Fresh in frame, firing her up at Rawze's for 1st time!

Really? LOL! I hope I get there. So far, so good. When did you last rebuild a motor? And how is she doing? This was my first attempt, and I own IT.

 

Hey, he is a stick in the mud. I have photos! LOL!

 

I had to go back to you... Honestly, you need to call Cummins, PACCAR, Volvo and International. I am sure they could use your wisdom and put it to good work... Oh, Caterpillar too... They kind of blew it.

 

Tooting my horn? #### straight I am TOOTING MY HORN! I tore it down, rebuilt it and drove it roughly 1000 miles and it made it in one piece and I doubled my fuel mileage to boot!

As far as your "mechanic" or "Manufacturer" comment...

The "mechanic" that in framed my motor 25 months ago to the day had twenty + years under his belt. Licensed Cummins shop, and he was a certified Cummins mechanic with certificates out the rear end.

I asked them to machine the block, to set the liners, per Cummins, he did not, just threw the liners in. The injector and valve cam, call for Loc-Tite 609, that was not used, as the injector cam gear skipped a tooth and being a split gear was going to fail in the front structure. When that failed, which it was near doing when the bolts and springs broke lose, the motor was toast. Looking at the bearings, the motor was dry started, no pre-lube as per Cummins. Again, a Cummins certified "mechanic". This same "mechanic" told me when they started my motor for the first time it sounded like a rod was going to come out of the side of the block, black smoke everywhere...

Here is when I started my fresh in frame...

The first turn of the key... 20 seconds if that...



The second attempt... Hear any rod knock, black smoke? The knock you are hearing is the gear train and the air compressor interacting. The knock everyone hears in a Cummins is not the air compressor, it is the front structure gears.



No smoke. Drives like a raped ape.

 

She runs like a raped ape. I filled up in Chattanooga, so far I have put 700 miles on the truck, she is right at 3/4 on the fuel gauge. Normally I would be at 1/2 a tank. The computer said 7.2 mpg going down, coming back the computer said 11.4 mpg. The tune is the 450hp 1650 torque with some modifications to the turbo and fueling tables. She jumps off the line, and no it will not smoke the tires. Rawze can do some crazy stuff if you let him, the man is a programing genius and knows these motors.

 

That is what these guys do not understand, you get a great tune, you can have a tiger by the tail. And if strong enough, you will smoke a tire.