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While I’m waiting on the ECU repair, it’s time to go ahead and get all the 200k service work done. While I was pulling the skid plates to drain the radiator, I saw that the inner CV boots on both axles had split during our drive to the mountains last week.
What a mess. Grease flung everywhere. It’s amazing what centrifugal force does to axle grease at highway speeds. I’m not going to replace the boots- at 200k kilometers, it’s not worth pulling the axles and re-installing them. Any opinions on remans vs. OE? Looks like the remans are $70/ea, and the OE units are $250 or so. I don’t have a big lift, so I’m leaning towards the remans.
Got the cooling system drained and the radiator pulled this afternoon. It was definitely time to do the job… everything was in functIonal condition, but there was rust in the hoses and the radiator looked tired. No oil in the coolant that I could see, so that’s a good sign.
I’m seeing a valve cover gasket leak that wasn’t evident when I picked up the truck, but other than that and the cracked CV boots I’m not seeing fluids where there aren’t supposed to be any.
What a mess. Grease flung everywhere. It’s amazing what centrifugal force does to axle grease at highway speeds. I’m not going to replace the boots- at 200k kilometers, it’s not worth pulling the axles and re-installing them. Any opinions on remans vs. OE? Looks like the remans are $70/ea, and the OE units are $250 or so. I don’t have a big lift, so I’m leaning towards the remans.
Got the cooling system drained and the radiator pulled this afternoon. It was definitely time to do the job… everything was in functIonal condition, but there was rust in the hoses and the radiator looked tired. No oil in the coolant that I could see, so that’s a good sign.
I’m seeing a valve cover gasket leak that wasn’t evident when I picked up the truck, but other than that and the cracked CV boots I’m not seeing fluids where there aren’t supposed to be any.