned into 3 days, 60 hours..and im still workin on the little things..i wish i woulda cammed mine while i was at it because at this point, i dont wanna mess with it again lol..

glad to see your gettin close though
 

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When I started this thread, I was expecting it to be only a couple pages long with a few pics of the swap and maybe a video or two at the end. This was suppossed to be a very simple, one weekend swap that's turning into a two month long project so far.

This makes for great reading material bro!! Glad you got her calmed. Get the lil bugs worked out and roast those babies!!! (24's)
 
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Found a nice big vacuum leak at the egr valve tube going into the s/c. I went ahead and just removed the entire egr crap. I'll just have to deal with the CEL until Justin gets a chance to tune out the egr for me sometime later. Hopefully this will take care of my p0300 misfire code. I still don't think this is what's causing bank two to run lean. I haven't driven it around yet to even see if it took care of my random misfire dtc. I'll find out tomorrow.

Oh yea, btw. I further disassembled the old 5.3 and found 3 melted pistons (pistons 2, 4, and 7), a crack in the number 7 cylinder wall, and a blown head gasket. Found some of the missing pistons melted to the heads. Apparently, my lean issue started with the 5.3 from what it looks like.
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