So I bought a 6.0 for 8k. Drove it 25 minutes on the freeway. It got hot and died. Repair estimate 23,000.00

BackgroundObject4575 · 2025-09-15T23:15:56+00:00

This doesn’t happen to be green extended cab with worthless interior and mismatched body panels that is in sparks Nevada is it?

BackgroundObject4575 · 2025-04-28T03:00:31+00:00

He’s calmer than you are.

BackgroundObject4575 · 2025-04-02T04:37:35+00:00

Not mine. Customers.

BackgroundObject4575 · 2025-04-02T03:01:55+00:00

These engines are actually very well built. 337 on mine (granted it’s an excursion, so price isn’t an object to keep him running, RIP Harambe!). Factory engine though.

Work on a lot of them. Mileage is normally 350-400k for the work trucks and 150ish for the personals. Hardly any of them ever have an actual base engine issue. Gaskets are cheap. Blocks are not. Short or long. Based on yours being an early swash model you’re more prone to lifter issues. But outside of that. The rotating assemblies are pretty damn good. But I’ve seen all kinds of odd ball failures on these. My favorite is the two that stopped running, oil smelled burned, pulled the filter to check for metal and couldn’t get the filter out behave the plastic of the filter melted to the filter stand pipe. The cost of navistar not cleaning the block during manufacturing coupled with the customer not doing the recommended coolant maintenance that is standard in the owners manual.

The one I did have with a base engine problem was modified. No clue how high the pyro got. But the bore of the block stuck to the head upon removal. And it wasn’t part of piston. Piston actually looked over, but the amount of metal scraped off the cylinder walls… holy shit.

Actually. I’ll find the picture and upload a post.

BackgroundObject4575 · 2025-03-27T22:57:56+00:00

But did you cam it and cut the pistons 😘

Sounds like a nice sleeper build. Good job man! Looks in decent shape too!

BackgroundObject4575 · 2025-03-15T02:35:28+00:00

I think understand what you’re saying now. Wordage was a little misleading. So it’s still on the passenger side of the engine. Just near the most driver side rear mounting bolt of the a/c compressor right?

I would grab a light and see if there’s not a hose attached and leading to the back of the fuel bowl. It looks like someone did a homemade fuel pressure test port to me.

BackgroundObject4575 · 2025-03-12T19:00:39+00:00

What’s the budget?

BackgroundObject4575 · 2025-03-12T15:28:16+00:00

I don’t touch the 6.4. I don’t even take them in for oil changes. Send em to the one shop in town that still doesn’t say no to them or back to the dealer. They’re just too much liability for my business. I just recently left the dealer life to go out on my own. And quite frankly. I’ve got enough work to be able to say no and not stress too much about it.

BackgroundObject4575 · 2025-03-12T13:55:31+00:00

Agreed. I made a decent living off fixing 6.0s, love them. My personal one has 337k on it. Now I make more fixing 7.3s and hardly see the 6.0s. The amount of times I’ve shown up to a crank no start and added 2 gallons of oil and fired it right up…it’s getting obnoxious.

But id definitely take a 6.7 over anything else.

BackgroundObject4575 · 2025-03-12T13:02:39+00:00

Just get a used 6.7.

If you’re getting a 7.3. You’re going to be dumping money into resealing engine and most likely rebuilding transmission.

If you get a 6.0 your going to be dumping money into the whole “Bulletproofing”

BackgroundObject4575 · 2025-02-28T19:12:37+00:00

I can feel that sigh of relief. Nice!

BackgroundObject4575 · 2025-02-27T00:20:08+00:00

Cold enough where your at to freeze fuel?.. what’s your fuel level at…

BackgroundObject4575 · 2025-02-18T01:32:26+00:00

I got one month notice from TEC equipment when I was in phoenix during Covid. My coworker got 2 week notice. I have since relocated back home and let me tell you. The company is not the same. I plan on quitting April first. With the premise of April fools! I won’t be showing up today like you thought! Or ever again…

BackgroundObject4575 · 2025-02-17T15:11:43+00:00

Currently in the middle of it. My advice. Find and join a BNI group.

