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Originally Posted by Red Sleeper
You’re letting the old timers ruffle your feathers. Keep your cool and don’t gloat so much. You’ll fit in just fine.
Solid questions with good answers.
Is this a stock rebuild or performance build?
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This build is a durability build. Goal is for a million miles work horse. No performance mods what so ever. Pure reliability.
I tow about a 8-10k trailer daily almost during season. So, can't afford down time due to truck.
Mahle/clevite parts only with Cummins parts when I can afford or thought was imperative (oil pump, head gasket, etc).
Had the valve seats staked during head job. I'll be opening the ring gaps to the widest spec they allow. I've heard rings breaking are very common due to the tolerances being too tight.
I'm installing a 12v oil priming system. Can get oil pressure before starting truck/after oil change. Stole idea from another builder.
Deleting the trans fluid cooler (one on the block on driver side). Also installing the thermostat delete kit.
New set of new Bosch injectors.
Some gauges...EGT gauges, rail, trans, and oil pressure.
Had the crank balanced, will be balancing piston assembly myself.
Stainless steel core plugs, and installing threaded plugs in the head. Also will be installing threaded plugs in the oil galleys, gotta find what size they are.
Have a fleece coolant bypass for the rear main freeze plug to prevent any issues. Im not going to bypass the coolant though. Going to plug the hole on the bypass. From my understanding it only blows out due to high revs found in performance builds. Mine will rarely see over 3000 rpms so not an issue.
Will be installing fuel filters as well. I'd like to have the stock filter (5 micron I think), and then 2, 1 micron filters. I still have to find/buy those.
And some other things, ball joints, brake kits, etc.
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