Originally Posted by hairyboxnoogle

Yea there is some pics floating around from Dave S where he had 3 bad ones in a row, the sleeves were falling. The third he pulled the heads before he even installed and they had slipped. Think of Jasper as an autozone rebuild. They fix whats broke and resell. Not necessarily a bad thing, but doesnt leave you with peace of mind

Originally Posted by Dave Sponaugle

Two years ago December I installed a Reviva reman turbo upgrade 7.3.
Blew three of them up, 2700, 9700 and 17,000 miles respectively.
They replaced them all under warranty and sent me a fourth engine.
I took it apart before I installed it and refused to install that motor since I found the same problems in an engine that had not even been unbolted from the shipping pallet yet.
After much haggling they bought me out.
I replaced that engine with a salvage yard engine with close to 200,000 miles on it by my guess, so that was engine number 4.
It lasted 5 months and something let the piston rotate in the cylinder, it had a six month warranty so I never got to open up the bottom end to see what broke. But they did replace the engine.
When I picked it up, it had been rebuilt recently looking at the amount of red silicone around all the gaskets. So much that I was figuring the oil pickup was full of silicone.
I decieded to rebuild it before it went in my truck.
After looking inside, the cam and lifters were new, but the rest had not been touched recently. It had at some point been bored 20 over, but that was some time ago looking at the cylinder wear.
So I bored it another 10 and went through everything.
Started by magnafluxing everything, it was all sound parts.
Replaced the valves, valve springs, rockers, pushrods, oil pump, bearings, pistons, rings, cam bearings, polished the crank, balanced the internals, milled the pistons down, installed head studs, new thermostat, replaced the turbo, new block heater, all the gaskets and seals, and painted everything with high temp ceramic paint. I added my 94 turbo IP and injectors and header wrap to every pipe I could figure out how to wrap and then soaked the wrap with ceramic paint.

So since this is the fifth engine in two and a half years, I hope I don't have to do this again for a while even though I am getting very good at swapping engines.

Now I have a 7 liter engine that has 19.5 to 1 compression that will be running over 20 PSI of boost when it gets broke in. That first 10 thousand miles is going to kill me, but I will manage to survive.

Learath, my turbo management computer is my very large right foot.(13 DD Mattahorn miners boots, steel toes, steel sole plates and metatarsel protection which is pronounce "very heavy right foot")

ram2miller, the turbo is painted with ceramic aluminum paint, 1200+ degree stuff.

Engine assembly is complete, now to insert it in the truck and get it fired up.
Saturday should be the day for smoke and smiles here in Nutter Fort.

Originally Posted by Red454sedgwick

I overhaul all my engines myself for the simple fact I know what is all in there. with a good machinist it's not that hard to do. If you can remove and install your engine, without having a bunch of extra parts. you can over haul it too.

Originally Posted by hturner12

I have worked for both auto zone. We thought the engines we junk, then one day we happen to sell two. We were surprised the difference in the two order numbers it was some where around 2000 which indicated that 2000 engines were sold between the two orders. Looking at our return rate vs number sold company wide it was real low. It like anything else there are bad ones that make it pass quality but how many are good