2010 Peterbilt 387 HELP

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(01-03-2020 )adjuliman Wrote:  So best thing to do is get new rods at overhaul time?

Here you go, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfPxx9vEoQU

That is Jerry, (Mr Hagg) and Rawze is filming...

In frame the motor, take it to Mr Hagg or do it yourself, do not trust a shop to do this properly, they rarely ever do. I am a testament to that, and there are more than a few of us here. My FIRST in frame, licensed and certified Cummins shop, she made it roughly 100,000 miles, the motor was shot due to piss poor workmanship and just plain old laziness. My $38,000 in frame made it 70,000 miles before showing symptoms of a fretted liner, which took out the head. I played with it for a bit, not wanting to admit my mistake, I nursed her another 30,000 miles, and then there was no denying... $38,000 got me 100,000 miles and a drive to Atlanta GA with a rag zip tied to my coolant jug for a lesson in how to PROPERLY in frame a Cummins ISX CM-871. .

Rawze invited me to his house to repair the damage the licensed and certified dealership did to my motor. We rebuilt it in his driveway, outside, under a canopy I picked up at Home Depot. Rawze and others warned me this would be the case... That was a $38,000 mistake you do not want to make.

Here is the kicker, this shop installed CM-2350 parts, liners, injectors, cam shafts etc, into my CM-871. It was a mess, they dry started it, injector cam scissor gear was ready to blow apart, they reused some parts that are one time use, never machined the block for the liners, did not set proper liner protrusions, they were all over the map, and a few other things... Certified Cummins repair facility.

You have been warned... LOL! If you want to join the club, have at it, I just hope you have deep pockets. Listen to the advice given here, the bad in frame club is not the club the cool kids fight to join.

Your truck sounds a lot like mine, it sat for a long period, had lot rot, needed an in frame, etc. I would say just on the mechanical side, if you can do most of the work, figure around $80,000 +/- to get her road worthy. I have easily twice that much in my 2008 ProStar, and then figure in lost income, I would say close to a half a million in costs and loses.

These are not the trucks of our grandfather, shoot some ether in the air intake and go to work, those days are LOOOOOOOOOOONG GONE.

You sir did not buy a truck, you opened a can of worms.