think you are confusing the new 6.7L engines with the older 5.9L engines...


the new 6.7L's with all of the emissions garbage on them need to be worked hard to keep from clogging up the exhaust and intake with soot...

the older ones don't have all that junk on them, so you can baby them all you want.

 

bit upset at the ramcharger right now. it was raining pretty hard last night. i hop in it today to park in on the street so i could drive my 81 and water started coming out around the light in my overhead console as i started moving. tried putting some more caulking on the plug in the roof that i think might have been leaking since it is suppose to rain a lot more. as i type i can hear the thunder. just waiting for the rain.

 

I know the newer ford 6.0 power strokes clog up regardless (a $250 aftermarket, $365 OEM EGR valve that clogs up every couple years, I helped a buddy of mine replace his and there was SOOOO much soot caked up in the intake, we used a putty knife to scoop it out, and a shop vac to get as much as we could, and this is a truck that hauls a heavy trailer). There is an EGR delete kit for that motor, but its a royal PITA to get install, IIRC its basically like replacing the head gasket and the intake is heavy and hard to get out of the truck.

Then on the newer motors used by some manufacturer's for fire trucks, a lot of emissions junk is required now and it lowers their power output and makes them much more expensive to maintain. Makes you wonder how much pollution is created in an effort to reduce the pollution from the motors themselves (sort of like the batteries on hybrid gas cars). I thought diesels were fairly clean except for the soot?


On my leaking headers from cracked welds-Can somone give me an idea of how much I should expect to pay to have my headers repaired? My friend only has a MIG so he can't do stainless so I was going to take it to a local machine/fab shop that has a TIG. The headers are pretty low quality stainless though, magnet kind of sticks to it, but not as good as iron and they started rusting pretty much as soon as they were on the truck outside. Def not even close to the quality of the full stainless exhaust I on my VW 7 years, full turbo back unpolished stainless exhaust with a polished muff+tips that still looks brand new, even after 7 New England winters.

I'm considering just going back to log manis on my Ram. I'm not planning on doing anything like roller rockers any time soon. Shorty headers don't make that big of a difference on a stock motor do they?

 

Honestly, I wouldn't bother. You put enough effort into them and they'll never be right. Check on gibson or another brand name for headers. Yes they're more but they'll fit right, last far longer, give better performance and you can usually find a good price by shopping around.

 

nv3500 gave up last week trying to get my greasy paws on a 97ss/t today ot doesn't have a motor put my 5.9 it hopefully it all works out

 

Picked up my rebuilt 5.9 the other night, painted it the old school Mopar turqoise. Should look good in a black Sport

 

Interesting color choice.....

 

Ordered new intake manifold bolts for the ram today. Going to be swapping my cylinder head on Sunday.

 

Can you shrink down your sig pic please? Thanks

 

Is a 1981 Dodge 150 LE 4x4 or 4x2?