While pulling a load of pipe and a filter seperator thru Houston yesterday on my way back to the house BBD rolled 400,000 miles.

I have a small power steering leak I have to deal with but thats it.

The truck has 374,000 bombed miles. the 47re is all original except for the tc, vb, and 1 second gear band. Not bad huh for all thoses towing miles.


Bombing doesnt shorten the life of the engine, it just helps you get there faster. :D

Great to hear. Should post this in the 6.0 forum over on the dark side.

Congratulations.:D
Now that it's completely "broken-in", the fun can start......[laugh]

When are you going to change the oil?:rolleyes:

Dang. That's a lot of miles. And I thought I put alot of miles on mine (52K in 2 years).[laugh]

Congrats:D

Congrats Joe, as I am sure you know, mine did not make the big miles.

Wow that is great to hear.
I am curious,do you know what your engine block number is?

Way to go good care,tlc and a little luck will get you through. I hope someday to make the same post.

Originally posted by Dave65
Wow that is great to hear.
I am curious,do you know what your engine block number is?

Im curious too - #53 block??

Are you gonna try for a million?

Any VP-44's replaced in 400k?

Dave

Originally posted by CoastalDav
Any VP-44's replaced in 400k?

Dave

Id like to know that one too:D

see: http://www.dieseltruckresource.com/dev/showthread.php?s=&threadid=37222


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Ill be at 400,000 in a couple of weeks. Only replaced the vp44 once. Thats the only real "engine" part so far. She'll be 4 years old in March.


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2001 Dodge QC 3500 Cummins 24V black - loaded w/ leather
BD PnP, 275 injectors
DTT mods in tranny
Pillar gauges
Straight exhaust
K&N
RCI 2950DX w/ 400 watt kicker Wilson 5000 ant.
75 gallon aux tank
Custom g/n hitch
36 ft Legend and 16 ft Legend goose necks
400,211 miles and counting
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1 vp44 at 181,000
1 exhaust manifold
1 APPS
1 CPS
1 Alternator
1 hydro boost
1 ps pump
2 sets batteries
3 lift pumps
2 ac clutchs

Thats the only things under the hood.

Where is the engine block number and ill look in the morning.


You know thats around 880 quarts of oil and +- 28,571 gallons of diesel. At $1.39 a gallon thats $39,713 in fuel. Mercy, no wonder its so hard to make a profit now a days.

later.

All yer profits going into your oil changes. Stretch it out to 15k..:p j/k

What's a VP44?

Originally posted by BigBlackDodge
1 vp44 at 181,000
1 exhaust manifold
1 APPS
1 CPS
1 Alternator
1 hydro boost
1 ps pump
2 sets batteries
3 lift pumps
2 ac clutchs

Thats the only things under the hood.

Where is the engine block number and ill look in the morning.


You know thats around 880 quarts of oil and +- 28,571 gallons of diesel. At $1.39 a gallon thats $39,713 in fuel. Mercy, no wonder its so hard to make a profit now a days.

later.

Thanks,that is impressive:D

VP 44 is the fuel pump;)

VP is the Injection pump.;)

Originally posted by Shovelhead
VP is the Injection pump.;)


Ahhh,yeah I knew that[laugh]

Originally posted by BigBlackDodge
1 vp44 at 181,000
1 exhaust manifold
1 APPS
1 CPS
1 Alternator
1 hydro boost
1 ps pump
2 sets batteries
3 lift pumps
2 ac clutchs

Thats the only things under the hood.

Where is the engine block number and ill look in the morning.


You know thats around 880 quarts of oil and +- 28,571 gallons of diesel. At $1.39 a gallon thats $39,713 in fuel. Mercy, no wonder its so hard to make a profit now a days.

later.

The block # is on the side of the block towards the front,mine is in BIG numbers like 53.

At 400,000 I doubt that Joe cares what casting number it has, it's a good one anyway.

Originally posted by Haulin_in_Dixie
At 400,000 I doubt that Joe cares what casting number it has, it's a good one anyway.

Im sure he don't,but I was curious.

QUOTE]Originally posted by Dave65
Wow that is great to hear.
I am curious,do you know what your engine block number is? [/QUOTE]



Where is the engine block number located ???

It is on the side of the block,towards the front,mine says 53 in big numbers,you can see it from laying on the ground and i think you can see it from the top on the passenger side.
I think it is under the injector pump on ther drivers side also.

Can someone supply pictures or a diagram of where to find this number? I did the KDP this weekend and could not find that number?!?!