Well here it goes.....Last week while under the hood I noticed coolant residue around the overflow bottle, fired her up and noticed the some air bubbles popping in the bottle, ordered an EGR cooler delete kit, installed, same thing! Put a pressure test on and just watched the coolant system build pressure at idle, HEAD GASKET. Now for the good news. I called my buddy at my dealer and he told me he would no doubt warranty it, but I have to put everything back to stock. Then yesterday I spent all morning calling everyone in the country looking for headstuds that are on intergallatic backorder, found a set after 3 hours.....SO i will be undeleting on saturday, back to the dealer, and hopefully after about a week will have a studded 6.7l that I have to unchoke again for the second time.

 

I feel for ya on the delete and undelete operations... But, this is what I've had to do just to pass SMOG! That's why I just do the minimal deleting... Anyway, you are very lucky though to get this fix and "upgrade" on someone else's nickel though.

 

Sucks, but youll be better off.

Just priced some work on my '11

Pull the head, have it trued, new gasket and ARP 625's, all labor included.

2500 bucks.

 

Yea I am very glad that my dealer is cool.....I was going to do it my self but the work barn still contains project Fummins that I still havent finished, and my brother is getting alittle upset...I will keep yall posted.

 

UPDATE.......Headgasket is fixed, head decked, replaced exhaust rocker, but my dealer chickened out on the stud install, I removed all emission junk this morning after driving back from the dealer and installed a 5inch TBE exhaust from Pro Flow......Holy crap loud eh!!!! I backed smarty down to 3 to save head. I hope everyone has a safe and great holiday!!!!! Thanks to all for the help and advise over the years. Off the da bar now