buddy has a hot shot service and has a little over 500K on his 04 3500. i have noticed his truck being at home a lot and asked his wife what the deal was. she said it broke down and needs to be resleeved but a CTD cannot be resleeved like on most other diesels.

this may seem like stupid questions, but what is resleeving, why would this need to be done, and why can it not be done on a cummins? thank you all for making me a smarter person!

 

Damn, dont really know the answer to your question but he must have been doing some driving...

 

Triton or someone else blew there NEW ctd this past year. had it bored out ( and sleeved?) and totally rebuilt for HO

 

the resleeving deal is for on lots of big rigs the cylinder wall is actually just an insert. that way when the engine finally dies they just replace the sleeve and the pistons and all is well again to get back on the road. most light duty diesels like the ones in these trucks don't have sleeves as far as I know. you can bore them out and put a sleeve in there but that price would be substantial.

 

you can sleeve a Cummins. It's what's shown to repair a bad cylinder in the service manual.

the cylinders in our trucks can be bored twice. .0040" is as larger of a bore that you can do. After that the block is no good. You can sleeve them as much as you want but, by doing that you're limiting yourself to a stock Cummins piston. Nothing wrong with the product itself, you just have the same thing you did before. By boring it you have the option to run different sized rings.

Not sure if it was 04's but, one of the years came sleeved. All others are straight cylinder walls. If yours came sleeved then yes, you can just resleeve it with sleeves from Cummins. If it didn't, you can buy the sleeves from Cummins to do it or..... just have it bored.


edit: here the part number....

3904166
english 3904166 Salvage Sleeve B This salvage sleeve is used to repair damaged or worn cylinder bores for the B Series engines. Consult your repair manual for specifications and procedures for installation.

 

if you do happen to have one with sleeves Id be warry of resleeving it because of the deck hieght issue. theres not many builders out there, besides large builders, that are exspirenced with this kind of rebuild.Also im sure what these little cummins are, atleast the years they where supposily sleeved, if there wet sleeve or dry sleeve, im assuming there dry sleeves. just some thoughts if someone was doing it.

 

if any of the dodge CTD's were ever sleeved it would probably have been some of the first gens but I doubt that. . .2nd and 3rd gens are not sleeved.


the engines that freightliner, kenworth, and so on may have sleeves, however an engine as small as the ISB in terms of diesels probably wouldnt have been sleeved.

 

Holy cow. 500,000 miles in 3 years? Thats about 166K a year or 13,888 miles a month. That dude is driving more in a month than I do in a year.

 

in the trucking buisness. . .if the wheels aint turning, you aint making money.

 

for the most part anything ISL and smaller will not have sleeves