How much to rebuild top end of engine?

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    Jdm5jdm5 Light Load Member

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    Roughly how much does it cost to rebuild a top end
     
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    What year - make - model of engine ?

    Your question is kinda like a guy asking you at a bar how much you would pay to have sex with his wife.

    Year/Make/Model

    And than later we could get around to figuring out a price to rebuild her top end
     
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    Freighliner, cascadia, 2012, Detroit dd15
     
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    Head cracked ? How many miles?
     
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    I am a new driver. Rpms got too high. They told the guy I drive for they might have to rebuild the top end. 25,000 miles
     
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    Might want to dust off your resume
     
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    What do you mean rpms are too high and who is they?
     
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    I made a dumb mistake and i feel terrible. I was wearing headphones going down a mountain, and because i had on headphones i didn't realize the rpms getting as high as they did. The rpms got up to 2800.

    The freightliner dealer said top end might need replaced. I am going to pay for everything. Just wondering how much I'm looking at?
     
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    So what did it do that made you take it to FL?
     
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    The low oil pressure signal kept coming on. Although oil was not leaking onto the ground, it was seemingly losing oil somewhere. FL told us might need to rebuild top end. Roughly how much do you think I'm looking at, if they rebuild top end
     
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