It is a 5.9 turbo cummins recon engine with 65,000 miles on it.

Before I took it apart the only code it showed was a PO216 so I'm guessing the VP44 is bad to.

History it had some blow by, then it started running rough and smoking bad, run it up to the dealer tested for codes only the 1 above, then I noticed it was really dripping oil from the engine area, added 2 gallons of oil ran it back home and then it was pouring oil everythign was covered on the drivers side oil was dripping from everything, found that I could see some compression gases & oil spitting out from around the #2 & 3 head gasket area. So I pulled it apart.

Head bolts were all tight, I could not see anything distinct on the head gasket (actually looked good to me) resulting in the oil & compression coming out the side. (the gasket was intact nothing obvious) and the #5 cylinder you could see some black looking wear on the side facing the #6 and the #5 piston had a section of the piston missing on the edge looked like it was worn away from compression going by the rings, It was about the size of half a penny and I could see the top ring fine. Any ideas on what could cause this?

 

Crappy recon. job maybe. I'm guessing who ever did it, only fixed what was broke. No more, no less.

 

that's my thoughts exactly, has anyone purchased an engine thru RHINO?

http://www.rhinoengines.com/cumminsi...pinengines.htm

I think the VP44 is bad also so I'm thining of just buying a complete drop in engine from Rhino.

 

I called them yesterday. Make sure you are sitting down when they quote the price. They only sell the long blocks, drop ins. Availability was also an issue.

 

looking at there website a drop in ISB was about $8,000. Is their quotes different from what the website says?

 

Yes. 2001 is apparently hard to come by per the guy I talked to.

 

what could cause this type of problem? Has anyone seen this before. Stock recon engine, no nitros, no mods, just a work truck. Bad recon job, running hot, although there was no oil in the coolant, and the radiator was full, from looking at how the piston was worn it had to be an ongoing problem, until it really got bad and the VP44 went bad.