Engine had a bloody hiccup

AMS3 said:
Be careful over there. I just hope I don't have some adverse reaction to Moderna, like a third eye, or three arms.
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So scary either way! Get it and grow a third eye and still possibly get the bug, don't get and take your chance with the bug! This is getting old

Then so are we!
 
AMS3 said:
Yeah, had another buddy get the bug back in July, put him in the hospital for a week. he still has shortness of breath if he walks a little distance. I'm getting the Moderna jab next Tuesday, his illness finally pushed me over to the darkside to get it.
I understand about the age thing, I'll be 58 this Sunday. How time flies, LOL!
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Happy Birthday! I just had one on the 18th!
 
Kiwi SRT10 said:
There are a lot of trick stuff going on that most people don't know about
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True! I have taken my truck to the Dodge dealership on several occasions only to find out that they didn’t have a mechanic that knew the difference between my engine and a regular engine (or at least how to work on a V-10). Needless to say, the maintenance has been less than desirable. A simple spark plug change a few months ago left me with a check engine light and a P035, P038 code. My truck has been in the shop for over a month (July 13) and I haven’t been able to get the maintenance supervisor to do a diagnostic on it yet!!! He tells me that I need a new engine and that my engine has no oil pressure, but I don’t think he’s being genuine. I think he is trying to get me to go the new engine route so that he can get my old engine because he knows that it would be a huge job to replace the engine and he could make a nice profit on getting my old one. It has been an epic challenge to find a good, honest mechanic…
 
jenkinsjd said:
True! I have taken my truck to the Dodge dealership on several occasions only to find out that they didn’t have a mechanic that knew the difference between my engine and a regular engine (or at least how to work on a V-10). Needless to say, the maintenance has been less than desirable. A simple spark plug change a few months ago left me with a check engine light and a P035, P038 code. My truck has been in the shop for over a month (July 13) and I haven’t been able to get the maintenance supervisor to do a diagnostic on it yet!!! He tells me that I need a new engine and that my engine has no oil pressure, but I don’t think he’s being genuine. I think he is trying to get me to go the new engine route so that he can get my old engine because he knows that it would be a huge job to replace the engine and he could make a nice profit on getting my old one. It has been an epic challenge to find a good, honest mechanic…
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That is terrible. I have no one here in NZ that would be up to speed working on these trucks. I had to find a really good mechanic, that can work on anything, and they had to work it out as they go. So far so good. They put new head gaskets on and I have no complaints yet.....touch wood.
P0305 is a misfire on cylinder 5 and p0308 is a misfire on cylinder 8. Mostly spark plug or lead or even coil.
Only in extreme cases would that be a catastrophic engine failure. You would get smoke out of oil filler cap exhaust etc, oil in coolant (goes brown) coolant in oil. If no bangs clunks were heard and none of these symptoms were seen then......Get it out of there
 
jenkinsjd said:
True! I have taken my truck to the Dodge dealership on several occasions only to find out that they didn’t have a mechanic that knew the difference between my engine and a regular engine (or at least how to work on a V-10). Needless to say, the maintenance has been less than desirable. A simple spark plug change a few months ago left me with a check engine light and a P035, P038 code. My truck has been in the shop for over a month (July 13) and I haven’t been able to get the maintenance supervisor to do a diagnostic on it yet!!! He tells me that I need a new engine and that my engine has no oil pressure, but I don’t think he’s being genuine. I think he is trying to get me to go the new engine route so that he can get my old engine because he knows that it would be a huge job to replace the engine and he could make a nice profit on getting my old one. It has been an epic challenge to find a good, honest mechanic…
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Oh yeah! These engines, in running conditon, can fetch $7-10k easily (more if they're low-mileage and very clean.) Hell, I'd suspect a blown one would still net around $2-3K.
 
jenkinsjd said:
True! I have taken my truck to the Dodge dealership on several occasions only to find out that they didn’t have a mechanic that knew the difference between my engine and a regular engine (or at least how to work on a V-10). Needless to say, the maintenance has been less than desirable. A simple spark plug change a few months ago left me with a check engine light and a P035, P038 code. My truck has been in the shop for over a month (July 13) and I haven’t been able to get the maintenance supervisor to do a diagnostic on it yet!!! He tells me that I need a new engine and that my engine has no oil pressure, but I don’t think he’s being genuine. I think he is trying to get me to go the new engine route so that he can get my old engine because he knows that it would be a huge job to replace the engine and he could make a nice profit on getting my old one. It has been an epic challenge to find a good, honest mechanic…
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These motors are very basic by modern engine standards. Any mechanic should be able to work on them.
Hell even I put coils leads and plugs in mine last year. Getting the right 1/4 drive sockets and extensions to get the inlet manifold off was the hardest part. The hardest part is reaching inside the hood as the motor is set low and right back against the firewall.
If they put new plugs in and it is now miss firing I would be looking at leads. To do that you take the inlet manifold off so you may as well put new coils on at same time as they are cheap as chips or upgrade to Screamin' Demon coils and Live Wires (Performance Distributors) as I did and get a better spark and run a wider plug gap and better burn
 
jenkinsjd said:
True! I have taken my truck to the Dodge dealership on several occasions only to find out that they didn’t have a mechanic that knew the difference between my engine and a regular engine (or at least how to work on a V-10). Needless to say, the maintenance has been less than desirable. A simple spark plug change a few months ago left me with a check engine light and a P035, P038 code. My truck has been in the shop for over a month (July 13) and I haven’t been able to get the maintenance supervisor to do a diagnostic on it yet!!! He tells me that I need a new engine and that my engine has no oil pressure, but I don’t think he’s being genuine. I think he is trying to get me to go the new engine route so that he can get my old engine because he knows that it would be a huge job to replace the engine and he could make a nice profit on getting my old one. It has been an epic challenge to find a good, honest mechanic…
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Your oil pressure gauge not working? As for maintenance, I have all of my work done at a speed shop, never had any trouble.
 
Jeffrey F Maanao said:
So I started my stock 2006 quad cab with 67k miles after sitting for almost a year, warmed it up to temp check, oil pressure check, battery voltage check, rpm check, opened electric cutouts check, neighbor karen walks out check, closed cutouts, and backed out of carport unto main street check lol... drove around the block to next street over down the culdesac, made a U-turn to return home and right before the traffic light, 1st sound observed seemed like a broken spring? rod knock? piston slap? then............. loud metal clanking and engine stalled. Pool of coolant followed by pool of oil ;D Contacted towing then talked to Tony from JTSVP explaining the situation. AAA'd baby home for inspection and found the big hole displaying the guts inside cylinder #4

Looking for all suggestions on parts and proper route to take on re-awakening this beast! All help is greatly appreciated!

Rebuild time (engine only, transmission in the future)
Live in California and am not a big fan of their smog laws
Budget of about $15k to invest (assuming $3k-$5k on labor alone)
Fully forged (NA)
+80hp -90hp (100 max!)
Looking towards overall power, more in the torque-side end and not so much on horsepower
Pump gas friendly (will be daily driver once resurrected)

Thanks ya'll!
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Hello would it be cheaper to just call X2 builders for another Gen3 swap? I know they carry em in their inventory.
 
Kiwi SRT10 said:
Lockdown, Lockdown, What ya gunna do, What ya gunna do when they come for you (bad boys)
Make it worse I dropped my phone yesterday and the screen went mostly dark so I can't use that. Who knows when I can get that fixed or replaced. :(
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Kiwi on ebay buy a new screen it comes with the tools to Rand R pretty easy task even the cave man can do it lol!!!!
 
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