Drok
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While I did not complete all of this today I did complete it over the course of a couple days.
Dropped oil pan and replaced oil pressure relief valve.
Pulled timing cover and replaced timing chain with an LS2 chain.
Replaced oil pump with a Mellings 10355 high volume high pressure oil pump.
Removed the intake manifold to gain access to oil pressure sending unit to remove the screen filter for the AFM solenoids and give more clearance when I hoisted the engine up to remove and replace motor mounts.
New intake, valve cover, timing chain cover, oil pan gaskets.
New motor mounts.
New upper and lower radiator hoses and coolant.
New oversized K&N oil filter and Mobil 1 extended performance 15,000 mile oil.
New upper control arms.
New lower ball joints.
New cross drilled and slotted brake rotors and
ceramic pads at all 4 corners.
New Nokian 70,000 mile tires mounted and balanced.
Front end alignment.
I am very pleased with the results of the new oil pump. Before I would see about 40psi oil pressure at idle on a cold start up and about 25psi at idle when it was warmed up. Now I see 60+ at idle on a cold start and just below 60psi
at idle after its up to temperature.
Here is a pic of the front rotors...
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I forgot to take pics of the rear but they look the same only with single piston calipers out back.
I painted the rotors and calipers with high temp gun metal gray paint and the pads with high temp red. Of course the first time you touch the brakes the rotors face gets wiped of paint but the edge and hat remain painted and hopefully wont rust for a long time. I took it out and bedded in the new brake pads and after that she stops really well.
Here is one cool thing that I had never seen before.... These tires are made in Finland and they have a tread depth percentage gauge built into the tread... I thought that was pretty slick.
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Man you were busy l, i dont dare to go that far into working on my truck. The furthest I've gone is the knock sensors on the 05. Haha
Im gonna do about the same when i need brakes but in a different color maybe blue.
Heck yea nokian tires are great we use them in the winter here... best tire ive used for bad weather. And the tread % is a bonus haha.