I LOVE this video! Gapping valves and promoting GMCs
 

Love this guy! Tell them Block heads out there how it is! lol!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyoTQ0xaLBo

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It's easier and quicker to adjust the valves while the engine's running.

I love his commentary on the ignorant people who badmouth our V6s.

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LOL! Yeah, I post this video on the chevy truck forum alot for those guys who bring up the all so glorious 350 to replace these V6's.

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LOL! Like this guy. Most of the knuckleheads around here look a you like your growing horns out of your head when you say 305 v6. God forbid you mention it at the parts store.

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HAHA! SO dang true! I remember when I first got my GMC and went to get TUNE UP parts for my 305 at Napa....and I remember the awkward silence when I asked the guys there. They were like...you mean 305 V8 right? And I'm like...NO, It's a V6. Gotta love it!

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First Time I was in the NAPA parts house in Brigham, I told the guy I had a 1965 GMC With 305 and he said he knew what I needed and started pulling parts, so I let him do his things, when he piled all the parts on the counter I told him is a 1965 GMC V6 engine, he would need to look it up under GMC Truck to find the parts, so he told me there was no such a thing, and I asked him to look it up anyway. the look on his face was priceless.

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lol! Yeah, The guys at Napa would tell me they had never heard of one and didn't think it existed. But in this case the customer was right. lol

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The IDIOTS at my local NAPA store have never heard of a Chevy 350 V-8! Seriously, even the general manager doesn't know anything. Worst parts store I've ever been in.

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They probably relate to it as a 5.7 liter V8. Bad enough I was getting some part for my 02 Trans Am from Oreilly auto parts the counter person kept repeating 350 350 350!!!! I told him no:pullinghairout: it's a 5.7 liter LS1 which is a 346 but their book says 350:lolsmack2::lolsmack2:

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It would be the "Chevy" part that would throw these clowns when their computer says "Chevrolet".

Last time I was there I ordered all three flex lines for the brakes on my '96 F-250. I told the manager I needed the little U-shaped clips that held the one end. He says, " They're generic, I have boxes of them, I can get the right ones when I see the hoses.' 2-3 days later I go in to get the hoses and he tells me, "I wouldn't have anything like that...". Too lazy to look was my impression. I'll never cast a shadow in his doorway ever again.

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Well the guys at my napa aren't Quite that ignorant! lol Thank God. But it is funny when they give you that look. Even at the car show I took my truck to a lot of people were like...DUDE! Its got a V6!

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The farming area I grew up in was a very high production area for livestock, hogs outnumbered people by several times, cattle did too. Every small town had a couple feed mills to grind & mix livestock feed plus a couple livestock trucking companies. Dad drove for several of them at different times. Gasoline powered semi-tractors were the preferred prime mover for all these companies. It wasn't until the very late 1960's that one or two company owners were brave enough to buy a diesel.

There were several companies that ran Ford Super-Duty gas engines exclusively, one happening to be owned by the owner of the local Ford dealer. Lots and lots of IH Red Diamond 450-6's, and everybody had a BIG V-6 GMC. Some companies had several. So I was exposed to BIG V-6 power at an early age riding shotgun with Dad. The guy Dad drove for the most even had a TORO-FLOW V-8 diesel in a Chevy C-70 short nose conventional.

I wasn't very old when I started driving, feed trucks, dump trucks, grain trucks. About '75 I started hauling ready mix concrete in a '74 Diamond REO with 555 V-8 Cummins & Allison ,5-speed.

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Wish my area had a bunch of V6's. lol I'd be making my own Stock pile!

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Too bad you weren't a member of the forum a couple of years ago, Tom. I took a 305 and two 351s to the scrapper because I didn't have room to keep them all. That's where most of those heads and manifolds came from that you saw on my shelves.

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Yeah, Heck....2 years ago I was deep into rebuilding my 66's 292! haha Didn't even know what a V6 looked like; heard of it...but never had much interest until I saw mine for the first time. Oh well, Hoping a 379 or 401 will pop up in Oregon one day. Plan would be to swap out the 305 for one of those and then put the 305 in a 1000. I've been doing some heavy hauling with my GMC and I'm REALLY feeling the need for a gear splitter or some more cubic inches. But that V6 does a darn fine job for it's size I will say.