duramax's melting down???

[AZdragger]

or you get owner's like this

http://phoenix.craigslist.org/car/202682751.html



who have an 01 3500 chevy with a 6.8L Cummins attached to an allison tranny.........with Duramax logos on the doors

http://c.im.craigslist.org/yM/wq/WQd...NeKr0yoAcD.jpg

[duratothemax]

Originally Posted by craq

and 2001, since LB7s came out that year...

not all LB7's. FE9 federal emmissions trucks didnt have EGR's or cats.

[kylersaulsbury]

Originally Posted by seth350

A guy at work told me IIRC that on the Cummins engines, you had a fuel plate and that if you took it out it and drove it hard you could melt the engine down.
But thats the older Cummins engines, idk how the newer duramaxs work.

yeah you might be able to but you would have to have a very very strong tranny and retard the timing and then try as hard as you could. but my buddy moved his fuel plate out not even 1/2 way and it just spins past the clutch, so good luck!
kyler

[craq]

Originally Posted by duratothemax

not all LB7's. FE9 federal emmissions trucks didnt have EGR's or cats.

touche.


learn something new every day.

[TwoTone98Z71]

Originally Posted by oldred95

Yea I don't think my teacher knows as much as I do at times.

wow he must be insanely worthless then...

[oldred95]

Originally Posted by TwoTone98Z71

wow he must be insanely worthless then...

Yesturday he said the pinch weld was the strongest point of any vehicle and is where you should lift it at. He says to me, look under that F150 and you can see the pinch weld on it too. I said no, there is a pinch weld but you'll smash the body in if you lift off that. If its got a frame you lift on the frame. He says oh well yea. I was like why the fock did you say to lift on the pinch weld then.

[AZdragger]

Originally Posted by oldred95

Yesturday he said the pinch weld was the strongest point of any vehicle and is where you should lift it at. He says to me, look under that F150 and you can see the pinch weld on it too. I said no, there is a pinch weld but you'll smash the body in if you lift off that. If its got a frame you lift on the frame. He says oh well yea. I was like why the fock did you say to lift on the pinch weld then.

maybe he's just playin to see how intelligent you are, cause maybe he's a member on here and seen the 99.9% of your useless threads so he's just testing you

[oldred95]

Originally Posted by AZdragger

maybe he's just playin to see how intelligent you are, cause maybe he's a member on here and seen the 99.9% of your useless threads so he's just testing you

I think he'd have a seizure if he had to be around and work on chevy's. He's all ford.

Then here's another brilliant statement he told me. He said "I run waste oil in my dozer because it leaks so bad that I don't want to buy new oil for it because it leaks it right back out." That statement had me wondering if I'm wasting my money at this school or not. Think I might be.

[red suburban]

wow your teacher is an idiot. since he teaches automotive u'd figure he would just fix the oil leak because i bet that dozer engine is far from cheap to rebuild after being deprived of oil.

my cousins fiance used to be a mechanic at chevy and said that alot of the early d-max's that were modified were having major bottom end problems, but that it was fixed around 03-04.

[duratothemax]

Originally Posted by red suburban

my cousins fiance used to be a mechanic at chevy and said that alot of the early d-max's that were modified were having major bottom end problems, but that it was fixed around 03-04.

first ive heard of that...the duramax was unchanged from 2001-2004.

the tuning/mods required to put the stock duramax internals at risk have only been around a year or so.

[dozerboy]

X2 but it may not be only the bottom end the cam dowel is partly to blame.