Ok you twisted my arm. TSP doesn't show whether or not they're in stock, but they're ordered nonetheless, along with new cam and mds delete kit.
I've seen you mention on other threads that babying it doesn't do it any favors. I goose it from time to time, but mostly I drive pretty tame. I leave for work just after 5am when there's not so much traffic, and I usually just put the cruise on 65 and chill. The drive home is much more congested and stop/go. I do have 4.10 gears tho so rippems are higher than they were with the old 3.21s. I ordered a choppy cam (I want to SOUND fast lol, but I don't care so much anymore about BEING fast, at least not in this truck) so it's going to get a tune for that and for the MDS delete, plus I want the idle bumped up (if the cam tune doesn't do it already) and a few other changes.
My question is, with the higher idle, and therefor increased splash on the cam at idle, does it still need to be driven harder or will that be sufficient to keep the lifters lubed and happy? Most days, the truck idles 5-10 minutes when I remote start it in the morning, another 10-15 minutes in the parking lot when I get to work, and then another 5-10 minutes when I remote start it again after work, so 35 minutes max per day, 4-5 days a week. I could probably get back into driving it more aggressively. I used to wring the shyt out of my gti and forced myself to drive more conservatively in the truck in attempt to avoid the kinds of repairs I'm about to make, but we see how that worked out.
I also sprung for the standard volume Melling oil pump. I'm aware the installed spring raises the pressure, but I can't wrap my brain around how the pressure increases without also increasing the volume. Apparently there's an included standard pressure spring, but I haven't yet taken the time to learn how one might be more beneficial over the other.