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How about not using something that fails all the time? Based on the experience of you two I would never buy or recommend Champion, even to someone I disliked. 🤷‍♂️ Obviously they can't get their together and produce a product that is fit for purpose, and both of you have told them there's a problem. There's probably a billion ICE vehicles on the road. None of them would have made it past a 12 month 12k mile warranty. It's obvious that building a radiator in a factory, that lasts has been a solved problem for 100 years. I haven't ever changed a leaking radiator, except because a water pump failed and the fan took it out. I still have the one from "the giving truck" hanging on the wall of the barn for -when- Stop buying hype fueled garbage that doesn't work. I've had two Champion radiators and they never leaked. This is a bummer. I'd probably buy a plastic tank radiator and wait for warranty on the aluminum one. Then you'd have a spare.

Good to hear, hope it holds up!

When you are servicing or even checking the pressure, do you have high and low side open to the gauges?

Years ago I helped someone pulling a tranny from an Olds Toronado, if I'm remembering correctly the torque converter would get stuck on those contraptions. I'm remembering the tranny was off and the bellhousing and transmission were separated. He had tried several ways to get it out and it wouldn't budge. I finally had him hold it up off the floor and I used an air hammer on a block of wood on the side of the bellhousing and hit it, it fell right out. Don't know if you could set something up or not but a thought. Edit, correction, typo.

Nice truck! I don't care for the tie down rings in the steps.

Yup, that's what mine did, but I was at a stop sign and it just fell over.

I will tell people to hang on to those, most of the time they come up missing. My Bronco still had them when I bought it. The PO really took care of that Bronco!

Unless the shift tower breaks like the one in my 88 did. Reached over for the shifter and it wasn't there, it was laying on the floor. Fortunately I could drive home in second. They will break, mine eventually wouldn't go into first. Before I owned it that truck had a rough life!

Wow!

Nice truck!

Cool! Sounds like a plan is coming together!

Wow! That's great! Glad it's coming together.

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"My mechanic say I should manually shift into 1st and then 2nd so I don't put too much of a load onto the tranny ( or the engine) I'm not exactly sure what he meant." If you put the C6 tranny in second it goes in second and stays in second, for traction. So I assume your mechanic means shift 1-2 so you have the two gears and a better take off from a stand still.

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Congrats! Nice Truck!

That's funny, I assumed the link I posted were split, because those are the kind I had used before, thought they were all split I guess. Good eye!

Oh, okay.

You probably know about these, they are handy. https://www.harborfreight.com/7-piece-drill-stop-set-38336.html I still have some homemade ones I used on #30 drill bits. They're 1/8 (I think) steel tubing.

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Wow! Yes, good eye!

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