[Gregski]

a couple tips if I may:

1. check all 12 (six per side) exhaust manifold bolts while the engine is out of the vehicle, they tend to break, and it's so much easier to get them out while the engine is out of the vehicle

2. check all 12 exhaust manifold bolts, lol now may be the time to replace the fugly EGR three hole flange stock manifolds with the cast Hooker two hole flange ones, the stock ones love to kiss the frame of the truck

3. remove the oil pan and please wash it out with Dawn dish soap so that you can eat Cheerios out of it, no sense on adding new oil to the sludge on the bottom of the old pan

4. check your water pump pulley and spin all pulleys, belt tensioner, idler, etc without the belt on and listen for wierd noises or any dragging, now's the time to change those if you like

5. remove the plastic intake manifold, don't be skierd, there is a mouse nest under there and you may want to evict them, clean that valley nice and good like