Who makes aftermarket pistons
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From: Asheville, NC
I have a question. I have seen 3 3rd gens with burnt pistons and evey time it was the #5 cylinder.Makes me wonder whats going on? The only thing that makes any sense to me is the stock exhaust manifold looks to be designed in a way that the #5 and #4 gases are opposing each other to get out the exhaust pipe. Anyone else noticing this?
Yes. This is a bad design and will cause #5 to burn. I've heard of stock trucks even burning #5 because of this. An ATS manifold is a must on a 3rd gen.
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From: Peculiar MO
Either way you go his warranty will be gone. I doubt the rep. will be able to find anything edge wise, may be able to find smarty program but not likely, if they do they will void the powertrain warranty. If he pulls the vehicle from their facility to work on it himself they will make a note in their computer system vehicle pulled from dealership with motor problems so that the next time it comes in for warranty work he will get hassled like nobodies business and they will refuse to work on it unless another star approved dealer has worked on it and evidence of that would be in stars system. I would let them try and find something its going to be a hit or miss type of deal just cross your fingers and hope for the best. Just deny deny deny.
John, thanks for the information, as soon as we have a look inside and see what is wrong with the engine to see what we need. I'll give them a call.
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From: Peculiar MO
I have heard of alot of people having the same problem, Im gona have to consider in buying one for myself and convince my budy to buy one too.
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The dealer was working with us. They knew we had the programers on thier. They put the truck together and let us know they could not do it, they have never done it before and a crhysler tech would have to come down and look at it. So in doing so we could take it to another shop that has done it and get it warrentied.
John, thanks for the information, as soon as we have a look inside and see what is wrong with the engine to see what we need. I'll give them a call.
John, thanks for the information, as soon as we have a look inside and see what is wrong with the engine to see what we need. I'll give them a call.
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No problem buddy! Let us know how your engine looks inside and all.
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Well scheid has the rights to aries pistons in the 5.9 size i was told thier name is stamped in them. Ross pistons also make them and very nice to deal with and easy to get along with. There is a machine shop in south st.louis "Phase one" that can do the machine work and they deal with ross. good luck need any help or advice p.m. me or blown smoke2
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From: terrell,texas
I agree they shouldnt see the edge box, just be a good test and see how the smarty does under these conditions, take it in and hope for the best. If not then plan on fixing it your way.
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From: Peculiar MO
Well we go to disassemble the engine tonight. Removed the head and everything looked good. Problem ended up being in cyl number one dealer wasnt thinking right, they did put a new injector in cyl number one. Pulled oil pan down and pushed piston number one out, found the top ring broken and inbetween the center and oil ring, parts of the piston was broke. Inspected the cylinder walls and may have found a crack in the cyl. We're are gona see what size pistons we can possible get to bore to that size to see if the crack goes away, or we may have to go with a new short block.
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From: Peculiar MO
I called a local equipment company that does cummins engines, he quoted us the sleeve job for $200 plus the sleeve and cleaning the engine. Now all we need is a piston. I think this is the rout we are going to take to get the truck back on the road. We'll have to wait and see once we start boaring the block. Thanks for all the help again guys.
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