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Peter Monshizadeh
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Enjoys working on vehicles with poor reputations.

Brilliant article, just brilliant.
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Faaaaark me they are beautiful to look at... Love the 90's Blade’s... i’ve had 3 Fireblades 04/05/09 over the years myself. Excellent article.
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This is only done to allow overfilling of the trans. without added coolers or anything on the side of that adding an extra quart of lube over the fill hole allows for better lubrication and a little additional thermal mass to absorb heat.
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Great article! I love these trucks... I’ve had four of them... 96, 01, 03 and now an 05 that has 114k miles on it, also a 6sp manual. I bought it in 2007 with 48k on it. Read more

Late 01 and 02 are Dana’s still. In the third gens they went to AAM axles spring perch spacing changed as did the brakes and just about everything else on the rears.
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Very informative and entertaining write-up. Regarding the (relative) joy of driving the six-speed: when I was in college I worked summers for a lawn care company. One of our trucks was a ‘99 Ram 2500 with the Cummins. I was endlessly entertained by putting it in 2nd at a stop sign, then just letting the clutch out Read more

The manifold bolts would have been equipped originally with anti-rotation straps you can buy them from cummins, see them in this picture item #1.

Finding myself inside this truck Read more

The oil filter is roughly $25 using the OEM filter. Oil is roughly $60 using Rotella. Read more

Great post! Always good to see people taking care of a vehicle and I enjoyed reading through the steps and seeing the pictures. Jalopnik could use a whole lot more of these posts! Read more

I love this so much. There is something so genuine about a clean, cared for pick-up truck. Read more

BMW’s late-80s king of the high-speed sports-touring bikes, the K1, is the most rad of all the motorrad. This one, with a giant rectangular headlamp, ABS, and a ketchup-and-mustard paint job, is the embodiment of rad motorcycles. Ya dig? Read more

Trust me, it looks much better with a blue top. It was the one thing that was changed and it was done purely for aesthetic reasons (it can be easily change back to grey at any time). The only two options from the factory were grey and black and grey just did not look very good with the original color combination.