[MTCK]

I drove the truck around a bit, getting the feel for what it needs and working it when I needed to. It hauled my father in law's rookie snow plow operator out of his ditch when our K5 plow blazer was down getting work done on it. I also ran it across the scale, and to my surprise it was barely over 6k lbs with one full tank and no driver.

On another mission I drug my buddies Ferd diesel home when the temp plunged and his fuel gelled at -30. There is something to be said for gas in a northern climate... Trying to pull the 10k lbs Ferd up the hill exposed just how tired and out of tune the 350 was so I vowed to at least give it a tune up when the temps started to rise (it's about 8 feet too long to fit in my garage).

This last weekend I changed the cap, rotor, plugs, plug wires and fuel filter. Wow. I have never seen such a trashed cap and rotor in my life. It runs 100% better than it did now, but it is still a pig. Also fixed a large vacuum leak and coolant leak. Up next, the plans...