Thread: having a little no fun

kingDavid,,, since your the expert,,,, If I were looking too buy a diesel truck and wanted something easy to work on, as well as dependable,, which truck motor combination would you buy? I heard the Older dodge 12 Valle motors were the ones to buy,,, I know they don't have the power nor the technology, or probably the fuel milage, but they were dependable and easy to work on.,,, what would you buy if you liked working on your own? thanks from tinkerer one to another,,,

Originally Posted by Takeum

kingDavid,,, since your the expert,,,, If I were looking too buy a diesel truck and wanted something easy to work on, as well as dependable,, which truck motor combination would you buy? I heard the Older dodge 12 Valle motors were the ones to buy,,, I know they don't have the power nor the technology, or probably the fuel milage, but they were dependable and easy to work on.,,, what would you buy if you liked working on your own? thanks from tinkerer one to another,,,

Well I wouldn't buy a dodge (but that's just me) the old style 7.3 (pre 99 I think) are easy to work on. Post 99 7.3 are good and not too bad but you'll be hard pressed to find one that is in decent shape, not have 500K on it and not overly expensive. Honestly though if I were to buy another it would probably be the 6.0 or if I were rich a 6.7. The 6.7 is proving to be a really reliable motor. The 6.0 is a great motor and the particular issues that are common are easy to diagnose and fix--it's just the getting too since that freaking thing is stuffed into the engine bay. And once they are fixed and you are religious with the maint. you will probably never have any problems. I know many guys that have over 300K on their 6.0s and a few with 800K. That's not too shabby.

Originally Posted by Takeum

kingDavid,,, since your the expert,,,, If I were looking too buy a diesel truck and wanted something easy to work on, as well as dependable,, which truck motor combination would you buy? I heard the Older dodge 12 Valle motors were the ones to buy,,, I know they don't have the power nor the technology, or probably the fuel milage, but they were dependable and easy to work on.,,, what would you buy if you liked working on your own? thanks from tinkerer one to another,,,

Pre EGR cummins are good motors. Get the best fuel milage of the dodges and proper maintaince almost indestructible. They have plenty enough power for the average user lack of technology on them is a plus. Less things to go wrong. Ran plenty of those B models in Straight trucks up to 33,000 gvw with very few problems out to 3/400,000 miles. Pretty simple to work on.

Originally Posted by KDAVID1

Yup. I wish I had the bones to do everything that might come up later now because I DO NOT want to go in again but I will at some point. I haven't been this sore in a long time.

I don't understand why unless the engine was down, you didn't buy your parts a few at a time until you had everything you needed then do it all at once. But at least your gaining valuable experience for when it does come unwound.

Them young'uns don't use their head [at least the one on their shoulders] they are too much in a hurry

I've had Ford and Dodge diesels, the older Ford 7.3's are good the rest are junk.
I am in a 2004 Dodge 2500 with a Cummins now and will continue in it until it won't roll any longer. Don't like any of the newer ones because of all the electronics.

Originally Posted by cray

I don't understand why unless the engine was down, you didn't buy your parts a few at a time until you had everything you needed then do it all at once. But at least your gaining valuable experience for when it does come unwound.

True on all accounts. Main thing is I had a suspicion the egr cooler was bad (having some puke) so I had to get it out before it blew and put coolant in the cylinders and popped a head or hydrolocked. After today I feel much better about all of it.

Ok so who puked? You or the engine