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Old May 10, 2017 | 10:34 PM
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Thank you fellas hes still in the bubble but he's stable and responding good. And dam is he grouchy, the nurse took his pacifier away and boy did he get pissed he didn't cry he actually gave a grunt of anger put the pacifier back and all was good lol...


 
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Old May 11, 2017 | 06:10 AM
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That's a great looking little guy, Adam. Congratulations!
 
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Old May 11, 2017 | 06:45 AM
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Congrats on the birth of your son!
 
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Old May 11, 2017 | 07:20 AM
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Congrats on the new addition, Adam! You'll have a helper in no time.
 
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Old May 11, 2017 | 08:27 AM
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in about 18 month, he can fetch beer and stuff for you and think its fun




I miss those days and mine have attitudes now at 12.5 with chores




Congrats on the lil guy
 
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Old May 11, 2017 | 09:35 AM
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Congrats Adam! Now get that truck running again. All three of my kids (even my daughter) go crazy whenever we drive the truck or Bronco. My wife's Expedition just doesn't have the novelty like an old truck.
 
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Old May 11, 2017 | 10:14 AM
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Thumbs up

+ another CONGRATS Adam.

The baby looks healthy in that pic.



 
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Old May 11, 2017 | 10:24 AM
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haha, little guy is giving the star trek 'Vulcan Salute'!
 
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Old May 11, 2017 | 12:09 PM
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Congrats Adam! My nephew had to go into NICU when he was born. It was a scary situation, but he is an awesome little boy now!

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haha, little guy is giving the star trek 'Vulcan Salute'!
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Old May 11, 2017 | 05:06 PM
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Congratulations on your son. I hope you get to bring him home soon
 
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Old May 12, 2017 | 01:01 PM
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May baby boy is born at 6:16pm was low on oxygen so he was taken to the nursery. I'll get to see him soon, nurse came and said he was doing well.I'll post some pics when I can.
You need to figure out what causes this and quit it!.....Seriously....CONGRATULATIONS!
 
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Old May 13, 2017 | 07:33 AM
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Congratulations Adam!
 
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Old May 13, 2017 | 08:33 AM
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LOL "the Spocker"!! Congrats
 
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Old May 23, 2017 | 09:23 PM
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Finally!!! Started to remove heads on the Mule. Started off with the passenger side since its the most "difficult" to get too, and here's some pics of progress.

Started with the belt ten sooner and idler pulleys.



Braker removed.


Popped VC off and look at the gooey mess.



Pictures of my stage ones covered in goo






Sorry for the blurry picture but here's with injectors out.






And my stage ones




Will continue to up date as I tear down more into the 800K heart.
 
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Old May 23, 2017 | 10:47 PM
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Dang yeah you had a lot of goo in those pictures! So are you planning on just doing the head gasket and leaving the block in the truck? If so, I have a passenger side OEM head gasket I didn't use with my kit.

I think the OEM kit was like 80 bucks or so on rock auto because they had a discontinuation or something. Oreilly's was asking like 180! Still, I'm not planning on needing that other gasket so I give you that along with the stem seals if you need it!

Otherwise I suppose I can hold onto it if something comes along on my motor (if I don't have any issues) like what happened to your truck!
 
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