Well after many, MANY long days, sleepless nights, and frustrating times working on the truck. It seems to have found its groove.

I figured out what was making that sick ass tapping/clapping noise. Call Jeff up and he told me to pull the valve covers and sure enough two rocker arms had loosened up and were not even seated on the pushrods. I took out the pushrods and made sure they weren't bent, put them back in and tightened them down. Made all but everything go away except this small shutter I was getting. Well last after I got everything right, I pulled out of my driveway to go to my girlfriends house and it started acting up again and acting like it was missing really bad, so I turned around and went back to the house to grab the scan tool to check. Plugged it in, and it showed everything was firing right. I pulled back out of the driveway with it plugged in and everything all but seemed to clear up. It started to run like it was supposed to run. Everything felt so smooth and crisp. I took it out on the freeway, did some runs around town and it was running like a champ. Well jeff was right and it did seem to just work itself out.

And so it begins...