New guy from Kansas

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I always heard they had problems breaking cranks, but I had never actually seen one do it. Just my luck, mine broke the crank 2 days after I bought it.

The 6.2 I put back in it is out of another pickup. I put all new bearings in it and re-ringed it. New oil pump, new injectors, new harmonic balancer, new glow plugs, rebuilt starter, etc. Pretty much everything but bore the cylinders, cause new pistons were effin expensive. I didn't want to put any more money into it cause now I'm paranoid this one will break the crank too and I'll be out a ton of money.

 

[HotRodPC]

Many times diesels don't need bored. This is because diesel fuel is an oil itself, so there is alot less friction and cylinder wear than a gas motor. Exactly why diesel motors outlast gas motors motors more than 2 to 1. Now that is reffering to the internals not everything else. But, sounds like you should be good to go for quite some time. Only thing I didn't see replaced that might be an issue down the road is the injector pump. Did you measure the cylinders for tolerances to see where the wear is if any???

 

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Injector pump was just recently rebuilt on the blown up motor and everything looked great so I ran it. And the cylinders had a bit of taper to them, but not terrible. It was good enough for my brother and he's a diesel mechanic, so it was good enough for me. Lol. Working on a diesel motor is foreign territory for me.

 

[HotRodPC]

Sounds like all the paticulars are new or recently new then. Should be a good running motor for quite some time.

 

[Irishman999]

From everything I read about the 6.2 it sounds like this motor will be fine for years to come. The breaking cranks problem is caused by bad balancing in the engine. From everything i read, a new updated harmonic balancer will fix it and should not happen again.

 

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I'm crossing my fingers. Lol. I finally got the starter back and installed last weekend. So now I can get back to getting everything buttoned up and take it out for a test drive.

 

[clkelley]

Welcome to the neighborhood!

 

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Well, I took a some pictures of the rest of my junk while I was at my brothers house for those who were interested.

The '82 I'm gonna use as a DD so I can keep the new Dodge halfway decent. Just picked up the drivetrain for it on Saturday.

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'81 shortbed C10. Title is in limbo in an estate, so its gonna get parted out

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'82 C10 that I robbed the 6.2 out of. It's got a sunroof! Lol.

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And a '72 C10. RIP. Gave its 350 to my camaro.

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[HotRodPC]

You certianly have some parts.

 

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Yea...I should have robbed the good parts and smashed a couple while iron prices were high. I just hate to see an old truck go out like that.

 

[HotRodPC]

Yea...I should have robbed the good parts and smashed a couple while iron prices were high. I just hate to see an old truck go out like that.

I know what you mean. I recently scrapped a K10 and K10 Burb for $230 a ton. That wasn't so bad. And I robbed a **** ton of good parts of them. They were rust buckets so it didn't hurt to bad.