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It can be fun to just let go and destroy an engine you know is toast ! I still remember doing that to a Dodge 318cid . It never blew up, just sadly slowed down and then froze together. Never to turn over again.So Tuesday morning I started my 15 minute trip to work...and was absiolutely not in the market for a new truck. My little 2003 Nissan Frontier, that ran like a top at 258,000 miles, has served me well for almost 16 years. I expected another 10 years, at least. A mile into my trip, some metal parts inside the engine decided they would like to get frisky with each other. I'm fairly certain a valve walked up to a piston and suggested they get a room. The piston didn't like that and split...several times.
A catastrophic engine failure has a certain ring to it....a ring that is easily recognizable. I had a couple of those rings in about 3 seconds. After the first ring, my immediate thought was that I wasn't going into that engine. There's already too much damage. My second thought was...I've always wanted to run an engine until it blowed. My frown turned upside down as I pushed the skinny pedal a little further. I actually made it to work, on about 3 out of 6 cylinders. Tough little engine she was. She couldn't take the trip home though. Now I need something else to ride in...
Older picture of my little Frontier. I'll throw a take-out engine in her and she can just take me to work from now on. The rest of the truck is in perfect shape.
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Decided a slight upgrade was in order and came home with this last night. Just wanted a little something extra to make me feel better about my little truck's unexpected failure.
2019 2500HD D-Max LTZ/Z71 Midnight edition. I don't feel so bad about my little truck now. The skinny pedal on this one works way mo' better than the one in my little truck. No guilt...only pleasure though.
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If you state has a yearly inspection it will be tough to do what it takes to really wake up the Duramax. Also you have your warrantee to watch out for. I have Kory Willis EFI live tune and four to five inch stainless from turbo straight out. Some other small program adjustments but it rocks. Best thing I think for now to keep your warrantee is just add a Edge insight CTS2 monitor that will not affect warrantee. You can monitor just about everything plus check codes. Plus if it is a minor code and it puts you in limp mode you can clear it and be off again. I through a code last month and it was a glow plug. Changed it cleared the code and off we go.
Yeah, there is that whole warranty thing to worry about. That monitor sounds very interesting. I'll go and check it out.
OK. I want this truck !
Did they get rid of the felt liners in the wheel wells? It looked like they went back to straight steel with the customer option on coatings. Nice truck. I'm waiting for the new one to come out with the seat that sniffs my farts and tells me what I'm missing in my diet.
There still using the "felt liners" which I really don't like, but it keeps the sound down which is their whole purpose. Hard to clean though. The rears are still steel though.
