Hi guys. I just bought a 98 12 valve quad cab long bed 5 speed. Front end has just been rebuilt, new clutch, nice truck. The bad, truck had a differant fuel plate, bigger inectors and turbo and the owner said it hung an injector and burned a hole in #6 piston. Do you think $1500 is to much and how much do you think it would cost to fix the engine?

 

id buy it. parts are worth that alone. even if you use it to put the nv4500 and p pump your other truck.

 

buy it!! love to have that fall in my lap. motor sounds fishy, if it were me i would find a decent milage bone stock motor drop it in and do your own mods. sell parts that are good off of old motor and enjoy your cheap truck.

 

Buy it, trans will sell for 1K by itself, 215 pump is close to a grand.......

If you don't at least post up where the truck is.

 

You don't have it bought and home yet ????????????????
I can buy it and haul it if you don't want it

 

It will be home Friday. Let the games begin.

 

Got her home Saturday. Turbo was laying in the bed and the AFC was laying on top the pump and the fuel plate was gone. I plugged the oil feed line to the turbo, bolted down the AFC, changed the fuel filter and lit her up. I had white smoke out of the back half of the exhaust manifold, blowing compression into the crankcase and cylinder #6 is dead. How much does it normally cost to bring them back to life. It does carry 50 psi oil pressure and it doesn't have any bad noises just a miss.

 

How many miles on her?

I would almost consider putting a Piston in 6 and running it.

 

I was told 270,000 when I picked it up but after hooking up the batteries it showed 256,000.

 

I would pull the head and if the cylinder walls were still good, I would just drop the pan and Piston 6 and new rod bearings and rings while you are there.

Make sure you get the correct grade piston, trying to remember the exact markings, but each set is marked as to the compression ht.

Sounds like you got the dream deal...........

 

Got the engine out Saturday. Blown headgasket, #6 piston burned up, cylinder wall scored, #6 rod bearing spun laying in pan, KDP in pan. It looks like the valves touched the pistion on #6 due to the rod bearing being gone. Im looking at opinions on weather to visit the machine shop, junk it, or find another engine to drop in.

 

sounds bad, i still going with a different motor. hope whatever you choose works out, keep us up to date.

 

I now have the engine completely apart. Block was made in the USA, crank was made in Brazil, and the rods were made in England. The machine shop says the crank will turn and the block will bore. I have two questions how much differance is there in the weight of the pistons between a standard and oversize and do I need a rod made in England or will any 94 and up rod work. The other cylinders look good so I was thinking about punching the bad hole, ringing the rest, turning the crank and throwing bearings in it and doing a valve job.

 

Either bore them all or sleeve the bad one................ You don't want 1 odd man out.

Rods should be OK from wherever. The pistons are graded as to compression Ht....

 

The engine tag is not on the front cover because they didn't move it after the KDP and front cover replacement. Cummins will not help with parts without the numbers and the dodge dealer says they can't tell me what the engine numbers are supposed to be and I don't whant to deal with dodge. Does anyone have any numbers off another 98 12v 5spd engine that would work. Thanks in advance.