x-15 liner shims

[Ricardo]

I absolutely agree there’s no question about it I will be cutting the counterbores, actually already started just waiting for shims to arrive before I proceed to final depth to confirm height will be as stated .014-.015

As far as engine abuse goes well I purchased this about 40k miles ago so what the previous owner did is out of my hands, was it lugged? Probably, most everyone does it and don’t understand what that does to an engine. If someone tells you they never lug it they’re lying to you.

100% stock no delete no aftermarket parts no tuning it ran fine the way it was so it’ll stay that way and get proper maintenance until it doesn’t and then we go down that rabbit hole.

As far as oem parts go well you won’t like it and by the sounds of things I’ll probably regret it later but I use {after-market branded } for all my cats and that’s what my machine shop is a dealer for so that’s what it’s going together with (liners pistons rings and gasket) everything else replaced will be oem such as oil pump cooling jets things of that nature. Will it work out for me well maybe maybe not lots of shops local to me use them and I know a few guys pushing 500k since with no issues, I can promise you oem or not this truck will not make it to a million, 10,000 hours maybe but the line of work it does it gets hours not miles.

As far as the head goes what’s the reason behind new? What’s the bad with resurfacing the head maybe only needs .001 and all the liner marks are gone? Not trying to be bullheaded or saying that I’m not open to replacing the head just seems as though we live in a throw it away and get new society these days so I just like to learn the reasoning behind why you do things the way you do