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How many here have had a head gasket failure?

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Old Aug 15, 2011 | 08:47 PM
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Is your truck stock
 
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Old Aug 16, 2011 | 11:53 PM
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ive done a set while in the truck, not fun
 
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Old Aug 17, 2011 | 07:22 PM
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Originally Posted by 2500HeavyDuty
ive done a set while in the truck, not fun
Mine were done in 20hrs, just need to know the right people, they are a pain in the butt, however its gotta be done
 
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Old Aug 26, 2011 | 05:53 AM
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Doing the HG's on my 05 now, Ive had the rig for 5500 miles Curious how many others have gone through this.
I'm getting ready to have mind done if it fails the pressure test. Im loosing coolant out my overflow. It doesn't leak while its running but as soon as I shut I down it starts to purge through the over flow. It wont stop until I open the overflow cap.

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Old Sep 2, 2011 | 06:53 PM
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I had to do mine just after it turned 100k.I had a buddy of mine help me and we had it done in about 20-22 hrs. Before i did mine I had it to the dealers twice and they said they didnt find any thing. But then why did it keep pushing antifreeze out of the resivore and the upper hose would feal like a steel pipe after it sat for about 4hrs. When pulled apart we found that the ring around the cylinder on four of them were failing.
 
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Old Sep 2, 2011 | 07:02 PM
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Originally Posted by BriteWhiteRam
Mine were done in 20hrs, just need to know the right people, they are a pain in the butt, however its gotta be done

did mine on my own with a bad back, next time if i have to do it id pull the engine out, or lift the cab off.

the biggest annoyance is that damn lb7 downpipe, i broke two 12 point sockets trying to get that thing out. some shops drop the trans because its that much of a pain in the ***.
 
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Old Sep 3, 2011 | 10:37 AM
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Originally Posted by 2500HeavyDuty
did mine on my own with a bad back, next time if i have to do it id pull the engine out, or lift the cab off.

the biggest annoyance is that damn lb7 downpipe, i broke two 12 point sockets trying to get that thing out. some shops drop the trans because its that much of a pain in the ***.
when I did mine I didnt even pull the turbo, we were able to sneak the intake bolts out, BARELY I didn't say that it wasn't a PITA but its much easier to do in the truck than a powerstroke
 
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Old Sep 3, 2011 | 04:00 PM
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Originally Posted by BriteWhiteRam
when I did mine I didnt even pull the turbo, we were able to sneak the intake bolts out, BARELY I didn't say that it wasn't a PITA but its much easier to do in the truck than a powerstroke

i didnt pull the turbo out either, but the downpipe isnt a vband clamp on the new models, lb7's have some pain in the *** bolts in them. i pulled the head off with the exhaust and intake manifold on
 
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Old Sep 4, 2011 | 01:51 AM
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durn LB7's gotta be the difficult ones ehhhhh???
 
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Old Sep 5, 2011 | 07:58 PM
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mine just blew its a common problem
 
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