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Something tells me this fuel filter enjoyed a lifespan of 230000 miles -_-

Replacing my shoddy battery, replacing fuel filter, prepping for driver side exhaust manifold gasket replacement

Finally finished this project get my truck to start up and.... makes the same noise... so I get to do the other side this weekend luckily I learned that new trick to help me out and all the help from you guys... already ordered the studs they are on the way... so hopefully saturday will be the day its all done...

Stud was removed, everything is put back together... go to start and it wont turn over -_- i suspect it is something to do with my battery/terminals... the positive terminal has a lot of loose wires/ messed up wires i have rewired... any suggestions of how I should handle the positive terminal? should I just run all the wires into 1 wire and straight to the battery or what? I will make a vid tomorrow.

I should be going to finish this job today after I get off work at 5 ish so hopefully I can finish it all up and have it running today...

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Lol

Putting the final stud in... it slips falls into exhaust pipe

OEM washers

Yeah however I was taught a way to do it myself next time :X I was just lucky the person was nice...

So my stud kit came in today but I had some questions... whats the best way to get the studs in? and which way do the washers go on?

yeah i definitely advise using this technique... requires a mig welder and he demanded 3/8 nuts.. but i assume you could use any as long as they are strong enough? although one nut did break into a million red hot pieces when he was doing it so might have something to do with it... and they had to be brand new with no corrosion at all... and what he did was build up a bunch of the welding material in the shaft of then welded the nut to a "nipple" he had made with the welding material and let it cool for a bit... then he put a 9/16 wrench to it... came out on the third try... told me he was gonna keep it as a souvenir because it was the first one he did out of his shop lol.

No...because the head is aluminum he could weld and it wouldn't stick to the head

Its out a guy I deliver parts to was a couple houses down he welded a nut to it and took it out

Blahhhhhhhhhh so I drilled off center

actually on closer site its not opened its just a REALLY old package. well I'm on my way over to give this all a whirl... came home to see if my stud kit was here yet. sadly it isnt

I think I might practice on an old bolt just to get a feel for it...

Passenger side...

Went out and bought these for todayyyyy

what do you speak of? pic? example? might help me. because upon further inspection today i noticed that the bolt isn't very deep within the threads so its not flush but its also not very deep. im thinking this might help me because I don't have much room where I'm working

Not sure if I am going to attempt removal on friday or Saturday but im gonna go after class and spray it down with penetrating oil tonight and tomorrow at some point if im doing it on sat...

Haha.. its only my thumb nail haha

This guy

So today while talking to a mechanic I deliver parts to he was showing me a center to use in the stud hole and is letting me borrow it should make thing easier

sorry must of refreshed when posting or something