I feel like ive been to war with this truck. About 7 years ago I bought it unaware of the "design issues" and ended up replacing the engine (it turned out it had a crack in the head). I got a bad taste in my mouth, had it up for sale for a while and no bites. I took it off the market and it sat in the back yard for a while. I got back into IH8Mud and noticed there was a lot more information cool mods that could be made. I have the bug again ( or affliction, if you will) to get wrenching again! My son is 8 yrs and we had fun firing er up again. Changed the oil and got it insured. It takes 15 cranks to cold start but once its running for the day, it starts no prob. So great to be driving this truck again! More posts to come. Thank god for ih8mud because I cant do this myself, lol