Head Removed for Headgasket repair, cylinder pics

Head Removed for Headgasket repair, cylinder pics

03-20-2006, 10:52 PM

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Bobcat698

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Head Removed for Headgasket repair, cylinder pics

Lets hear some opinions please. Truck has 203k miles

Travis G (TDR member) helped me pull the head off on Saturday after I found my coolant had turned black Thursday

Here are some pictures of the cylinders and a picture of Cylinder #6 that has me and Travis a bit concerned.

Consensus is scored cylinder... Which I cannot do anything about right now $$ constraints.. (Just spent ~$8000 on turbo, injectors and a tranny on a truck that I still owe $$ on

)

I plan on getting the head o-ringed and throwing it back and and hoping for the best.

Here is something I plan to do though. It is my understanding that on the larger trucks equipped with the 5.9L Cummins, a coolant line is connected at the back of the block (where a freeze plug is placed on Ram pickups) that runs back to the radiator, making the cooling system a flow-through system rather than dead-ending at the back of the motor, therefore keeping the rear cylinders cooler. I plan on buying the kit from Cummins and installing it while I have it torn apart.
Has anyone done this?

Let me know what you think.

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