well my son is sitting in tucsons Bill Brecks dodge repair facility right now waiting to have a new engine shipped in and installed. Dropped the number 5 piston and is throwing oil out the blow by. But what the hey, it has 80,000 miles on it already. Probably too much stress from the new 3000 dollar injection pump we just put on it.
said to look at between 2-4 weeks to get it done. the aftermarket warrenty will pick up three days food lodging and rental car so guess i count that into my blessing side?
good news is that the new engine will carry the balance of the 100,000 mile original warrenty (meaning the new engine gets a 20,000 mile warrenty.) They said if I were buying it myslf according to a new Dodge directive it would carry a 36000 mile warrenty?
getting harder and harder to justify this dodge cummins partnership

 

but after a little thinking on it i guess it could be worse. if i had 99000 miles on it the new engine would only have a 1000 mile warranty !!
wonder what the warranty would be if i had had 100,001 miles on it?

 

If its the truck in your post, your lucky they warrantied it with the bombs.

 

Exactly what I was thinking.....

 

Sorry for your problems, but that is what I was thinking too.

 

Well it could be a lot worse, it could be a ford, I read on the ford site the other day a guy had a rod come through the side of his engine. A ford rep. came out and looked and saw where he had added a lift kit, an exhaust and I believe a different air filter. They voided his warranty and basically told him he was S.O.L.

 

update
just spoke to dealer and was told that the number 5 piston had swelled and that chrysler had ok'ed engine replacement.
bad news
i have a son--daughter gooseneck trailer in a hotel room and dealer says to expect two weeks to two months for completion !!

 

wow Herb, sorry to hear the problem, i have about had it with trying to get warranty from dealerships and the waiting ..

 

The engines come out of Michigan and it does take awile to get them delivered out here in the west. It also takes a bit to transfer parts and install. It's a suck job.

 

actually, the dealer tells me the engine is going to be built in LA