1lejohn
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- Joined
- May 14, 2012
- Posts
- 420
- Reaction score
- 1,082
- Location
- texas
- First Name
- john
- Truck Year
- 1985 , 2004
- Truck Model
- k-1500, 2500 HD
- Engine Size
- 350, 6.7
Really this is an old project that was running till it spun a cam bearing. I've owned it about 15 years. Time for another rebuild.
This is the good. A cat eyed 2500 HD we call Bertha. The engine was rebuilt at about 160K. It is a forged bottom end 408, with stock 317 big chamber heads, a TBSS intake and shorty headers. The 80 E was rebuilt about a week after the motor was put back in. Talk about bad luck. Oh well I've heard they are only good for 180K or so. The front brakes, and tires are fairly new. It was a 6.0 or 6 slow. I wasn't ever really impressed with the stock engine. They had head gasket problems, at least mine did. It would leak coolant into the exhaust and out the tail pipe it went. I thought the rear main was gone thus the motor was pulled, only to find it was the front cover gasket. At that the point the 408 became a vision. I justified a total rebuild because of the previous head gasket issues.
This is the good. A cat eyed 2500 HD we call Bertha. The engine was rebuilt at about 160K. It is a forged bottom end 408, with stock 317 big chamber heads, a TBSS intake and shorty headers. The 80 E was rebuilt about a week after the motor was put back in. Talk about bad luck. Oh well I've heard they are only good for 180K or so. The front brakes, and tires are fairly new. It was a 6.0 or 6 slow. I wasn't ever really impressed with the stock engine. They had head gasket problems, at least mine did. It would leak coolant into the exhaust and out the tail pipe it went. I thought the rear main was gone thus the motor was pulled, only to find it was the front cover gasket. At that the point the 408 became a vision. I justified a total rebuild because of the previous head gasket issues.
