Hi all, so after all that overheating that we finally got diagnosed and resolved (clogged radiator + water pump just to confuse things).

It looks like my head gaskets are blown. 2004.5 LLY with 240K km on it. Seem a bit premature but hey, it did overheat quite badly a few times.

I brought it to a diesel specialist in my hometown and had them do an oil change + a general diagnosis on low coolant and they identified head gaskets, mostly when the truck was cool, once warmed up it seemed to be not so bad they described.

There's other items to do as well (brakes + ball joints / control arms.. .etc) I can and will do all that but I don't think i'm competent to tackle head gaskets.

They quoted $8k (CAD) so about 6k US + incidentals to do the head gaskets.

I'm going fish around for a competent 'off the books' mechanic to see if I can get that done cheaper.

My questions are: While it's opened up what else should I do?

Thanks allot,

Gary Lucas