Stop in for a cup of coffee
gonna keep the old one and change headgasket/figure out what happened? might be a cheap spare...
Absolutely! So I’ve hatched a very diabolical plan here.
One: buying this engine saves me well over 80k vs buying a new truck. once running again, I’ll have the truck I need to haul home a new project or two.
But while I’m saving for that, the original Cummins is going down to bare block, gonna send everything in to the local machine shop I trust, have it all magnaflux and sonic checked, decked etc. I’m gonna have it fire-ringed and upgrade the injectors , bigger turbo, (all of which I still have laying around so no new expense) nothing crazy, boost the horsepower to around 400–450 rear wheel while maintaining perfect tow capability like I did with my old black Cummins. That’ll go back in, replacement engine out
Then I’m buying that ramcharger I want so bad from the junkyard, stuffing the now pulled replacement engine into it.
Hehe