Just Bought a 97 12valve Anything that I should do to it before I start working it.

 

make sure the killer dowl pin is taken care of....

 

drive it !! see how it runs out first keep an eye on fluids

 

as said above and then BEFORE YOU MOD THE MOTOR GAUGES GAUGES GAUGES!!!!!!!!!!!!!
its worth spend a little cash now to save you in the long run

 

and when your done with gauges buid up the tranny or you will have a nicley modded truck that looks nice in your driveway

 

It only has 103000 miles thought that was pretty low looked month and months for this truck What things can be done to the tranny? KDP how many hours and who sells the kit

 

auto or standered

 

kdp took me around 2 hrs in my own shop. i made my own tab and got a gasket kit from autozone which costed me around 30 bucks

 

let me add to that, QUALITY GAUGES!!!!!!

my truck came with glo shift guages and i may as well not even have gauges, they are IMPOSSIBLE to read during the day, put a set of sunglasses on and forget it. i have sharpie marks on the outer ring of them so i can get a general idea of where the needle is at. i moved the egt probe to the manifold right before the turbo(since it was post turbo, the readings were off) and it still reads wrong, theres no way my truck idles under 200 degrees the second i pull into the driveway before i even let it idle for a moment. they are also brand new and the face is already loose on one of them. i don't put any trust into these guages. iv got a full set of auto meters in my Chevy and they are awesome gauges, id recommend not cheeping out and just buying auto meter...

 

Auto meters or isspros is the way to go I carry the KDP kit as far as the gasket and seals go just make a tab its not worth spending the 100 bucks for someone to make it for you