Change my gaskets 3 1/2 years ago and went back to look at the pics. The last two rockers and the underside of the valve cover looks exactly like mine.

 

Ok that's good to know, I wasn't sure about em

 

Have been crazy busy with work, but I did get around to replacing that oil pan gasket and wow that was one hell of a task for me. Halfway through I regretted not jacking up the engine because it's insanely hard to get both surfaces clean with everything in the way. The truck also seems much lower than I thought once you're up under there. I'm seriously just praying it doesn't leak because I'd prefer to not have to do that again for a very very long time, but it does feel damn good now that it's done (as long as it holds). I previously finished the gaskets, but still had everything dismantled from when I did the previous gaskets so today I put everything back together along with a bunch of new parts and just cranked it up. It's been running the past 20 minutes and I haven't seen any leaks so far so good. I won't be able to actually drive it until I get it registered sometime next week.

I am going to change the oil that I just put in it after it's been running a while because I'm pretty positive I got debris in the oil pan while changing the gasket, also I was doing it on gravel so I noticed every time I slide in and out from under the truck I was stirring up sand, dust, etc that I'm sure got in to the oil pan as well. I bought some marvel mystery oil that I'm going to put in the oil once I change it and I'll run it with that for a couple hundred miles and then change the oil again and then I think it should be good at that point. Thanks everyone for all the help, I really appreciate it

 

"CONGRATULATIONS"

 

Thanks, it definitely feels good getting all of that done. The one thing I noticed is the truck idles kind of weird. It was sputtering and almost searching/surging at some points like it was about to stall, but then it would stable out and run fine for a bit and then search/surge a little again. I think I'm going to run some seafoam through the tank and then change the fuel filters and see how it runs after that. Also there's a strong fuel/gas smell while it was idling like it's burning really rich. Gas went down a good notch while it was idling for about 35 minutes so it seems like it's really burning fuel, but I'll have to watch it once I'm actually driving it so I can see what's going on. Maybe the fuel regulator is bad?