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Oh yes, memories! Trials and tribulations of dealing with Diesel Depot! But the engine components are not mine anymore, they have been sold and will be installed in a much lighter and very nice white 1/2 ton 4x4!

Joe is talking about adding the HX 40 on his green truck. The reason for naming the color of the truck is simple, in case anyone is interested. Joe has a green 3/4 ton, Bill has a red 3/4 ton, Bill has a green 1 ton, Bill has a white 1/2 ton (go fast gas motor). Todd has a blue 3/4 ton, Todd...

Imagine walking into the throttle at 70mph in your OEM turbo equipped truck and it pulls hard and continues to do so up through 100mph...such was my conversation with Bill yesterday as I ordered mine. Just as Paveltoz stated above. I rode in Joe's, Bill's son, green 3/4 ton ex-cab 4x4 log...

Be prepared for some very loud and damaging noises, very soon, with that boost pressure!

Well, Limey, we did leave you behind, I will admit that. But we sure talked about you a lot. Actually you were blamed for more things than I can remember!! Now bring that Jag over here and we can cruize the Salt LQQKing good, well, I will at least!

I had better chime in on the next leg of the 'trip'. First, I drove my 81 Chevy 2wd short box, 250 in-line 6, with the A833 3 speed and overdrive and 3:08's. I left Paul's place and made it to Elko, Nv. Checking the weather for Donner and seeing that the next day would be better traveling. I...

This trip has been a lot easier on fuel, that is for sure. Big problem is I sure would liked to of had ol' Sunshine riding along. Limey, if I would of been driving on road 191 in Arizona, I WOULD OF STOPPED TO LOOK AT THE COUNTRY! It was one of the most beautiful sites I had ever seen. And I...

After a few more calls to Avant Salvage I got thru to Benny and he said he would have everything else, for the engine build, shipped to me. To me, that would be rings, all the needed bearings, the gasket kit, and a check for $640. He said he would send it 3 day freight. That was Monday and...

I believe I did say balancing and blue printing!

Well when I was drag racing years ago, balancing and blue printing an engine was what was call race specs. And then with gapless rings, teflon coated piston shirts, ceramic coating all the extreme heated areas and then doing the extrude-hone work should amount for something! Along with heat...

Yep, the block had no damage. I was sent a Scat crank turned down for the 2 piece rear main, and a balanced flywheel. The I did get the heads, but had to go thru them! NICE JOB DIESEL DEPOT Months later I received the rods, used camshaft, and used lifters. The yesterday the pistons...

I would say they were just trying to save money by using the cheaper parts. They have the parts, a lot of used parts from Avant Salvage. The engine broke in March, last year. The broken parts were sent to them in April. The phone calls started about the middle of April and have continued ever...

Well people Diesel Depot has done it to me again. For the past week or more I have been told everything else has been shipped, but I wasn't given a tracking number. OK on everything, that to me, would be the complete gasket kit, the rod, main, and cam bearings, pistons, piston rings, and a check...

Lost my overdrive years ago. Went to the stealership, long before these sites were around. Code said brake light switch. They cleared the code, for $86.00, I left went to the parts counter and bought one and installed it, left and same problem came back, no overdrive. Went to a transmission...

With my 81 Chevy it has a pivot ball on the block and so does my 84 K30. Both mchanical clutch systems.

Actually that engine was painted Chevy orange. That particular engine, built by Jamie Avant at Diesel Depot, was supposed to be the real deal with all kinds of real trick stuff done to it. All that neat stuff and they used King Bearings and #7 went away and took out the crank. The bottom of the...

It is my story and I am sticking to it! It 'was' the outside temperature (some where)!

For those of you not sure of Limey's (Sunshine) comment. When he came over for the races at the Salt Flats, 2 years ago, I picked him up and we did a site seeing trip towards Utah. His turn to drive from Reno towards Wells and strolled right up to the 100mph area and just cruised. But I should...

Yes I did forget that little bit. I have been strung out for such a long time and have been told so many times so many different things, small stuff simply gets away from me. Benny did say that all the parts sent to me would be new not used. The $640 check was for 16 hours of engine rebuild...

Well after many calls Benny at Avant Salvage/Diesel Depot and many not answered calls Benny sends me a text message with the UPS tracking numbers for my missing parts. I called and asked him if all the parts were included. The camshaft, lifters, rods, pistons, gasket kit, and bearing. I mean...