Ok here it is... So i have coolant coming outta my cap, it blows white blue smoke at start up, but gos away after it warms up ..So im pretty sure EGR..I have sct with erics tunes, When i have my tune on and im driving down the road with the heater on blowing nice hot air,when i kick her down she starts to blow cold air,then after a bit it will blow hot air again..Head gaskets im thinking??..When i put the truck back to stock and kick her down it wont blow any cold air at all.. it stays nice and hot.. what do you guys think??

 

Where is your coolant level? Could be EGR cooler, could be headgaskets, could be both.

 

about once a week i gotta add coolant...most of the time i look its below the minimum

 

if ur loosing that much coolant id be leaning towards a HG. but then again when i blew my HG i was having to add a gallon of coolant a day (driving 150 to 200 miles a day)

 

yeah.. I just called RCD, 1200 for studs,HGs,Oil cooler,EGR D.. not bad i guess

 

Their EGR delete is as low as $175 shipped on ebay

Oil cooler are $225-$250 on ebay new.

HG's are $70 per side so about $150 total shipped

Studs are about $400 new shipped on ebay all day


So not bad, but not great, you can find better deals.

 

Cheaper is not always better.

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Well the prices I gave are for OEM oil cooler, RCD egr delete setup, Victor Reinz gaskets, and ARP headstuds.... you could improve some, but why? You could do H11 headstuds at $700 and change... not really proven to be any better, as long as the block and heads are flat ARP's are great. OEM oil cooler... well you could get a bulletproof setup for $1800 or so. Headgaskets... what would you get? I guess OEM would be comparable, not so much "better" but maybe. Price sure doesn't justify it. Black Onyx gaskets ARE Victor Reinz, just repackaged and sold for $275, and for EGR delete you could do something like Adam from FCDP or Doug's from GoGo, but those are around $600 and you can't go back to stock without buying a different intake manifold. All the prices I gave seem like reasonable prices and good parts to me... correct me if I'm wrong here...