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Six filter elements, new in individual bags. I paid $140, $22 each plus shipping from the HEPO filter company, successor to Oilguard. $100 shipped to your door, in the CONUS.

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I have six filter elements. I paid $22each, plus $12 shipping. $100 gets them to you delivered in CONUS.

Width of the lobe/follower contact patch. All the Pumpe Duese VW TDI's cams failed as well. Magic oil & be ****ed.

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Usually it's the BELT that chirps, the tensioner will growl when the sealed bearing goes bad. Inspect the pulleys... are the top of the ridges polished? they shouldn't be. If yes, change the belt.

GM's service manuals describe, quantify and allow some degree of grooving when replacing pads. In the salt belt, we usually have the iron oxide encroaching on the swept area.... I toss 'em and replace. Be careful, many aftermarket rotors are cheap Chinese, Brazilian produced stuff that's of...

Plugs look fine, most times the platnum tips are completely GONE by 100k. Get some Nevr-Seez on those threads...

Neither one... they both suck. Too generic, just an oil change guide. I call them "Cliff-Hangers" because just when you need a paice of hard technical information, they leave you hanging. Furthermore, their generality can be very dangerous by leading you with inaccurate information. Start here...

I've owned four IFS Gm's beginning in '88. Some off-roading, lot's of plowing, 300,000 miles, etc. NEVER needed an alignment (tires wear correctly, steers/tracks properly). Don't mistake tire wear caused by spirited driving with needing an alignment. And ALL service centers recommend alignment...

I did mine.... worked the balls. There is however a NTSB safety recall, (a small matter of not being able to see all of a sudden) search here: http://www.ntsb.gov/ I had done mine by the time it was issued.

Correct... I beleive the Cat spec is "minimum" 3%, and the super-duper-gold-$$$$ stuff there is 5%. They also have a lesser grade (prolly only $$, lol) available. And some cold weather specific, and desert specific.

D1 is THE overwhelming favorite amongst the resident wizards at www.tdiclub.com I've logged 212,000 miles on D1 and my 2001 TDI engine performs as new, uses mere ounces between 10,000 mile OCI's, and cam lobes looked perfect at my last TB change. It's www.upsolute.com chipped, and with an...