HUGE BUMMER Herb.

Your drivers do know what an EGT gauge is for, don't they?

 

yes, my son is the only other person who drives our trucks and he is dilligent about watching the gauges and takes excellent care of the vehicles.
Any way to check injecter pump for defect ?

 

I'm curious how the pistons can get hot enough to melt without showing high EGTs,....

Maybe the plastic oil jets in the block that shoot oil under the pistons to cool them came loose on yet another engine?

 

YES...i should have been more clear....Newer the better ment up to '02 (ISB).......My bad......

 

does anyone know? Could an injector pump be defective and cause to much fuel to be pushed into the cylinders?

 

If that were the case, I'd think you'd see black smoke and high EGTs.

Rusty

 

that makes sense. i had no black smoke and no hight wgt's. Yet cummins thinks it happened because it was getting too much fuel ?
Scored cylinder walls and melting nu 1 piston = too much fuel ?

 

Is it possible your pyro is not reading correctly? A diesel pump shop should be able to put the pump on the stand and make sure it delivers the correct amount of fuel.

 

300 at idle
600 emty
900 towing
1200 towing heavy up steep grades

Breakdown from cummins

7980 reman engine
2400 install
600 taxes

 

$2400 labor?????????????? HUM........are they rebuilding it in house?

 

I am guessing they charge close to 100$ an hour , or more , and 24 hrs is not that long to pull one engine and put another one in , and get it running.

 

yeah.....i guess your right.........MAN...im glad i can turn my own wrench when i see that........but that is a moot point.......I hope it turns out well.....let us know if we can feed any info to ya......

 

This is the kind of thing that scares me to death. Is it possible to have 1 piston running at 1500* and the others running at 800* and it averages out to say 975* so you never know?

 

I have located these three engines. how can i tell witch one would work in my 01. two of them are for standard transmissions, my 01 is an automatic. Can i take the flexplate off my bad engine and bolt to one of these ?


235 H.P. @ 2900 RPM - 5.9 LITER
TURBOCHARGER - ECM - MANIFOLDS
STARTER: 12 VOLT - FLYWHEEL HOUSING
FLYWHEEL STANDARD SHIFT
CPL 8413 or 8412
BUILD DATE JULY 2003

250 H.P. @ 2900 RPM - 5.9 LITER
TURBOCHARGER - ECM - MANIFOLDS
STARTER: 12 VOLT - FLYWHEEL HOUSING
FLYWHEEL
BUILD DATE JULY 2003
CPL8226

305 H.P. @ 2900 RPM
5.9 LITER
TURBOCHARGER
ECM - MANIFOLDS
SAMPLE SERIAL 57070038
STARTER: 12 VOLT
FLYWHEEL HOUSING
FLEXPLATE
BUILD DATE JULY 2003
CPL 8213

 

Those are all 03 and newer common rail engines. Definitely not a direct bolt-in, it would be quite a project to make your truck into a common-rail.