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well i finally got my motor back and i started tearing into it and well i spun a bearing intresting considering it only has 240,000 miles and really thats not acurate its more ike 210,000 but anyways i found this place diesel direct down in flordia i gona get a whole drop in with turbo and everything for 4250$ with one year unlimited mile warentee soo im hoping i wont have no more isseus with anything haha...... but why would myt bearing spin in my motor any ideas??
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I'm needing to swap out my motor sometime (like 40k miles ago) I was going to go with promar out of NJ.
$3k for a longblock, sleeved and all. Free shipping is a bonus too.
maybe call them up and see whatcha think, they have a page too.
$3k for a longblock, sleeved and all. Free shipping is a bonus too.
maybe call them up and see whatcha think, they have a page too.
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Long use and many miles will eventually wear most bearings, if you go too far then they will turn. If you have a good strong engine with lots of life left, I would just replace the crank and bearings. Replacing the oil cooler might be a good thing too.......
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lol noo everything is shot the turbo the injecter pump the injecters yeah the rings might of been fine and stuff but its just aint worth the hassel when i could get it back together and find out ohh look it burns coolant ya know? i i mean if everything else wasnt shot i prolly would just buy a crank and bearings?
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Originally Posted by DeepRoots
I'm needing to swap out my motor sometime (like 40k miles ago) I was going to go with promar out of NJ.
$3k for a longblock, sleeved and all. Free shipping is a bonus too.....
$3k for a longblock, sleeved and all. Free shipping is a bonus too.....
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Originally Posted by PLC7.3
Long use and many miles will eventually wear most bearings, if you go too far then they will turn. If you have a good strong engine with lots of life left, I would just replace the crank and bearings. Replacing the oil cooler might be a good thing too.......
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if you go to ebay and type in 7.3 idi it will show up thers another name they go buy for the motors and i forgot what he told me well my motor was 425 psi in all the cyinders but one it just decided to spin a bearing and mine had 237000 on the odo but i know it had less cuz my speedo is off soo im guessin around 220 the motor had u hope u dont have to spend 5 grand... i cant even afford it thank god for parents to help out..