u/OptiGuy4u

Will wolfbox replace it? Could it be time to replace the SD card, it hasn't even been 6 months.

It will sometimes just go black and sometimes just freeze completely with a still image and requires a hard reset (pull power).

It's always in the same spot in my 23 powerboost platinum. I come up to the stop sign in my very small neighborhood and it's 5:30ish am when I'm going to work. I slow roll the stop sign which is one house over from my driveway because it's early, dark, and obvious nobody is around and when I press the gas pedal, nothing. I keep pressing I can even go to the floor and there's a period of 5 seconds or so that nothing happens.

When it finally wakes up, it lurches forward like I just slammed on the gas. How hard depends on how much I have kept addvancing the pedal.

I'm afraid this might happen pulling into traffic or something.

I know the dealer is gonna say they can't duplicate but it happens around once a week in the same spot.

It is not in EV mode when this happens. The engine is already running since it's a slight incline out of my driveway which always kicks in the gas engine as I start to move.

Getting prepared for a 6.0 rebuild project (including the bottom end) and my craftsman click style torque wrenches are about 10 years old but have been in their oem containers and only used a few times. Kept with the torque setting backed off to zero and in my toolbox drawer hardly disturbed.

Should I seek out a place to get them calibrated before I trust them?

Complete story here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/LSSwapTheWorld/s/l7xH393qsY

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I'm planning on building a LS and was originally planning on an LQ4 or LQ9 6.0 and even considered stroking it out to a 408.

I'm in no hurry and my original plan was to slowly build a junkyard engine completely over the next year. Goal is 600-700 ish HP. Forced induction but not sure if that's turbo or SC. Can set the bottom end up for boost (compression ratio, ring gap, etc) but decide that later. E85 isn't very common where I am, I'd like to stick to pump gas but could add water/meth injection if necessary.

I want it to be streetable but we do have a small dragstrip nearby and who knows, I'd probably run it once in a while for fun but it won't see a lot of high RPM.

Ultimately I'd like to drop it in a regular cab short bed truck but damn those are so pricey because everyone wants them.

But I came across a good deal on an 08 Tahoe with a 5.3. (which I'd totally be ok with) I know they can make some serious HP and I'd be good with 600ish for reliability and not pushing it too hard.

Am I crazy to think it's so much easier to buy something high mileage and yank the motor and rebuild it knowing it'll be easier to adapt a built motor to the same vehicle it came out of rather than the fight of finding something later and putting this engine in it?

I'm willing to put in the budget either way. Expecting to spend 10k ish on the engine build alone and mostly doing it because I want the fun of building it myself. Not interested in a crate motor.

Torn on which direction to go.

Sorry for the long read.

TLDR. With the goal of a 600-700hp streetable toy, should I buy a junkyard engine and build it slowly finding a home for it later or buy the whole vehicle now and yank the engine and build it.

My vote is season 9 episode 8. The Betrayal.

The episode played in reverse timeline when they go to India. I skip it more than the "highlights of 100" which is my second least favorite.

I did a 3x trans fluid drain and fill (well, really it was a "vac and fill" since I sucked the fluid out the fill port) and between each drain and fill, it was a pain to keep the engine running to circulate fluid.

What's the trick. I found a method online that didn't work. Do you need dealer software?

Edit: This seems to work!

select tow/haul, neutral, manual trans mode, e brake on

About 12 hours ago I started dry brining 2 Ribeyes uncovered in the fridge.

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Plans changed, can't eat them tonight or tomorrow and I go out of town on Monday so it would be at least a week before I can cook them.

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I could:

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1. Cook them tomorrow am and reheat them on the day I'm going to consume them.

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2. Vacuum pack them as is and freeze them for later. (While already dry brined?)

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3. Vacuum pack or tightly saran wrap them and fridge them for a week before I cook them. I just bought them at Sam's this morning but. I don't recall the use by date.

Received an OTA update on my 23 powerboost platinum. I don't even know what it updated but now the auto wipers do a single swipe about 30 second after starting the truck even though it's completely dry

Also, the cluster screen goes to the "my view menu" every time the truck is started. It used to do that about once a month now it does it every time you shut it off.

Anyone else just disable the updates completely?

Great job Ford