Goofyexponent
Mentally Unstable..
My girlfriend's brother just bought a 2002 ram quad cab. It has the 4.7 with about 141000 kms on it. The PO was not very nice to this truck.
From what we can tell the oil was never changed. He had to change it once a week for about a month to get the crap out of the motor. It knocks during cold starts, puffs white and blue smoke and sounds like a smashed can of @$$holes.
His mechanic thinks the head gaskets are on the way out at the least, and thinks the heads are warped. They compression tested the rad and before it got ANY pressure it was blowing pressure out the ying yang. The truck uses about a gallon of coolant in a week.
What we are thinking is to rebuild it. A used engine around here goes for about $3500 and you do not know what you are getting into.
would it be worth a rebuild? Maybe a Hemi swap? any ideas?
From what we can tell the oil was never changed. He had to change it once a week for about a month to get the crap out of the motor. It knocks during cold starts, puffs white and blue smoke and sounds like a smashed can of @$$holes.
His mechanic thinks the head gaskets are on the way out at the least, and thinks the heads are warped. They compression tested the rad and before it got ANY pressure it was blowing pressure out the ying yang. The truck uses about a gallon of coolant in a week.
What we are thinking is to rebuild it. A used engine around here goes for about $3500 and you do not know what you are getting into.
would it be worth a rebuild? Maybe a Hemi swap? any ideas?