So an EGR delete and Oil Cooler are inevitable, but should I fork over the extra $1500-$1800 for studs and HGs if mine are fine? The old adage about if aint broke don't fix it comes to mind.
That's what I'm thinking...and while I'd love to dig in it and do the work, I don't have time right now. I live in an apartment and usually travel on the weekends. I thought about trying to do it at a buddies shop over a few nights, but I work in the electric utility business and our 3 nuclear plants I work for are having back to back to back refueling outages from yesterday actually through the 1st or 2nd week of May, so work will be crazy.
Mine are fine as well but I am in need of an oil cooler so doing it that and an egr delete. I decided while I was that deep to go ahead and do the HG and studs this way I hopefully never have to go that deep again. Granted I will go down to the heads again when I do the injectors but won't have to mess with the HG agains.
The reason I asked is, if you are paying a shop to do it then do it all at once. We do not charge our customers extra to do the updates and oil cooler rebuild when the cab is off because everything is off and easy to get to.
Edit: Assuming you find a shop that wont charge you extra.
Yeah I'm going to see what the difference in labor is. It's about $800 in parts. I will have them doing injectors too but all you have to do is pull the valve covers and oil rails for that, not the cab ha.
If it was us all of it would be done for one price. Basically its up to you, but if you go through all this work and the gaskets go in 6 months youll be paying how much more to go back in and do a good amount of the work over? Murphy's law right?
Sorry... You dont pull the cab to do the coolers. What I was saying is the oil cooler pays 8.5 hrs I belive? So you pay a shop to do the coolers, and the gaskets go sooner then you thought...Now your out the 8hrs and fluids and have to pull the cab to do the gaskets. OR...you pay to do the gaskets and have the coolers done at the same time and the truck should be good to go.
I also read a lot about people doing them just because and then having repeated problems with them. In theory what causes the stock setup to fail is leaking coolant into the cylinder from a failed EGR cooler and the pistons trying to compress that coolant, lifting the heads up, correct?
Yes for the most part. When you start adding power it is only a matter of time until the factory bolts become an issue. Without the EGR you are much better off. You will have to do the studs eventually. It can be summed up like this. If you have the money do the whole thing in one shot. If you dont then do what you can to get it back on the road. If you do it all it will save you money...and for the love of god pick a shop that does these on a regular basis.
Yeah the shop that will be doing it is a diesel pickup only shop that does these all the time. I'd look into a dealer doing it but they won't do an EGR delete or warranty anything with my mods.
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