If you have a truck that you like I think that you could be better off by rebuilding it rather than trading for a truck that you don't know. If your truck is paid off and is in good shape it makes sense to rebuild it rather than going out and having payments. A rebuild could give you another million or more miles from that truck. :thumbsup:

 

I'm picking the truck up today. It's been a long wait but it's done. There were a lot of little things that were addressed as well in the rebuild. Back to work tomorrow.

This out of work thing wouldn't be a bad gig if it wasn't for lack of income. Got a lot done done around the house.

 

I went & looked at my truck. it is all apart. although I am having an inframe done reguardless, I think the news I received was good news, considering age & mileage. the problem, coolant getting into the oil. the cause. the valve guides were so worn , causing the valves to hit the piston sleeve seal & piston sleeve, making slight gouges in the sleeve seals. this happened on 2 piston sleeves. the mechanic said the worn valve guides were caused by high mileage, but in larger part to the ulsd fuel wich had the lubrication taken out. he aslo said that whatever I have been doing to the truck keep doing it, cause at aproaching 1.4 mil miles he rarely see's internal part's with so little wear as mine. piston liners, no pitting at all, cam in great shape. all gear train componants look great, as the bull gear(normally) in high mileage detroits, break or wear significantly with the mileage I have. though not in my case. he mentioned that if it were not for the valve guides causing the problem I have, he thought I would get 500,000 to a mil more with the exception of oil usage due to ring wear. going to try & post pic. also having oil cooler replaced $150.00

 

cant figure out how to post pic's

 

Sorry to hear about your luck rosty. But maybe you should have went and did it.

http://www.classadrivers.com/forum/o...-didnt-do.html

 

Your a gdamn troublemaker!
:lol:

 

I try :smokin::rofl:

 

I have a 95' ser 60 det 11.1 365 h.p. Let's back up 20 months ago... I had an injector to start leaking. bad. I took in to local freightliner dealer. they put in all 6 injectors & overhead, e.t.c. at that time the truck had 1.1 mil miles on engine with no previous major work done. after getting truck from dealer, it had more power & better m.p.g than ever before. it never had that much power in the last 11 years I have been driving the truck & I bought truck with 400,000 miles on it. the one thing I also noticed was a noticeable increase in black smoke out the stack too, though I could go to places where previously I had to drop 1-2 gears on certain hill's to not dropping any. now..been great until.. fast foward approx 2 week's ago. I found coolant in my oil. dropped truck off at local shop who specialize's in detroit's. I figured what ever the cause, now with over 1.3 mil miles, I decided inframe reguardless. I went to look at truck couple day's ago. engine all apart. man say's the valve guides were so worn that it caused the valve's to hit the piston sleeve, & I think the sleeve seal. the cause of valve defecting was high mileage but moslty due to the ulsd, is what mechanic said. I saw the scratches & gouges on 2 of the liners. he told me that if it were not for the valve's causing the coolant leak, he thought I would likely have went another 500,000 without a problem , with the exception of more ring wear. he told me to keep doing what ever I have been doing with truck, cause he has not seen a engine with over 1.3 mil , have so many good internal part's. inspected gear train, siad looked great, cam looked great( I saw cam it looked like new) the liners or piston sleeves he said looked great on the out side. no pitting at all. except for the damage done by valve's , he said never seen sleeve's look that good. one thing he mentioned was the injectors that were installed 20 months prior by freightliner, was for a 12.7 detroit. I said well that probably explains the increase in power. he suggested we use the same cam, same injectors. all other part's will be replaced with new, main's inserts', cam bearing's, sleeves, e.t.c . what ever is called for in a inframe. does any one have any insight, recommendations,commet's on cause of problem with the sleeves getting battered other than the diagnosis here, or with the rebuild? thank you.

 

I don't think I can help with your question HH, but I'll ask a question, if ulsd is causing wear in the engine what can be done to balance it back out? Fuel additive maybe?

Next time I stop in to the shop I'll ask my mechanic about that.

 

I understand that there are some chemicals you can add to the ULSD. I don't recall the name. I would think that you could find them at most truck dealers or truck stops.