Dang, I'm worried. Diseasel300 would normally be all over this. Here is my earlier thread, a lot of the stuff was covered there:

http://www.peachparts.com/shopforum/diesel-discussion/395523-another-weird-noise-my-300sdl.html

Sorry I dumped all the photos from my hosting service.

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