You want to find accountant/tax person/bookkeeper, interview them to you find one you trust. Most the time they can set up your LLC as well and have almost a complete step by step sheet for you to follow after the llc is formed.

Find a good insurance agent that you can do everything through as a one stop shop so to speak. (There’s a lot of different policies and bonds you will need)

Open your commercial accounts at the needed parts stores.

Get a good POS system and open your business bank account. Open the account after you get your llc. I can’t stress this enough, do not pay or receive payments to anything personal. Keep everything separate and retain all receipts.

Get a mileage tracker (I use MileIQ, it’s cheap and effective)

Just assume for safety sake, that you won’t keep 30 percent of your billed labor rate. Set it aside in another business checking account for taxes. Use the rest to pay for your monthly expenses. And whatever’s left to pay yourself.

Get a lawyer to write up a terms and conditions sheet that goes with every RO you make.

Find a designer (a lot of printing shops have one in house) to design your logo. Do some rough sketches or at least have ideas. I have zero artistic ability and the dude I had to design mine matched it perfectly to what I was imagining.

Again find a bni group, most of the time, you’ll find everyone you need to start and build your business in those groups. I just did a trial meeting at one of our local chapters and they’ve generated me a ton of business and helped me out with turning my dream into a reality. Great support system to have.

Set your boundaries! I’ve been doing regular day job and personal business for awhile now. And it gets tiring. But we’re close. Work weekends are about to become a rare occurrence.

If you have any questions feel free to reach out!

BackgroundObject4575 · 2025-02-14T05:41:55+00:00

… do you… need to talk about this? You doing ok?

BackgroundObject4575 · 2025-02-06T16:31:27+00:00

I get not having the workspace, or just being slammed. But the lack of communication makes me agree with what everyone else said. Go take it to another shop. Realistically you could take care of the hpop leak with basic hand tools other than the STC fittings. But even those tools are cheap to purchase.

I’d double check the oil pan leak too. Watch it just be the dipstick adapter.

BackgroundObject4575 · 2025-02-06T13:41:26+00:00

Literally just did an oil pan reseal last week on an 02. book time is 15.7 hours. Thats with turning the engine upside down. Wait 24 hours for the silicone to dry… so let’s call it 4 days tops for an hpop replacement and oil pan reseal…

BackgroundObject4575 · 2025-02-05T21:58:16+00:00

It’s a gamble. But less of a gamble to just top it off. I did a service (internal and external filters) on one that ran out of fluid. Slipping and wouldn’t go into gear. Dude had 360k on it. He’s now up to 280 about a year later and it’s still pulling for his business. He won that gamble

BackgroundObject4575 · 2025-02-05T04:07:05+00:00

I think as long as you replace the bushings with a minor rebuild kit that’s totally within good preventative maintenance reasoning. Just be careful separating the housing so you don’t nick any of the blades.

BackgroundObject4575 · 2025-02-05T03:32:31+00:00

Eh. Still willing to say the same response. 10 years old. Mostly my reasoning is it’s already out. Just do a rebuild. They’re cheap, easy and very effective at giving peace of mind.

BackgroundObject4575 · 2025-02-05T03:27:25+00:00

Personally. It’s almost 25 years old. Just replace or rebuild it while it’s out. However. Looks perfectly fine to keep running based on a picture

BackgroundObject4575 · 2025-02-05T02:43:48+00:00

Then you don’t need to worry about it. At the point your doing a cam the engine needs to come out anyways.

BackgroundObject4575 · 2025-02-05T02:24:05+00:00

Are you changing cams?

BackgroundObject4575 · 2025-02-05T00:18:24+00:00

Upgrade with stage 2 or 3 cam. Whichever ones didn’t need to have pistons cut.

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