12.7 Series 60- Issues after rebuild

Had a guy try and tell me one time that because I had one of the interaxle shafts replaced I would need to balance the other one and the main drive shaft because they'd be out of phase and off balance with the new shaft. Dude, as soon as the truck makes a turn or slips a wheel the shafts aren't going to be aligned to each other anymore anyways lol.

 

I know nothin about series 60 Detroits. Are the rear mounts bolted to the engine block or are they just like everything else and bolted to the clutch housing?

Maybe the bolts going into that mounting surface were snapped off or stripped specially if the housing is aluminum causing them to be loose but visually hard to tell they are.

High powered Air tools destroy more stuff if in the wrong hands.

 

The brackets are bolted into the aluminum front half of the housing, (or rear cover). Using 2 shallow head bolts.

 

Glad you noticed that. The ones I spoke of had a fair amount of vibration around 1500 RPM building air. They were not so bad on the road. Just thanking he could have multiple problems.

 

Maybe should have tested them out by giving them a small job or two to make sure thier work was good before giving them so much to screw you on.

 

Totally possible but it makes sense to focus on the engine/mounts/pulleys before opening Pandora's driveline vibration box.

 

I don't know the back story but what I meant was that it's a good idea to take your truck somewhere you're scouting and have them do minor repairs and see how it goes and work them up from there. So much trust and money given to unvetted losers. Could have even took it to a dealer and had just the bare essentials handled while scoping out other shops.

I've been burned too by Pittsburgh Power. I didn't vet them because of their reputation and it costed me...DEARLY. My truck entered in running workable condition. Two weeks later it left in pieces, unworkable and was towed a couple hundred miles away. All this happened when the market was hot too. I was down for months. Even the second shop had to redo the job because it was still puking coolant.

22k for the rebuild, 1200 for the tow and over 10 weeks of lost revenue in a really hot market. I learned the hard way that's for sure.