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justALnow
Explorer
Jul 06, 2013

Duramax bites the dust - Blown head gasket @ 102K miles

I'm bummed - Been a Chevy man all my life and spent extra money back in '05 for the dependability and reliablity of a diesel. 2500 HD Silverado CrewCab 4x4 barely made it past 100K miles and now i...
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jerem0621
Explorer II
Jul 06, 2013
OP... This is terrible! I am an advocate for Gassers simplicity, but realistically, gassers fail as well. I hope everything gets buttoned up and fixed right.

I'm not sure if there are any upgrades that you can do while the heads are off. I don't hear too much about Duramax's needing bulletproofed much.

Jeremiah

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