[VWNate1]

Oh yes ! I know exactly how lucky you are I've been running InLine 6 bangers since the 1960's and love them and know the difficulties .

When your truck was new I did parts support for them in a Municipal fleet, they were fantastic rigs *but* had serious casting flaws in the cylinder heads and few made it past 20,000 miles before cracking irreparably, at one point I had about 30 of them lined up waiting for GM to release the new, revised and crack resistant cylinder head, over 12 months waiting, at that time you could by a two year old 1/2 ton pickup for maybe $1,200 with a bad head and no replacement in sight .

We held on to ours and repaired everyone, they were all still running like new (with revised cylinder heads) when we salvaged them years later .

Once you get this sorted out you're going to love this truck .