99 7.3 rebuilt questions
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99 7.3 rebuilt questions
This doesn't sound right to me. I've seen/read some people saying that boring the block for a rebuilt on the 7.3 isn't needed very often, for the most part just new rings, gaskets, bearings, and misc. stuff is this correct? I'm looking to do a tear down here in the near future (depends on the wife purse strings LOL) and I'd like to make the ol'girl last until I die So with that said... I have just shy of 240K on it and I'd like to bump up the power to around 400-500hp range and have piece of mind of not dumping alot of cash and then losing it all because I was being cheap. I have tons of questions on the matter of what and how I should go about building good powerful power plant. BTW it's a daily driver that when I pull trailer its usually around 15,000-25,000lb average. The Edge Evo. is on it's way out too. Any advice would be great. Thanks, Brent
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just bore it out enough to clean up the cylinder walls, as to get to 400-500 HP some 238/100 hybrids, and a garret ball bearing should set you up just fine, or go the extra mile and get a hypemax kit that you can upgrade as you go, and get some custom tunes on a 6 pos. chip from someone of your choice, beans, swamps, PHP, etc...
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Re: 99 7.3 rebuilt questions
Thanks for the info! I don't think I need to bore it, but I'd like to check the compression first. Does anybody know how much a compression tester cost? But it still runs like a top. It does have a small oil leak from the back of the pan tho(maybe have to add 1qt between oil changes). I checked the valley and it looks fairly dry only a light film of oil, looks like from the valve covers to me. I don't have an oil pressure gauge that reads in psi but the dash gauge is almost 1/4" from the high mark cold or hot. I was not sure how much I can do to it without breaking the bank and keeping the spouse happy too. As for pulling a heavy load its only 2-3 times a year when hauling mining equipment up to the claim.
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