Originally Posted by budhayes3

Man, now I'm really feeling the pressure to try these things out...gotta get a free Saturday and bolt them up to the 5.3 to try and help answer some questions for folks. After I found a bunch of metal on my drain plug, I was thinking of trying to get my 6.0 together quickly and cheaply and doing the SW's at the same time, but the darn truck keeps on running, oil pressure is great, just keeps ticking and tapping like always. (the metal was thin and flaky, like bearing material....wtf?) I might just go for it with the SW's so we all know, and if the 5.3 decides to break, at least the bolts will all be new and fresh to remove anyway.

BTW, I went with the Stage8's...kinda another reason I was waiting to do the headers with the 6.0 (don't want to go through the hassle of them twice). I no longer have my original exhaust manifold bolts, and the bolts from my Gibson shorties are about 5 years old and look like poop...I'm praying they all come out in one piece if I'm gonna be doing this install on my current mill.