Well, the Dodge had it's first ride on a tow truck this morning. My Engine seized on the highway about 10 miles from the house. It started to get a slight knock on a cold start-up that went away about 3 seconds after it ran. Well, today I guess whatever it was went out in a bad way. It started knocking hard out of nowhere so I pulled off and looked under the hood, saw nothing, then shut it off. Never started back up.

Oil is fine, water good, trans good, and yep, there's windshield wiper fluid too. I'll dig into it later next week as I have a work truck. The Ol' Lady say's I need to ditch the Beast and get a 6.7 Cummins. I think I have too much invested in the thing to walk away now. Any thoughts?

 

6.7 cummins swap fixes both problems

 

Do what you need to do. And I would buy a 5.9 before a 6.7. The emssions delete stuff is just coming out so there will be bugs in the system.

 

cummins conversion, thats the way to go

 

there's a lot of factors in determining if its time to let her go. How much do you like it? What else can go wrong? How much $$ have you put in? It's a tough decision believe me I know.

 

never know may be minor...doubtful though...not to discourage

 

Yea I would agree with a 5.9 over the 6.7 but his wife wants the 6.7 and think about it how many 2nd gens have a 6.7 in them

 

time for a 408

 

Dude thats a bad day, I vote you buy a 2nd gen with a cummins, with a trashed body, and swap everything over, at least thats what id do. Whatever you do tho, good luck, and I hope your rollin in a ram again soon!

 

she wants to be fixed..think about the truck, she needs you