Cm 870 head being replaced

[Rawze]

With regularly scheduled tune-up work on the egr system, a bypass oil filter to keep the soot at bay, they tend to run well. I know of lots of people who make it a million miles with the entire system operational when cared for properly.

Trouble is that these engine are not maintenance free like most would expect. A person cannot just drive one and wait for a check engine light to tell them something is wrong. By the time they start to show up, it is already far beyond any sort of easily maintainable state. - It takes a lot of up-front preventative maint. work along the way at regular intervals before the CEL lights set in to keep them healthy.

It can be done + kept healthy,.. but all the preventative measures and practices have to be done early in the trucks life,... not after it has close to half a million on it already and has been severely neglected.

The red engine is no better whatsoever than any other brand / make of other engine in its same year and emissions class. -- They just happened to be the easiest to work on yourself, and this is its only advantage vs. something else.