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I appreciate you knowledge and opinion on this. I have been around engines and equipment most of my life and hope to be able to see any problems coming before it gets too bad to recover from. We will see when the truck goes in for a valve adjustment and if I decide to have the head gasket...

I agree with you on that. Just because it may be safer, or easier in some ways to drive for an owner, its not for me. Sure there are risks, but that is exactly why I want to learn how to mitigate those risks as much as possible. I may lose money on the rig I bought, sure, but I choose to focus...

Good to know, Flying Van. Hopefully that will be the case for my coal eating beast. My cooler was done about 50k ago at 580k so I will have the head done ASAP just because I'm a big believer in preventative maintenance and taking good care of my equipment in general. Besides, doing the head...

Hello Sir. You had me at " Build a company from the ground up". A person could learn a Lot from a guy like you... I'm a year old newbie and a sponge for good information. Very glad to have run across your post.

As has been said, you won't get instant pressure just cranking it briefly. It takes a bit for the pressure to reach the sensors and guages. I would give an engine 5 or 10 seconds before assuming the worst, but be careful, bad things can happen Fast! It makes sense to me that if the pump lost...

I'm in the same place with mine. I feel like after all the repairs and time spent fixing the issues, I can go back out with confidence knowing that most of the major stuff will be good for a while. I need a year or two out of this rig so I can upgrade, or buy new. As far as driving for someone...

Well, within a month it needed front wheel bearings, shocks, exhaust, air dryer, wire harness repairs, climate control switch, wiper motor.. 5 months later it started to overheat and developed a bad air leak. I made it home ( barely) and pulled the hood and radiator off to flush, or replace if...

MONEY PIT. This truck is worse than a boat! Bought an 07 M2 a year ago as a first truck to get started with and this thing is eating all my profits... I'm an owner operator who found the truck through a fleet owner I briefly considered working for. The guy missed his calling, he should have been...

Took time off to rest and relax, but ended up doing much work on the truck... much more that I thought, or knew it needed but learned a lot.

I had the same issue on my 07 M2. There were some badly corroded wires inside the wiring harness that ran from the original chassis harness to the box. You will need to spend the time to track down the feeds to the rear to find where the breaks in current flow are and repair as necessary. This...