question about head work
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question about head work
so i bought an 04 3 months ago everything seemed good all deltas were good had a small leak nothing serious. i had the egr deleted then i did the mistake of flooring it 1 morning at top end and the mech is telling me threw a valve. the truck was stumbling and running ruff with white smoke. looks like cycl. 7 took a hit and shows 10 psi of compression. the injector are in working order and so are the rockers. the bill is 3500 all in for new gaskets and oil cooler head work, arp studs and labor. is that a good price or is he raping me. im new to diesels so your help is greatly appreciated.
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its a well know diesel shop especially for performance. the name is the diesel shop miami tdsmiami.com they have a 6.6 duramax powered colorado. he proven that he is woring with me by cutting 6 hr of labor to help me out and his shop has alot of work as i can see. ive done my research on the shop before i went to him.
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That is a stellar deal as Michael said, you can check out the 6.0L forums to see what some of those guys pay and you'll see you're coming out a winner
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Seems real steep for your average Head Job......
But since he's doing all the extras it seems like a great price!
But since he's doing all the extras it seems like a great price!
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Sounds like a great price.
I will tell you up front, he's full of **** on the valve. When a valve gets thrown catastrophic engine failure follows immediately afterwards. I've seen two occasions where it didn't kill the engine, both of which the vehicles were at idle and the valve heads had popped off the stems and were bouncing on top of the piston. It wrecked the pistons and the chambers needed reworking, but that was it. Every other time - kaboom.
I will tell you up front, he's full of **** on the valve. When a valve gets thrown catastrophic engine failure follows immediately afterwards. I've seen two occasions where it didn't kill the engine, both of which the vehicles were at idle and the valve heads had popped off the stems and were bouncing on top of the piston. It wrecked the pistons and the chambers needed reworking, but that was it. Every other time - kaboom.
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