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2001 excursion part 2: extra cylinders, extra features
Well, about 13 months after selling my 01 XLT 5.4, i scooped up an 01 LTD 6.8. Has some cosmetic issues and some electrical faults, but nothing i can't handle.
Almost no rust, relatively speaking. Definitely not beyond salvation
Changed the spark plugs on it (all 10 with no major issues, I'll take what i can get) and popped a compression tester on there while I had it open...
Entire left bank read 90psi
Front 3 on the right bank read 140 psi
Back one on right bank read 30 psi
Didnt bother getting a reading on the second from the back.
All 9 cylinders that I checked read a solid 170 with a bit of oil dripped in on top to seal the rings, so at least i know whats going on with the engine - just sucks 😆
any reason I can't put an EGR equipped engine into a non-EGR truck? I assume I'd have to remove the EGR provisions from the engine, but there's not some hidden nonsense I don't know about?
Is there any market value in a 200k mile v10 that needs a ring job? the valves held good compression, so maybe the heads are worth something?
otherwise, I'm stripping it down and scrapping it.
Why not re-ring the engine that's in there? You know it fits and everything hooks up correctly.
If the engine is running and a huge cloud of oil smoke isn't following the truck around everywhere , then the worst case scenario would be a slight overbore and new pistons (best case would be a giggle ball hone and new rings).
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Why not re-ring the engine that's in there? You know it fits and everything hooks up correctly.
If the engine is running and a huge cloud of oil smoke isn't following the truck around everywhere , then the worst case scenario would be a slight overbore and new pistons (best case would be a giggle ball hone and new rings).
Honestly, I value my own time more than that, and there just isn't a solid business case for me.
I can get a Used v10 for $1-2K, and doing a piston re-ring will cost about $500 in parts alone, assuming I don't need to over-bore the engine, and then we're looking at another $200 in oversize pistons, and gets into the territory of "might as well do a full rebuild on the heads too, which pretty soon balloons into $2000 of parts and labor, which is nice to have a completely rebuilt engine, but I would rather just stuff a good used engine in.
If I'm going to be pulling an engine out and putting one in, I'd rather just put in a good used engine than tear down the current one and re-ring it, or take the risk of tearing it down only to find that it needs machine work, etc.
And there is a pretty good cloud of smoke following it around, so there's a good likelihood of needing a full rebuild with overbored cylinders.
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