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It's a good time to do it. With an OE motor, I'm sure you'll not find the surprises I did.
I feel for you.
What's disappointing on my end...when I install the new gaskets, they'll be the 3rd set in 67,800 miles. During the life of this truck/engine, I can count the number of times I did a WOT run from 15 mph to 75 mph on 2 hands. I've never towed more than 6,500 pounds, and the pyro has never topped 1200 degrees. This truck has been under-stressed for the most part.
I'm hoping this last hurrah of a rebuild will last me until someone says "Dave, it's time to hand your license over. You're too old to drive."
What's disappointing on my end...when I install the new gaskets, they'll be the 3rd set in 67,800 miles. During the life of this truck/engine, I can count the number of times I did a WOT run from 15 mph to 75 mph on 2 hands. I've never towed more than 6,500 pounds, and the pyro has never topped 1200 degrees. This truck has been under-stressed for the most part.
I'm hoping this last hurrah of a rebuild will last me until someone says "Dave, it's time to hand your license over. You're too old to drive."
***** footing it in my opinion & experience is worse than working it hard. These engines, like every other diesel, need to work hard and come up to temperature. I see far less issues with trucks that are run hard and long hours compared to a cream puff garaged beauty queen with low miles.
And I'm not blaming you. So many owners that heard horror stories about these engines just about parked it or drove it with an egg under their foot to avoid issues but really created more problems from low battery starts, long idle times, incomplete warm ups and low use. FICM issues, Alternators failing, EGR valves clogged, stuck Unison rings, weeping o-rings & seals are common on hangar queens with low miles and low use.
So get out there and Exercise That Turbo!
***** footing it in my opinion & experience is worse than working it hard. These engines, like every other diesel, need to work hard and come up to temperature. I see far less issues with trucks that are run hard and long hours compared to a cream puff garaged beauty queen with low miles.
And I'm not blaming you. So many owners that heard horror stories about these engines just about parked it or drove it with an egg under their foot to avoid issues but really created more problems from low battery starts, long idle times, incomplete warm ups and low use. FICM issues, Alternators failing, EGR valves clogged, stuck Unison rings, weeping o-rings & seals are common on hangar queens with low miles and low use.
So get out there and Exercise That Turbo!
For the sake of repeating myself, personal experience and understanding of diesels has led me to believe this and do so hardcore. I'd MUCH rather buy a well maintained, higher mileage, and harder worked diesel than a low mileage "creampuff" (insert puking here). The 7.3 and the 6.0 do NOT like to sit.
Almost 18 mo sense I totaled the other truck and I am still working out the snot that this newer truck collected from being parked for so long and not even driven. If I have to do
a short trip I go the long way around so that I at least get up to 192º. I have never really had much of an issue that I did not cause myself. Yes I had a cap blow on the power boar
in the FICM and I had the transmission break the sun gear off the coast clutch. I like my truck and I like to drive it and not be a wimp with the throttle. I run light tuning and do my
maintenance along with feeding it good fluids.
Diesel or gas, they like to be run hard. Hire cars tend to be good buys because the mechanics have been run in properly.
With the truck over here it's easy to stretch the motor, pulling away from the lights frightens most wannabes trying to overtake 😈
Eliminating rust and corrosion has been time-consuming. These exhaust manifolds required 4 applications of Eastwood Rust Remover gel, and then 2 hours of stainless steel grit blasting.
The oil pan was a bit nasty.
I bought some steel, did some cutting and had a friend weld the pieces. Now the engine is level and ready for stoning.
Nice support stands. Do high temp paints hold up to the heat of diesel exhaust manifolds? Can't stand the rust on mine.
Amen on the rust. Heck, after media blasting I packed the first manifold in a plastic bag, inside my house overnight. The next morning it had flash rusted over about 60% of the surface area. I blasted it again.
Yesterday I used these products; primer, paint and satin clear. I still have to oven cure as is listed in the instructions. Check back with me in a year, LOL. https://www.vhtpaint.com/high-heat/v...eproof-coating
Amen on the rust. Heck, after media blasting I packed the first manifold in a plastic bag, inside my house overnight. The next morning it had flash rusted over about 60% of the surface area. I blasted it again.
Yesterday I used these products; primer, paint and satin clear. I still have to oven cure as is listed in the instructions. Check back with me in a year, LOL. https://www.vhtpaint.com/high-heat/v...eproof-coating
I tried that paint last year on my CAC tubes and it sucked. Sandblasted, primed, painted, satin clear coat and it would scratch off with a fingernail a week later. Had them powder coated after that waste of money.
