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Old Mar 24, 2011 | 11:35 PM
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PULLING motor.apart to do head gasket. How do you get the last 4 pushrods out???
 
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Old Mar 25, 2011 | 12:04 AM
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There is a hole in cowl above, just lift threw hole and turn and pull out. It stumped me for a while to. there may be insulation in way.
 
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Old Mar 25, 2011 | 04:36 PM
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Got em out. Thanks pukie
 
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Old Mar 25, 2011 | 05:26 PM
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Yeah they can be kinda tricky. They stumped me the first go around as well
 
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Old Mar 25, 2011 | 07:38 PM
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My local diesel guy told me before i did it... thank goodness cause this redneck would've never figured it out..
 
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Old Mar 26, 2011 | 07:19 AM
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I'm sitting there looking at the rods and I'm like this is typicall car manfs... can't do anything without taking up the cab ! Lol just like a 6.0 I wouldn't of found it. Lmao. Turns out head good after185 k . Gasket aroumd water jacket let go n was leaking externally . Can't wait to get it back together n beat it some more ! Thanks bombers!
 
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