Chevy/GMC Duramax 06-07 LBZ Discussion of Chevy and GMC Trucks with LBZ Duramax Turbo Diesel Engines

She Gave Up The Ghost

Thread Tools
 
Search this Thread
 
  #21  
Old 08-16-2008, 08:12 AM
E2theRock2's Avatar
Diesel Bomber
Join Date: May 2008
Location: BFE
Posts: 1,267
Received 95 Likes on 71 Posts
Default

Man that sucks I know if that would have happened to (actually it did) there would be a major *** kickin in order and my brother would be paying the full repair of my pickup.... I was lettin my brother borrow my old 06 DMAX and he went out muddin with his buddies that all own little Yotas and he went somewhere he shouldnt have gone and the truck got stuck bad. Yea so he put it in four dig and hammered it and broke the right front half shaft and then failed to tell me when i came up to jerk him out. Yea I was a little beyond pissed. Same thing happened about a week ago while i was on vaca in Florida my brother drove my ranch truck (2001 cummins 6spd man) and toasted the tranny "forgot" to tell me so now I'm out a ranch truck til he pays to fix it and it doesnt look like he will anytime soon. Hope everything works out ok for ya sounds like you had a pretty killer truck.
 
  #22  
Old 08-18-2008, 02:46 PM
Alli_Gator's Avatar
Site Sponsor - Alligator Performance
Thread Starter
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Idaho
Posts: 453
Received 41 Likes on 32 Posts
Default

Originally Posted by redneckbuckeye
Get one of the 7.1 socal stroker kits, that would be nice. Are you 100% sure that it has a cracke piston, If so I hope your block is salvagable. I hope I never have to go through this, All I have ran is the PPE 225 tune so I am hoping and thinking it will be fine.
I don't know what else it would be, the crankcase is pressurized, so it is definitely bypassing the combustion chamber. My mechaninc comes back off of sick leave this wednesday and as soon as he finishes up the backlog, I will have him pull the motor and see what the damage is.

---AutoMerged DoublePost---

Originally Posted by redneckbuckeye
I hope I never have to go through this, All I have ran is the PPE 225 tune so I am hoping and thinking it will be fine.
Me too, I ran the PPE 160 tune for about a year before this and only 4k on the race tune. Only 10 or so trips down the 1320...

---AutoMerged DoublePost---

Originally Posted by Texasmax
Did he run it with the lift pump off?

Possibly a cold start and he hammered on it.

Dix
The lift pump comes on with the key, and in talking to Guy at SoCal diesel it probably was hot rodded and turned off w/o any cool down time. The squirters on the Dmax shut off at below 20 psi and at idle, the oil psi is just below that.
 

Last edited by Alli_Gator; 08-18-2008 at 02:46 PM. Reason: Automerged Doublepost
  #23  
Old 08-18-2008, 06:49 PM
GmcLbz's Avatar
Site Sponsor - Upstate Diesel Performance
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Cincinnatus,NY
Posts: 802
Received 31 Likes on 31 Posts
Default

Originally Posted by Alli_Gator
I don't know what else it would be, the crankcase is pressurized, so it is definitely bypassing the combustion chamber. My mechaninc comes back off of sick leave this wednesday and as soon as he finishes up the backlog, I will have him pull the motor and see what the damage is.

---AutoMerged DoublePost---



Me too, I ran the PPE 160 tune for about a year before this and only 4k on the race tune. Only 10 or so trips down the 1320...

---AutoMerged DoublePost---



The lift pump comes on with the key, and in talking to Guy at SoCal diesel it probably was hot rodded and turned off w/o any cool down time. The squirters on the Dmax shut off at below 20 psi and at idle, the oil psi is just below that.
So everything is still pointing to a cracked piston? That sucks!!!
 
  #24  
Old 08-18-2008, 07:18 PM
Alli_Gator's Avatar
Site Sponsor - Alligator Performance
Thread Starter
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Idaho
Posts: 453
Received 41 Likes on 32 Posts
Default

Originally Posted by GmcLbz
So everything is still pointing to a cracked piston? That sucks!!!
Yup, be prepared for it if you run yours hard. Same weak pistons
 
  #25  
Old 08-18-2008, 09:13 PM
GmcLbz's Avatar
Site Sponsor - Upstate Diesel Performance
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Cincinnatus,NY
Posts: 802
Received 31 Likes on 31 Posts
Default

Originally Posted by Alli_Gator
Yup, be prepared for it if you run yours hard. Same weak pistons

Yeah, thanks alot I've been thinking about this more and more. No telling when they go though.
 
  #26  
Old 08-20-2008, 06:11 PM
Alli_Gator's Avatar
Site Sponsor - Alligator Performance
Thread Starter
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Idaho
Posts: 453
Received 41 Likes on 32 Posts
Default

Originally Posted by GmcLbz
Yeah, thanks alot I've been thinking about this more and more. No telling when they go though.

I had been thinking about it alot too. Just the night before the piston cracked as a matter of fact.
 
  #27  
Old 08-22-2008, 11:49 PM
dozerboy's Avatar
Diesel Wrench
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: TX
Posts: 988
Received 55 Likes on 44 Posts
Default

That blows, but you got to pay to play. Thats the one good thing about EFI not releasing the stand alone tuning yet. That has kept me from getting it and kept me from blowing something up.
 
  #28  
Old 08-27-2008, 01:10 PM
Texasmax's Avatar
Diesel Fan
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: DFW
Posts: 74
Likes: 0
Received 3 Likes on 3 Posts
Default

Did you tear into it yet? Piston??? Man I hope not!

Keep us posted!

Dix
 
  #29  
Old 09-19-2008, 07:49 PM
Alli_Gator's Avatar
Site Sponsor - Alligator Performance
Thread Starter
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Idaho
Posts: 453
Received 41 Likes on 32 Posts
Default

Originally Posted by Texasmax
Did you tear into it yet? Piston??? Man I hope not!

Keep us posted!

Dix

# 4 Piston, not cracked but hole the size of a pea blown through it and left a nice spot on the cylinder wall. It should be able to be honed out, or will get it bored .020 or .030 over and put new better slugs in it.
 
  #30  
Old 09-19-2008, 07:51 PM
2500HeavyDuty's Avatar
Super Moderator
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Houston, Tx
Posts: 14,872
Received 764 Likes on 627 Posts
Default

hell just go .040 over
 



All times are GMT -5. The time now is 08:18 PM.