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Hammertime 
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| re: Best Diesel place around Baton Rouge? (Posted on 11/15/12 at 11:22 am to El Josey Wales)
It is at TNT right now getting the $5500 worth of needed work done to it
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DownshiftAndFloorIt
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| re: Best Diesel place around Baton Rouge? (Posted on 11/15/12 at 11:23 am to Hammertime)
Sonuvabitch that's a whole lotta bones
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El Josey Wales
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| re: Best Diesel place around Baton Rouge? (Posted on 11/15/12 at 11:24 am to DownshiftAndFloorIt)
No shite. My truck is the same age. I would be royally pissed and upset I got a $5500 estimate to fix it.
ETA: But I've got a Duramax! 
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DownshiftAndFloorIt
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| re: Best Diesel place around Baton Rouge? (Posted on 11/15/12 at 11:27 am to El Josey Wales)
I can rip the whole engine outta my truck and put a brand new one in for 1400 bucks. frick a diesel.
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MrCoachKlein 
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| re: Best Diesel place around Baton Rouge? (Posted on 11/15/12 at 11:30 am to guesswho)
Mark Valiollahi at University Car Care (right off of LSU campus). Probably the best diesel guy in BR, and without a doubt the most honest you'll meet.
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Hammertime
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| re: Best Diesel place around Baton Rouge? (Posted on 11/15/12 at 11:35 am to MrCoachKlein)
I shoulda done head studs after the programmer, but didn't have the $3500. Regretting it now b/c the trip to Coy's for disassembly/assembly cost $3000, and the work at TNT is $5500.quote:
Mark Valiollahi at University Car Care (right off of LSU campus)
Need cab taken off to do the work. Doubtful he can do all of that. Most smaller shops(Firestone/Goodyear) won't work on new diesels
Man, I hate arguing how fast it is on the OT when I am driving a Tahoe right now. I actually had a bad dream about it being broken two days after it went downhill fast
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DownshiftAndFloorIt
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| re: Best Diesel place around Baton Rouge? (Posted on 11/15/12 at 11:38 am to Hammertime)
So wait. You spent all that money at Coys and your shite was still fricked up?
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DownshiftAndFloorIt
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| re: Best Diesel place around Baton Rouge? (Posted on 11/15/12 at 11:39 am to Hammertime)
So wait. You spent all that money at Coys and your shite was still fricked up?
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Hammertime
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| re: Best Diesel place around Baton Rouge? (Posted on 11/15/12 at 11:43 am to DownshiftAndFloorIt)
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So wait. You spent all that money at Coys and your shite was still fricked up?
Absolutely. He said it wouldn't even run if I didn't spend the $13k. A whole new motor is fricking $17k installed. I just wanted it out of there. His answer to me arguing about the price was immediately, "Well, we can just hold onto your truck and see where it goes in court. In the end, you are still gonna have to pay me the $3k, and I get to keep your truck for that 6 months"
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DownshiftAndFloorIt
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| re: Best Diesel place around Baton Rouge? (Posted on 11/15/12 at 11:46 am to Hammertime)
So what it amounts to is you paid him 3 grand for not a damn thing and now have to spend 5 grand elsewhere?
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Hammertime
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| re: Best Diesel place around Baton Rouge? (Posted on 11/15/12 at 11:48 am to DownshiftAndFloorIt)
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So what it amounts to is you paid him 3 grand for not a damn thing and now have to spend 5 grand elsewhere?
Ding ding ding
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DownshiftAndFloorIt
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| re: Best Diesel place around Baton Rouge? (Posted on 11/15/12 at 12:02 pm to Hammertime)
Alright. Just making sure I had that right.
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El Josey Wales
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| re: Best Diesel place around Baton Rouge? (Posted on 11/15/12 at 12:03 pm to DownshiftAndFloorIt)
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So what it amounts to is you paid him 3 grand for not a damn thing and now have to spend 5 grand elsewhere?
Jesus fricking Christ.
I'm getting mad just reading about it. I would have had the cops there by the time I left. frick that dude.
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Walt OReilly
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| re: Best Diesel place around Baton Rouge? (Posted on 11/15/12 at 12:06 pm to guesswho)
coys diesel is owned by a buddy of mine that i went to elementary school with
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El Josey Wales
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| re: Best Diesel place around Baton Rouge? (Posted on 11/15/12 at 12:07 pm to Walt OReilly)
And here comes Walt to troll the thread. 
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Walt OReilly
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| re: Best Diesel place around Baton Rouge? (Posted on 11/15/12 at 12:11 pm to El Josey Wales)
promise im not trolling
we went to Shenandoah Elem together
from there he went to Southeast middle and then to Woodlawn...i went to Parkview Baptist
i still see him when our groups all go out together
he either just got engaged or just got married
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Walt OReilly
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| re: Best Diesel place around Baton Rouge? (Posted on 11/15/12 at 12:11 pm to El Josey Wales)
he actually lives right down the road from me
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Hammertime
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| re: Best Diesel place around Baton Rouge? (Posted on 11/15/12 at 12:12 pm to El Josey Wales)
I would rather not do business at a place like that, so I paid up with $100 bills and got it towed that same day.
The guys at TNT knew about all of the recalls on it, and even pulled an Oasis report from a Ford dealership to see what had/hadn't been done in the past. The only bad thing is that they don't work on transmissions. I kinda wanted to check out my clutches because it is only $650 to replace them, but they said they don't have anyone certified to do it. I was much happier with that than some idiot trying to wing it. Oh yeah, they don't have a dyno anymorequote:
he actually lives right down the road from me
Do you drive a $150k truck too?
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Walt OReilly
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| re: Best Diesel place around Baton Rouge? (Posted on 11/15/12 at 12:19 pm to Hammertime)
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Do you drive a $150k truck too?
no a landrover
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Walt OReilly
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| re: Best Diesel place around Baton Rouge? (Posted on 11/15/12 at 12:23 pm to Walt OReilly)
a pic of Mr. and Mrs. Redmond
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