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Today i went full paint suit and *still* got some on the one spot not covered! My partner's truck looks good though, even if it is a fruitless attempt to delay New England rust, lol

Anyone ever seen this shit on a 22re? CAM is completely chewed through...wtf?

Guess I figured out where the shiny oil came from lol.

It was somehow running before this...

And because I know I’ll get shit for it, yes, I have a Tesla. Y’all gave me enough shit for it a year ago when I bought it.

So this is my ride, a 2018 Silverado. For about three years now I have had a check engine light that has caused my A/C, remote start, and cruise control to not work. This past Saturday I started looking up the causes of the codes and discovered a service bulletin from 2019 about the plug in the second picture which is for a flex fuel system that my truck doesn't have and so the plug was just sitting there, facing forward, with no cover. Resolution was cutting the plug off, covering the wires (just folded the individual wires over and wrapped them in electrical tape, will be getting heat shrink this weekend to do it properly) and replacing a 15A fuse. I cleared the codes and everything starts working (except the A/C as it needs to be recharged). Just annoys me that multiple shops have looked at it and none of them thought to look at service bulletins.

I spent all day putting the engine back in the car after 3 years.

Edit: This was a 390 4spd in Blue with white interior.

Supposedly this car was bought brand new by a little old lady in Oklahoma. A pair of brothers bought the car and swapped in a 428/C6 combo, painted it ember glow metallic and drag raced it until the late seventies. My parents bought the car sight unseen and drove to Oklahoma to get it. When they got the car home it was then revealed that the engine block was blown up enough to have chunks of the valley broken out.

My parents save the crank rods and pistons and cylinder heads. They put the 351 Cleveland from a 71 Torino they scrapped out in the car to make it drivable. They never finished it, I got the car in 2010, got it running. It was my daily driver for the most part 2013 until 2023.

I took the drivetrain out of the car mostly to refresh the transmission and prepare for the 410 I have been building out of those 428 parts. After I got the engine out, it came to light that the engine crossmember was cut out before and only tack welded back into place. I ended up plating and fully welding everything back to normal so that it could drive without being all over the road because everything doesn't flex when it's welded in place.

Who else drives a truck 🛻?

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