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Hi guys,I have 2008 dodge 2500 with 3.0 engine, Engine just blow up and need be replaced,anybody knows for good used engine where can buy it..I lieve in Indianapolis.Thnx
Basically oiling issues.My buddies 08 2500 with the 3.0 $h!t the bed last year. What's up with the engines that is causing failure?
Sheesh, with those prices it might be worthwhile importing from Europe. Van Kronenburg in the Netherlands has rebuilt OM642 longblocks for sale on German Ebay for ~3500€ without VAT (its 4250€ for us in Euroland). Edit: There is also a 750€ core charge (~$820 US) which obviously would be paid.There are several floating about with lowish miles. (All over the board up to 250,000 miles!)
A non Bluetech engine is on average about $8000 plus shipping with 85,000 miles on it..
The one I saw was located in Virgina. in a wrecking yard
Need a long block?
Then a rebuilt from Sprinter Warehouse in Texas is about the same with a warranty if you want to put some elbow grease into building a complete drop in unit from a Long Block.
Dennis
ps
Time to get up to looking at a tier 5 re-power package with these prices staying steady.
D
Sounds also like a reason NOT to run a 30-weight oil like the Mercedes dealers are now doing.May be time to fit oil pressure gauges to your motor before it gets to the grenade miles. this is the approach we are trying in Australia with our exploding motors. The suspect component is the oil pressure relief valve, Eric.
I have an inquiry with those guys the moment.Sheesh, with those prices it might be worthwhile importing from Europe. Van Kronenburg in the Netherlands has rebuilt OM642 longblocks for sale on German Ebay for ~3500€ without VAT (its 4250€ for us in Euroland). Edit: There is also a 750€ core charge (~$820 US) which obviously would be paid.
Of course if you get it shipped to the US you shouldn't be charged VAT afaik, so it would be about $4670 US as your starting price (with the core charge penalty included) before shipping a palleted 3.0 and taxes/duties from the US Gubbermint.
Another plus is that everyone in the Netherlands speaks better English than 90% of native English speakers, so there's no language barrier.
If we turn this into an oil thread..........Wow, you guys are such a positive bunch...lol. I own a V6 Honda Ridgeline with over a 100,000 miles and use 5W 20 Honda oil. All maintenance as per the maintenance minder. I expect to get twice that mileage. I tow with it, constantly overload it and make it work for me, it's a work truck. Now if MB is telling me to use one of their approved oils, I was using Mobil 1 5w 40 but now I've switched to the 30 weight, then that's what I'll do. I follow the maintenance minder and do my own oil and fuel filter changes. I currently have 56K on my motor, I expect to get five times that while keeping up to date on maintenance. I'm running a class C MH. My experience is if you maintain it, it will respond in kind.
So Dennis.......new business opportunities you ........now .....you own a Sprinter salvage yard :Basically oiling issues.
I have four Sprinters in my yard abandoned by their owners due to engine failure. .
Cheers Dennis
So basically if some form of apparent authority (real or not) says "jump", you say "how high?" Good to know.Wow, you guys are such a positive bunch...lol. I own a V6 Honda Ridgeline with over a 100,000 miles and use 5W 20 Honda oil. All maintenance as per the maintenance minder. I expect to get twice that mileage. I tow with it, constantly overload it and make it work for me, it's a work truck. Now if MB is telling me to use one of their approved oils, I was using Mobil 1 5w 40 but now I've switched to the 30 weight, then that's what I'll do. I follow the maintenance minder and do my own oil and fuel filter changes. I currently have 56K on my motor, I expect to get five times that while keeping up to date on maintenance. I'm running a class C MH. My experience is if you maintain it, it will respond in kind.
Wow, you guys are such a positive bunch...lol. I own a V6 Honda Ridgeline with over a 100,000 miles and use 5W 20 Honda oil. All maintenance as per the maintenance minder. I expect to get twice that mileage. I tow with it, constantly overload it and make it work for me, it's a work truck. Now if MB is telling me to use one of their approved oils, I was using Mobil 1 5w 40 but now I've switched to the 30 weight, then that's what I'll do. I follow the maintenance minder and do my own oil and fuel filter changes. I currently have 56K on my motor, I expect to get five times that while keeping up to date on maintenance. I'm running a class C MH. My experience is if you maintain it, it will respond in kind.
I actually have a statistic for NAS aka NAFTA NCV3 high mileage Sprinter engines.If we turn this into an oil thread..........
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Can't argue with fleet costs, makes total sense. On the tank thing, I know a little about that, 60-70 tons of steel going 40 mph cross country you'd be a little worn out to after 400 hours. That's why most tank transporters have the same engine as the tank, spare engine available. Tigers were a support weapon more than a tank, the Panzer was the tank of choice. Sherman's had an exponential mechanical failure rate as well as were sitting ducks for Panzers until the gun upgrade. Russians had over 20 million killed in WWII. Back to topic, crappy MB engines[/B]
The issue is?????
Wait for it---!!!!!!
What is the cost to maintain it so that it doesn't break/fail? So that it will using your statement:- respond in kind
I can think of numerous vehicles that are "heavy" on the maintenance.
Like quite a few Ferraris, VW Phaeton, the Landrover (Flandie) Freelander 2.5 V6 $1500 timing belt jobs every 40,000 miles else the engine grenades! Just to name a few latter day stuff!
BMW variable valve timing jobs every 100,000 miles. again come to mind ($2000 job)
Challenger Mk1 Battle tank with Leyland L60 engine change out the Engine every 400 engine hours.I kid you not!
AND of course topped off by the famous Tiger Panzer tank which needed lots of TLC & truck loads off gasoline. All whooped by floods of cheap arsed American and Russian built tanks. In fact one of the cheap arsed Russian tactical units could blow it to smithereens if it got into its sights! So in short nice with lost of ownership pride but it was like a shark once stopped swimming it was dead meat and didn't need maintenance
So to the private ownership world having a high maintenance vehicle for personal business and pleasure is very nice, a bit like having a high maintenance trophy wife I suppose!
BUT In the dog eat dog "whirled" of commercial vehicles and transporting "stuff" from one place to another cost and fleet availability are big factors in cost per mile. One of those parts of the pie chart in operating costs is a thing called "Maintenance" . Do you have a pie chart on those vehicles you run?
It can make or break an operation, and it why bean counters run successful fleets and have pie charts and like kind to monitor costs.
When operating costs get too high, mantra dump the crap stop the bleeding!
Dennis