Help: Need shop in Boca raton/Miami Florida
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OUCH! Hate to see that on your bread and butter truck. That being said, I wouldn't write off the DURAMAX for pulling. I just retuned an LLY yesterday with 358K miles on it. Before he had me tune it it blew the head gaskets at 235K miles from a slight overheat. The dealer that did it screwed up the job BAD, and ended up filling his injectors with sand and grit doing the job. So it got injectors put in it as well by a friend as well as fixing all there mistakes putting the valvetrain back in. But the truck has been tuned it's whole life towing a 40 foot horse trailer all over the country, and other than the head gaskets and everything that happened because of a bad head gasket job, it's all origanal. This is a 05 3500 lifted 6 inches on 34's still on the origanal trans, hub bearings, and everything else. So don't count out the DURAMAX as theres plenty of them out there towing everyday with the same high miles as the CUMMINS can go.
I didn't want to be the one to make this comment first but I agree also. Much as I hate to say it because the trucks suck, the Cummins is a workhorse. Duramax are great for occasional work but if I needed something to run at full load all the time it'd be a CR 5.9 with a mild built trans. We have a fleet customer with lml's and 2 Cummins trucks. 2 of the lml's got engines at around 250k. We're just waiting out the other two. One broke crank and one cracked pistons. The drivers love the Duramax's but the Cummins just keep clicking along. The 03 has over 400k, original besides trans, the p-pump got an engine at 400k because they ran it out of oil.
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Think this caused it.. Pin for reluctor wheel.. Throw the timing off drastically.. Enough to loose power backfire through intake then brake the crank.. Anything wrong with that thinking?
The problem with Dodge is, sure the engine PROBABLY won't leave you stranded, but some other part in the truck will. No way I'd ever trade for any reason.
Think this caused it.. Pin for reluctor wheel.. Throw the timing off drastically.. Enough to loose power backfire through intake then brake the crank.. Anything wrong with that thinking?
but why in the world would that shear? is it banged up from anything?
That will 100% make it run bad. I had a small chip off one tooth on a reluctor and the truck would run like pure garbage. Sounded 180° out of time. Sometimes it wouldn't even start
Better check the oil pump out really well. Only thing the reluctor gear is driving. Has the balancer ever came loose on it? Was it tight upon removal this time?
Balancer was extremely tight needed 3/4" impack to get it off.. Which I out it on with 3/4" impact
Found a LBZ/LMM engine with 108k on it
Found a LBZ/LMM engine with 108k on it