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If your vehicle is Flexfuel, run a tank of E85. That stuff is great at cleaning out the combustion chambers


That's the one thing I haven't done to this rig yet. I run 89 because I get a pre det knock on the 87. And towing the boat too. Should I still try the E85 due to this?
 

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Got some kind of squeak noise on the right rear, only when turning left and occasionally when straight for a second after coming out of a left turn, can't find anything visible, brake cleaned the inside and outside of rotor, slapping it back on. Any ideas? I'm at 144k I doubt it's a axle bearing at this mileage everything looks goodPXL_20220408_164118525.jpg
 

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I guess the bright side is that, since it sounds like it needs new rings and a hone (as you've already determined), you could gap the rings for boost.

If your vehicle is Flexfuel, run a tank of E85. That stuff is great at cleaning out the combustion chambers
That's pretty much all I ever run in mine, so I expect when I take it all apart that it should look pretty decent.
 

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Got some kind of squeak noise on the right rear, only when turning left and occasionally when straight for a second after coming out of a left turn, can't find anything visible, brake cleaned the inside and outside of rotor, slapping it back on. Any ideas? I'm at 144k I doubt it's a axle bearing at this mileage everything looks goodView attachment 367503
Well after driving in circles and rotating front & rear windows up & down and then having the wife ride shotgun with her head out the window it is the front right, not rear, pretty typical for these trucks to throw sound, took the front right wheel off and inspected, did a minor tweak to one of the brake pad metal tabs and 90% of the noise is gone, hubs seem ok no play but I can hear a couple light "ticks" when spinning the wheels which is probably normal but I think I will order new hubs and pads anyway.

and got to use the new Ridgid took 3 of the wheels off and back on, didn't even put a dent in the big battery and with it set on "2" it was pretty dam close to 140ft lbs with a few bumps.
 

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Well after driving in circles and rotating front & rear windows up & down and then having the wife ride shotgun with her head out the window it is the front right, not rear, pretty typical for these trucks to throw sound, took the front right wheel off and inspected, did a minor tweak to one of the brake pad metal tabs and 90% of the noise is gone, hubs seem ok no play but I can hear a couple light "ticks" when spinning the wheels which is probably normal but I think I will order new hubs and pads anyway.

and got to use the new Ridgid took 3 of the wheels off and back on, didn't even put a dent in the big battery and with it set on "2" it was pretty dam close to 140ft lbs with a few bumps.
Could those ticks you hear be the cv axle?
 

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Could those ticks you hear be the cv axle?
Not likely, usually the ticks are bearing noise, 2wd's will make the same noise, one axle is fairly new and both sides sound about the same. at the mileage I am at I am getting close to having to do the hubs anyway I found oem hubs from o-reilly for $175 (special order) I will go by there later today and see if they can get them at that price otherwise rockauto has them for 189, if I can get them from o-reilly then I will save the shipping cost and a few bucks, hubs are easy to do anyway, no rust here and I am pretty sure I have the socket for the axle in my tool box already
 

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I'm not sure. I wanna say probably not since GM outlines a soak in their oil consumption TSB. But, GM is also the aśśhole that says burning one quart of oil every 2,000 miles is within spec.

I doubt it'll hurt anything. There's no way the combustion chambers and/or rings hold enough carbon to do any real damage to the cats. I don't know how much it smokes. If you're thinking of Seafoam, the good/right stuff to perform the soak contains a lot more active ingredients that burn off in the dissolved carbon. The majority of Seafoam is pale oil, so that's mostly what's smoking when burning. It's not "all the carbon" in your engine. A brand new, carbonless engine will smoke like crazy when Seafoamed.
Freeing up the oil control ring and swapping my valve cover basically stopped my oil consumption. It was consuming a quart about 2500 miles too. It had also started smoking at start up after long drives on the interstate. I just sucked some water through the intake while revving it slightly. I took a water bottle and poked a small hole in the lid so it would spray a fine mist/stream in the intake while I had someone rev it. I did that around 150k miles.
 

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