New problems after inframe from cummins

[Rawze]

so they re-used the head on a 500k mile old engine?

Boy did you waste a lot of time and money there.

No counter-bore, nothing to extend the life of the engine whatsoever... and that 559 code ... did anyone pull the fuel pump apart and see if the cam is chewed up?

Will it pass a rail leak test?

The OEM shops are the biggest rip-offs and worst quality places to take an engine to to get rebuilt any more these days.

- That thing is not going to last for s#it now. Give 1, maybe 2 years tops and it will be coming apart again to do it all over again... Head gasket + fretted liner, worn out head,.. you name it. Literally, all they replaced was the parts to stop the oil consumption on an engine. This is not an inframe.. This is not going to extend its overall life at all .. this is a patched up mess!.


You paid $23,700 for only an overhaul kit (the bottom end parts only) .. and got completely taken!. - Most shops would have done that same half-arssed, hurried job for about $12-13k instead of an actual proper inframe that extends the life of the engine.


You don't have any case against that OEM ... They are simply morons and are going to take you for all your worth because they half-arssed the whole job + Now have set you and themselves up to milk you for tens of thousands more to clean up their own incompetence. This is how they are trained and that is what they are good at... emptying your wallet in exchange for the least amount of effort to get yo out their door and onto the next victim!. That is what the $9,000 in labor alone paid for,... NOT AN INFRAME.. but a botch job repair for oil consumption only!!

- Hope you got another $15k or so saved up,.. your going to need it soon!. -- Personally, I would tell ya to pull that enigne back down while the overhaul kit is still good.new ,.. yank it out and start over ... spend the money for a new head, counter-boring, gear housing seals, etc .etc. and all the other parts needed at 500k miles etc... and finish the job! because all you have right now is a half-arssed hot mess that is destined for head/liner failures at this point!. Even if they did a really good job on the parts they changed,.. you might get another 200k~ish miles out of it and it will all have to happen all over again + it being a mid-tier engine with only 450HP. I was being generous ... If it were a 500hp/1850+ engine, + tall gears in the rear end, I would not even give it that long.


- this is what i see, no one has to agree.,, It saddens me because we have seen this too many times around here!.