Holy shizzle!! Nice work!
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Colby`s First gen Duramax 01 lb7
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Colby lowballed a dude off Kijiji and got this RBP exhaust tip for his truck.
Sounds good!
Colby bought a used Edge CTS monitor we installed the EGT probe for it today.
Got one of those on my dodge. Like it. You can get a cheap back up camera off amazon/eBay and wire it in. Mine comes on with reverse and is perfect for parking tight spots. Worth the $20 investment. Especially compared to the $250 edge wants
Cowboy.....
Truck now has just over 500 thousand kilometres on it. It’s getting a fresh set of 5100s We are thinking to old shocks are the originals to the truck!? 
Colby has been looking for tow mirrors for ever.
Found some for 180.00. Got them on and working saturday.
Found some for 180.00. Got them on and working saturday.
Looks sharp
Thursday afternoon Colby was going to go skiing with his friends...I get a call at 4pm. "MY TRUCK IS ****ED!" He was going on about how the engine dropped a piston or threw a rod out the side of the block or god only knows what!? He said he was driving along all cool and doing the speed limit when out of the blue it started smoking black clouds and knocking really loud. Luckily we had the afternoon off and he was only about 7 miles away from home,so we jumped it our duramax to rescue him. No fluid on the ground so that was good. He starts it for me and holy shit! Shut it down! That`s a loud knock for sure!
We towed it home with a strap. Then did research, figured we have a stuck injector. I sent a video to Russell and he phoned me back right away...we talked about the injector being stuck and holes in the piston! Russ made some calls and found us a 01 lb7 with 230k on it complete for 2400.00 if we needed it. We did some tests and since we just did the head gaskets and head studded it last year we decided to fix what we had.
It was confirmed with our buddy Lornes snap on computer. We shut down all the injectors one by one till we found it...#6 injector on the drivers side was stuck open. We were going to just replace the bad injector, all the balance rates were good on all the injectors including #6 till it stuck. but decided to do all 8. MAW
We gathered parts Friday and started on it that afternoon, pulled two injector cups out of the drivers side with the injectors and damaged them trying to get them off the injector.
My fault for not using heat.
Two more cups came out on the pass side when we pulled the injectors out. But we use a bit of heat and they came off fine. We had to buy two new ones from the steeler in Stettler where we don`t get a discount and payed way too much for them.
Saturday we had all the new injectors back in and Sunday at 3.00 we had it running and cleaned up my garage. We took it to Lacombe for a test drive and a wash. Engine is running nice and all seems to be good. Colby took it to school today.
This is a short video of what it sounded like.
We towed it home with a strap. Then did research, figured we have a stuck injector. I sent a video to Russell and he phoned me back right away...we talked about the injector being stuck and holes in the piston! Russ made some calls and found us a 01 lb7 with 230k on it complete for 2400.00 if we needed it. We did some tests and since we just did the head gaskets and head studded it last year we decided to fix what we had.
It was confirmed with our buddy Lornes snap on computer. We shut down all the injectors one by one till we found it...#6 injector on the drivers side was stuck open. We were going to just replace the bad injector, all the balance rates were good on all the injectors including #6 till it stuck. but decided to do all 8. MAW
We gathered parts Friday and started on it that afternoon, pulled two injector cups out of the drivers side with the injectors and damaged them trying to get them off the injector.
My fault for not using heat.Two more cups came out on the pass side when we pulled the injectors out. But we use a bit of heat and they came off fine. We had to buy two new ones from the steeler in Stettler where we don`t get a discount and payed way too much for them.
Saturday we had all the new injectors back in and Sunday at 3.00 we had it running and cleaned up my garage. We took it to Lacombe for a test drive and a wash. Engine is running nice and all seems to be good. Colby took it to school today.
This is a short video of what it sounded like.
My first thought was injector too as those are known for them. Glad you got it fixed. Would’ve been a good time for some 100% over units and new turbo
Thursday afternoon Colby was going to go skiing with his friends...I get a call at 4pm. "MY TRUCK IS ****ED!" He was going on about how the engine dropped a piston or threw a rod out the side of the block or god only knows what!? He said he was driving along all cool and doing the speed limit when out of the blue it started smoking black clouds and knocking really loud. Luckily we had the afternoon off and he was only about 7 miles away from home,so we jumped it our duramax to rescue him. No fluid on the ground so that was good. He starts it for me and holy shit! Shut it down! That`s a loud knock for sure!
We towed it home with a strap. Then did research, figured we have a stuck injector. I sent a video to Russell and he phoned me back right away...we talked about the injector being stuck and holes in the piston! Russ made some calls and found us a 01 lb7 with 230k on it complete for 2400.00 if we needed it. We did some tests and since we just did the head gaskets and head studded it last year we decided to fix what we had.
It was confirmed with our buddy Lornes snap on computer. We shut down all the injectors one by one till we found it...#6 injector on the drivers side was stuck open. We were going to just replace the bad injector, all the balance rates were good on all the injectors including #6 till it stuck. but decided to do all 8. MAW
We gathered parts Friday and started on it that afternoon, pulled two injector cups out of the drivers side with the injectors and damaged them trying to get them off the injector.
Two more cups came out on the pass side when we pulled the injectors out. But we use a bit of heat and they came off fine. We had to buy two new ones from the steeler in Stettler where we don`t get a discount and payed way too much for them.
Saturday we had all the new injectors back in and Sunday at 3.00 we had it running and cleaned up my garage. We took it to Lacombe for a test drive and a wash. Engine is running nice and all seems to be good. Colby took it to school today.
This is a short video of what it sounded like.
rolling coal!!!
Sounds like a 12v 
Sounds like a 12v
Haha! Kate’s got a 24 valve! sounds way better than a 12 valve! Right Dave!? @76zimmer
Looks good Dave! Sounds good too! The one thing I like about the cummins is that it is a lot easier to work on. I really like the Duramax and now that Kate has her Dodge I really like it too.
Totally different trucks just what you like. I will say though whatever brand diesel a guy picks doesn't matter they all got their problems.
And I dont care what anyone says I will never buy a gas truck for a DD.
In fact I wouldn`t even mine a 6.2 in the Ratbag...but the 454 is looks so good in it!
Just hating on the gas jobs. It’s all I’d ever own, a deesel wouldn’t even warm up by the time I get to work
On another note....swap a oil burner in the ratbag. I could accommodate a home for that 454. Heck I’ll even bring your 305 back
I don’t pay for fuel and none of our drives are short.
I’d save the 454 for a car or c10 if it ever came out of the Ratbag.
I’d save the 454 for a car or c10 if it ever came out of the Ratbag.
Fixed it for you.
Yeah we don’t all have access to farm fuel like some.
I’m with @76zimmer on the price of fuel. Seems deesel is always more expensive than gazoline half the time around here anyways.
