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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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Cummins12V98
Explorer III
Jul 09, 2013
justALnow wrote:
After weighing the options, I think I'm gonna have it fixed. Called around today and got estimates from the local Chevy dealer and GMC dealer which both came in around $5K.

The service adviser at Chevy seemed to know exactly what I was talking about when I dropped the buzz words "Duramax" and "head gaskets".

"Yep, done a bunch of 'em." Splendid.

Oh well, gotta be done.


What the He!! are they going to do for 5G's" ? For that kind of money I would be pricing out factory long blocks WITH A WARRANTY!

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