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justALnow
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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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Hannibal
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Jul 07, 2013
MOtrout wrote:

Yeah that's kinda funny? Diesels are way less complicated than modern gas engines now dsys. Even with all the fuel management systems on all modern diesels they are still simple. You just gotta get under the skin just like the gas engine.


Fifteen years ago yes. Now, not by a long shot. Gas engines are very simple to troubleshoot and fix in comparison. Way less to go wrong and not nearly as finicky.

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