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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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jbee
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Jul 22, 2013
justALnow wrote:
Bit of an update:

Went ahead and spent the extra $$ for ARP studs, Grade C gaskets and a new water pump. Report from my guy is that it indeed did have a blown gasket on the right side. He had to wait on some parts (the studs), but I should get the truck back sometime this week.

Anxious to get it back - I wanna go camping!


Sounds like you should have a fairly "bullet proof" setup once you get it back. Studs are something I think all makes could benefit from even before a failure.

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