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Dropped to $11,000

Finally getting around to selling my red base H3. I picked up a H3 Alpha at the beginning of the year and don't need two H3's. https://www.ksl.com/auto/listing/4988144 Asking $11,000 due to lower mileage, condition, and comes with the remaining 20mos/66k miles of warranty.

Scheduled the pickup for the old transmission, got the carpet put back in (the floorpan/tunnel gets bloody hot when driving around for a while, especially now that the weather has gotten warmer), and got the transmission loaded into the back of the Alpha to take to work with me tomorrow for the...

Finished up getting everything hooked up with the drivetrain and the oil pressure sensor. I have a pretty ghetto temporary solution in place for mounting the gauge in the cab, I'll take some pics tomorrow. Before I replaced the axle I took a drive around the neighborhood just to make sure...

IT LIVES!!!! Spent most of Saturday getting everything put back together, and I managed to get it completed enough to be able to put fluids in the engine and transmission so that I could try starting it up. Turns out I need to get a new battery, even though the battery has been completely...

And it's in!!!!! Thanks to some help from my wife, I was able to get the engine and transmission back into the Alpha tonight. I did bolt the transmission and engine together and installed them as one unit. It was a bit touch and go at a few points, and I had to pull the passenger side engine...

Engine is all buttoned up and ready to be mated with the transmission. I cleaned up the half of the garage I've been working in (other side is still a disaster, don't judge me ) so that I could get the transmission prepped, also so that I could hopefully find the rest of the bolts... Seems I...

Daily update, mainly because I'm working on this every day trying to get as much done as possible. Pushrods arrived, got them and the rockers all installed and the valve covers on, along with the ignition coils and several various bolts threaded into the block (so that when I go to drop it in...

So, here's where I stood 16 days ago. Engine pulled and torn down, transmission sitting around being useless. And as of today, I have the engine mostly back together (still waiting on pushrods and bolts for the flexplate) and the transmission arrived this morning. So much shiny. (Sorry...

The weekend was productive, I was able to get the block assembled and the heads installed and pushrod length checked. Turns out I get to use stock length pushrods, but I'm going to go with brand new Comp Hi-Tech rods to make me feel better, plus I can get them quickly from Summit. I was also...

Checked clearances on the crankshaft last night, everything was still within production specs so I went ahead and did the final clean of the crank and journals and installed it. Next up is the camshaft and rods/pistons. I should be able to get those all checked and installed tonight, and if I'm...

A few developments. The transmission has shipped and will be here the 18th, so that's good. And Summit shipped my order today and it is supposed to get here tomorrow. Unfortunately the head gasket set I ordered off Amazon came today and it turns out it's the wrong one. The frustrating part is I...

Heads are torn apart and cleaned (thank goodness I picked up that c-clamp style spring compressor a few months ago on a whim for a couple bucks from a thrift shop, it's made this so much easier than using the puller type), lapped the exhaust valves to clean them up (intakes are fine, and...

I picked up the block, heads, crank, and rods/pistons this past Thursday. Everything checked out ok and needed minimal cleanup. The scratch really isn't too bad, and the pistons are OK so I'm going to be re-using them as well. Next time around I might spend the time and money to build up a...

Dropped the block and heads off at the machinist this morning, there are a couple deeper scratches in cylinder 3 but he thinks they should come out with a honing. Everything else looks really good, he's going to check the rods, polish the crank journals, clean and check the heads and face them...

I did not, this is my first Alpha. My other H3 is just a base model with the 3.7 i5 and the only package it had added to it was the tow package. This Alpha has the 5.3 V8 (since that is what makes it an Alpha), the luxury package (leather, nav, Bose audio system with subwoofer), adventure...

So here's the diagnosis. Lifter for cylinder 6 intake valve seems to have had something chew through it, probably a needle bearing, though I didn't notice any missing. So the lifter is shot as well as the camshaft. Fortunately everything else looks OK. The pushrods look fine, as does the...

So it's been a bit since I updated this, mostly because I haven't really had time to do much on the truck thanks to work consuming far more of my time than I would like it to. Since the last post I hauled a pop-up camper down to Moab and spent a few days down there with my daughters and a bunch...

Almost forgot, one of the other things I did was to straighten the rear wiper arm. The stock setup is horrible, it basically cleans only half the rear window. Straightening it and re-clocking the arm allows it to clean a much more usable section of the rear window.

Once that was all done I checked my list of things to do and remembered that I had noticed at least one of the mounting bolts for my winch didn't look like I had tightened it down all the way, so I got back under there and sure enough it was loose. Good thing I didn't need to use it before now...