A little update on my truck...

[jdgleason]

What a day. Definitely found more damage than we expected

:whs:

Heads are not in good shape lol.

Looks like one valve failed and may have caused the melted piston issue... It sucks, but it is what it is!

Thanks again to Nathannial for all the help. I always learn a ton from him when I get to work with him and today was no different. For being as unmotivated as we both were, we had the cab up in a little less than an hour and a half. Stopped for lunch and dinner and still had the motor torn down and all the parts cleaned up and the shop mopped 3 times by 630... And we started at 930. Pretty happy with how smooth the tear down went.

The rest of the motor looked fantastic. No cracks in the pistons and cylinders look good. I did swell one of my up pipes and I assume it about popped with spray. Also found the passenger up pipe was leaking from the factory weld too. Head gaskets were totally fine still for those interested.

From here, we will see how everything goes. The plan is to get the motor to the machine shop early next week and get them started on it. I'm planning on some 20 over pistons from Jared at RCD cut and coated. It's getting a stage 1x cam from Tadd and finally doing push rods and valve springs. The 6.0 manifolds and up pipes will go on as well. It'll get gapless rings too. My main bearings and rod bearings have already been sent off to get coated.

Still up in the air on Carillos and Turbos right now. I have to sort out my finances this coming week and see where I'm at.

Oh and this ***ker here...

Tomorrow it's coming home so I can clean up wiring and stuff underneath it. Simplify some of this nitrous stuff and put in some ground and power bars to make wiring easier. Plus, I'm going to power wash all of it and clean up the engine bay.

Reality set in today that it's gonna be a few weeks before I can drive it, so that sucks. Lol

 

[Crack85]

Ah ****, bigger n better my friend

 

[ncollins64]

Ah ****, bigger n better my friend

That's exactly what I told him a few mins ago

 

[bigrpowr]

loving Benjamin's vagina face.

 

[Morgan@Midwest Diesel & Auto]

Anything I can help with let me know!

 

[jdgleason]

Anything I can help with let me know!

Thanks Morgan! I will let you know!

 

[Diesel23]

Looking good jd !! Sorry to hear but ,from the sound of it your gonna have a pretty stout setup !!! will be keeping an eye on this

 

[swinky]

What are you driving while it's down?

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[RSK]

What are you driving while it's down?

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he's got the race car.....don't worry it's forced induction still so his withdraws will be a little easier.

 

[HD F250]

Great progress for tear down. Now comes the hard part. A couple weeks? You must be dreaming my friend.....LOL

 

[Jethro]

Great progress for tear down. Now comes the hard part. A couple weeks? You must be dreaming my friend.....LOL

Yeah ask that big blue truck behind it about a few weeks.

 

[DSG03bolt]

Hope You Get It Back Soon. Long Thread To Read, I Had To Skip Around A Lot. Sucks The Motor Let Go, But Man Oh Man It Looks Like It Held Its Own Longer Than Most! Best Of Luck

 

[RSK]

Great progress for tear down. Now comes the hard part. A couple weeks? You must be dreaming my friend.....LOL

my buddies reman motor from ford didn't wasn't getting oil to one of the bearings for 40k and spun a rod bearing and was torn down sent to the machine shop and rebuilt with hd pistons, stage 1 cam, new crank, rods, bearings in about 2 or 3 weeks. so actually he's not too crazy to think that.

 

[powerstrokinfirefighter]

my buddies reman motor from ford didn't wasn't getting oil to one of the bearings for 40k and spun a rod bearing and was torn down sent to the machine shop and rebuilt with hd pistons, stage 1 cam, new crank, rods, bearings in about 2 or 3 weeks. so actually he's not too crazy to think that.

I don't think that's what he meant when he said a few weeks

 

[Crack85]

That's not what he meant when he said a few weeks

What did he mean?

 

[jdgleason]

Yeah ask that big blue truck behind it about a few weeks.

Let's keep this bullsh1t out of my thread, k? K thanks.

Anyway, funds will be the biggest delay in my build. If I had several grand at my disposal, I would have had a block at the machine shop last week, rushed pistons and rods, and had the motor done sometime this week or next.

 

[jdgleason]

I guess I should clarify that Elite as a shop won't be assembling my motor or doing any work. Nathannial is helping me outside of work.

 

[Jonnydime]

Do you think is was a valve defect or was there some piston contact? And what happened to the Max Power X's?

 

[NathannialD]

That valve did not hit.

 

[Dzchey21]

if only one uppipe is swollen then you need to put a balance pipe between the uppipes to equalize. basically you have higher back pressure on one side then the other