The farm I'm working harvest for this summer has a 1995 Dodge Ram 3500 with the Cummins Turbo Diesel engine. They thing it lost a piston while working really hard fighting a fire (climbing steep hills and such). It blows a LOT of oil out the breather system. It has the 5 speed tranny, Quad cab, 4X4.

I'm assuming this truck has the 5.9l Cummins engine. The body is straight, but the undercarriage has a lot of miles on it. Knowing the engine has significant problems, should I keep my offer down to a couple thousand dollars? I'm not really familiar with the value on Dodge trucks, especially sick ones.

 

a couple 1000??....If you do all the r and r tear dwn and rebolt.....you will spend a ez 4000 bucks...anything less will be a miracle......there will be peo here that will tell you less,just count on it being more

 

He's talking about offering a couple of thousand for the truck......not rebuild costs for the engine.