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Alright so some of you have probably been wondering why I haven't been doing keeping up on the board recently, well it's because for whatever reason I am bound and determined to make something of this here 55. I know I had mentioned that in the past I had been having cooling problems with the truck and thought after replacing the thermo and hoses that the water pump may have been clogged. Well it turns out that from the boiling coolant in the overflow container that the head gasket was gone, well actually the head gasket was fine it was a cracked head. So with the help of a few of our members I was able to located the sought after 1.5F head which in my case with the 79 block increases the compression slightly. Josh in High Point was able to help me out and I thank him for that. So then it was off to the machine shop for a magnaflux, new valve seats, seals, springs, and valve regrind with a small decking of the head. In the meantime I figured why not just start this project from the inside out, so new alternator, regulator, and water pump. Here's a few pictures to get started. Last photo is the common oil galley plug mod.