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The hardest part is getting comfortable. A topside creeper would make it a lot easier, for sure. The night time leg cramps after working under the hood for a couple days are what kill me.
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You too huh?
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Whoa, what??
As for topside creeper, I have one of those high density foam pool floats that some neighbor had thrown in the trash because it was split in two width wise. I discretely snatched that thing up
and it was worth it's weight when doing the o-rings.That thing took all the punishment that the hood latch could dish out instead of my internals and Big Jim and the twins. It works nice to lay on the ground in a pinch, or if kneeling beside the truck doing lug nuts. I keep it in the bed now.
As for topside creeper, I have one of those high density foam pool floats that some neighbor had thrown in the trash because it was split in two width wise. I discretely snatched that thing up
and it was worth it's weight when doing the o-rings.That thing took all the punishment that the hood latch could dish out instead of my internals and Big Jim and the twins. It works nice to lay on the ground in a pinch, or if kneeling beside the truck doing lug nuts. I keep it in the bed now.
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They were Alliant. So if there is coolant in the cylinders, cracked cups are the only reason for that? Now my truck won't start at all. Just makes a loud grinding noise. I am trying to upload video of that.
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From: La La Land
They are caused by a lack of proper cooling system maintenance of the anti-cavitation Supplemental Coolant Additives (SCAs) of your coolant.
For a good article that covers this, see:
http://www.forddoctorsdts.com/articl...on-erosion-r27
Hope it's not caused by that!
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Boy, I don't know about cups causing that big of a problem in that short of time. The typical symptom of a cup failure is diesel in the coolant. For coolant to bleed through a cracked cup and then make it's way into the cylinder going around the crush washer, or past the Loctite seal at the bottom of the cup and then into the cylinder....well that's just hard for me to believe. That's not to say it hasn't happened though.
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