Where is everyone #5

If the truck is decent, a fella could do the cam/followers, along with a basic inframe kit, new front cover with acc drive bushing, and new water pump. This would take care of all major oil leaks and still shouldn’t have 20 grand in the whole truck with a fresh motor and trans. Hard to beat a deal like that on a big hood KW.

 

That rockwell/meritor is a strong trans. But for the life of me I can't shift one either. The spicer I dont like the shift rails and it dont fit on a trans jack worth a darn. Eaton is fine even a metric 10 for now.

 

Question for you Steve,
Does your AMG have individual coil packs? And if so, are they a weekly maintenance item like BMW?? I've gotten where I can change one out on my M6 in the amount of time it takes the gas pump to fill the tank. Carry a spare in the glove box along with the 10mm socket, flathead screwdriver, star bit and OBD dongle. I've had it checked over head to toe a few times now at a couple different "expert" BMW independent shops, everything is supposedly good and they say it's kind of normal for my motor. Not a big deal but kinda annoying.

 

My son's 328 eats coil packs also. I couldn't figure out why either. I used to deliver BMWs and have asked a lot of techs about it and never got a straight answer on why it eats them.

 

I don’t know why a Meritor is that way but they’ll sure make a fella feel like it’s his first day every day.

 

Saw this in cold spring ny Monday morning.

 

A little bit of Texas this time of the year about 21 years ago.

 

Supposedly there is an aftermarket coil pack that they guarantee will not fail like the stock units. However......at $399 EACH, that would be over $4k for my car. I have tried the factory BMW coils at almost $120 each and the no-name Amazon ones at $29 each. The makings, numbers, everything is exactly identical between the factory and Amazon ones and the Amazon units seem to have the same or even better life. I've already had to replace the very first factory one that went in almost a year ago, haven't had an Amazon one fail yet except for one DOA which Amazon replaced. I'm not the smartest person but I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express once and I have a calculator so by my calculations, I can replace 137 Amazon coils before I've saved a penny buying the super-duper, last forever units or 4 for every OEM unit.

Kind of like rebuilding the injectors on my 6.0 Ford, first one took hours (actually a couple days) but by the time I traded the truck off I could tear the top off the motor, pop an injector out, re-build it and have it back running before Saturday mornings coffee pot became empty. Of course by the time I traded it off all 8 had been done..........

 

I agree 100%. I can't shift one to save my life. Worn out or new.

 

A head in dire need of new valve seats?

It's just so spongy feeling going into gears like the sticks not connected to the tower