Awesome to see you take on this project in stride Elliott! The engine looks to be in really good shape. Hopefully when you take it up to the machine shop it wont need much work.
Nice job I'm currently working on a 1995 12v Cummins out of a fl 80 freightliner truck blown head gasket and head and block was .015 out of flat I used an oversize gasket new head bolts and torqued left stick 215 hp no mods worked. But if you are planning on more power I would have it machined. The cheapest Machinist wanted 1500 to machine the heading back the motor only cost me Junior $50 being that it was burning antifreeze so I took the gamble when we went oversized gasket and it worked nice job keep up the good work
This is definitely interesting to me. I even thought of possibly swapping a Cummins into my 6.0, but I also just bought a 6.8 v10 with 156k, so I may just run the v10. But I'm deff looking forward to the next video in this series! 👍👍
i would say the majority of the ''blown headgaskets'' were caused by the original head bolts loosening off over a long period of time, a couple older guys turned me onto that issue, once i get one of these motors i immediately go over the head bolts and see what there at, a lot of the time they are well under 100ftlbs each, ive seen guys go over them all and stop external coolant leaks all together. Id say you were extremely lucky as well to get all the exhaust manifold bolts off without snapping one off, someone forsure had that off already with the miss matched bolt head sizes, those are original pistons as well and they all look fine from what i can see.
I kinda figured someone snapped one off and had to drill and tap a new hole. Didn't seem right that Cummins would put different bolts in from the factory
I have a 2003 3500 4x4 6 speed dodge with a 94 - 97 5.9 12v with the p pump. I'm fixing to have to do the same thing because it's leaking in the same spot. I don't know why the previous owner put the older 5.9 in it but I like it.
I have a 96 Dodge 4-wd, 1-ton. with the 5.9 and it just turned 65,000 miles so I've never seen the pistons. I did fix the killer dowel pin, and lost 5th gear on the NV4500 which was an easy fix. Other than that no plans for it other than take good care. Will check out your updates.
My dad could tell you all about that motor lol Ive always been envious of his knowledge! But unlike him, we have the internet.. so basically we are smarter than our parents lol
I like your method for not losing the bolts
Best method in my opinion…no doubt of where things go during re assembly
Awesome to see you take on this project in stride Elliott! The engine looks to be in really good shape. Hopefully when you take it up to the machine shop it wont need much work.
Time and money!
TTY
Re-Torq or leak
Good job great video on the 5.9 keep them coming!
Appreciate that! Thanks for watching
Did you get the block deck resurfaced
To be completely honest. I haven’t touched it since I pulled it apart. Life got busy
Nice job I'm currently working on a 1995 12v Cummins out of a fl 80 freightliner truck blown head gasket and head and block was .015 out of flat I used an oversize gasket new head bolts and torqued left stick 215 hp no mods worked. But if you are planning on more power I would have it machined. The cheapest Machinist wanted 1500 to machine the heading back the motor only cost me Junior $50 being that it was burning antifreeze so I took the gamble when we went oversized gasket and it worked nice job keep up the good work
Yeah mine needs to go to the machine shop. I don’t want to spend all the money on go fast parts only to have a warped head that won’t hold power
Wtf, I had my head machined and hot tanked for $160 in socal. Brought in bare
This is definitely interesting to me. I even thought of possibly swapping a Cummins into my 6.0, but I also just bought a 6.8 v10 with 156k, so I may just run the v10. But I'm deff looking forward to the next video in this series! 👍👍
run that V10 till she blows, then swap it!
Interesting! Keep us posted on the Cummins build!
Doesn't seem like that many people are interested in it based on the number of views...
@@EverythingElliott maybe add fummins to the title or Cummins swap or something….. might get some more views.
i would say the majority of the ''blown headgaskets'' were caused by the original head bolts loosening off over a long period of time, a couple older guys turned me onto that issue, once i get one of these motors i immediately go over the head bolts and see what there at, a lot of the time they are well under 100ftlbs each, ive seen guys go over them all and stop external coolant leaks all together. Id say you were extremely lucky as well to get all the exhaust manifold bolts off without snapping one off, someone forsure had that off already with the miss matched bolt head sizes, those are original pistons as well and they all look fine from what i can see.
I kinda figured someone snapped one off and had to drill and tap a new hole. Didn't seem right that Cummins would put different bolts in from the factory
I have a 2003 3500 4x4 6 speed dodge with a 94 - 97 5.9 12v with the p pump. I'm fixing to have to do the same thing because it's leaking in the same spot. I don't know why the previous owner put the older 5.9 in it but I like it.
Probably because there’s no electronics to mess with. Or they blew the 24v and had a 12v laying around
I have a 96 Dodge 4-wd, 1-ton. with the 5.9 and it just turned 65,000 miles so I've never seen the pistons. I did fix the killer dowel pin, and lost 5th gear on the NV4500 which was an easy fix. Other than that no plans for it other than take good care. Will check out your updates.
1996 with only 65k miles on it?! that thing must be cherry!
Gonna re-do the flatbed, decking is a little rotten but otherwise the cab and chassis is god original, no rust or dents.
You learn by doing, get after it 👍🇺🇸🇺🇸
gotta figure out how things work somehow!
My dad could tell you all about that motor lol Ive always been envious of his knowledge! But unlike him, we have the internet.. so basically we are smarter than our parents lol
The internet is a dangerous tool that’s for sure
You need to get all new head bolts .
Thats the plan
nice