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The Green Grendel
- Thread starter campfire
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I will remind you that I paid $200 for the entire long block.
I think I'd be building a very different kind of motor before I dumped $450 into just the crankshaft.
Dang you and all your 6.2 talk. This came up and I want it for some dumb reason
Man, that looks so much easier than my "one piece at a time" method.
Though figuring it out is a big part of the fun, you could drop that right in if it's in decent shape.I have a use for that factory-style cruise control module. Hint, hint.
Also, the banks exhaust manifold is much better than the ATS manifold I'm using. It solves a bunch of problems. ATS would have been money ahead to just mirror their kit and squeeze it in on the driver side of the engine bay. It's not a great match for the truck.
Man, that looks so much easier than my "one piece at a time" method.
I have a use for that factory-style cruise control module. Hint, hint.
$600 for the cruise stuff and I’ll keep the engine sounds like a fair deal
The problem is I don’t have a truck I want to stick it in! Could put it in the 79 crew cab with an NV4500 and one of my ford 60’s
$6.00 for the cruise stuff and I’ll keep the engine sounds like a fair deal
Six bucks? I can do that.
The problem is I don’t have a truck I want to stick it in! Could put it in the 79 crew cab with an NV4500 and one of my ford 60’s
Sounds like a good plan to me. Rowing gears is therapeutically fun.
It's kind of weird to look back on the string of 6.x engines. It has become boringly familiar now that I have most of the bolt locations and sizes memorized. Throwing a Banks kit & NV4500 into a '79 now sounds like a cake walk.
Ooh...I just remembered we swapped out the engine in the '93. So I guess I've worked on 6 of these engines, not 5.
It's kind of weird to look back on the string of 6.x engines. It has become boringly familiar now that I have most of the bolt locations and sizes memorized. Throwing a Banks kit & NV4500 into a '79 now sounds like a cake walk.
Ooh...I just remembered we swapped out the engine in the '93. So I guess I've worked on 6 of these engines, not 5.
It’s not that I can’t do it, I just want to use an engine with more power in that truck. Although I may just end up tossing a 6.0 in it in the end who knows
Hey there, FordGuy. If you throw a 6.0 Powerstroke in there our friendship might never recover.
I spent a 1000 on a forged crank that's currently sitting unused. I'll reuse it one day.
I'm not sure this truck has anything to gain by throwing speed parts at it. It's for putzing around town & trail. No more, no less. MAW would eat you alive if you tried to bring the whole truck up to a high standard.
Though I'm happy to watch you throw $3200 into a crankshaft...
It's not just speed parts. If a forged crank will prevent you from buying 1-2 more used engines I think it was worth it. Considering each used engine you get into has the same probably for failure it's money well spent.
It's a little late for you in this case since the engine is in, but it's good info for others.
It's a little late for you in this case since the engine is in, but it's good info for others.
Generally I'd agree with you. In this case, I won't be buying 2 more used 6.2 engines for this truck, because I've gotten bored with the platform. A while back I looked into rebuilding the extra 6.5 we had lying around and decided I'd rather dump the time and money into some other class of engine. Still true now. Building an engine would be fun, but I have several ideas higher up on the list.
David's answer explains the failure mode and lines up with what I've read elsewhere. This wasn't a stock setup, and that may have played a large part in the failure. No practical way for me to test the surface hardness of that crankshaft given my tool set, but I wouldn't assume the two crankshafts are equal.
Nope they aren't equal. You got one that was turned and one that didn't. I'd be looking for marks that it had been turned.
