It is wild how much a decent Modified Duramax will cost you

"jkm7680" (jkm7680)
06/01/2018 at 17:55 • Filed to: None

Like this ‘03 with 67,000 miles on it. For $27,000. To be fair, it does have a lot of other goodies on it though, including EFI live and all that good must-have diesel shit. Love the wheel and tire combo though.

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Sampsonite24-Earth's Least Likeliest Hero > jkm7680
06/01/2018 at 18:04

too much chrome, the proper amount of chrome should be none.

jkm7680 > Sampsonite24-Earth's Least Likeliest Hero
06/01/2018 at 18:24

I support controlled amounts of chrome.

My bird IS the word > jkm7680
06/01/2018 at 18:57

The bs surrounding trucks makes me just want to get a milsurp humvee instead. I got an ok from the ‘rents!

nFamousCJ - Keeper of Stringbean, Gengars and a Deezul > jkm7680
06/01/2018 at 19:14

Sure it’s clean and low miles but everything is still 25 years old. 25 year old bushings, seals, etc. Those can be addressed easily but not when paying a premium. However I would offer $17k to their $27k asking. They’ll laugh, I’ll laugh, I’ll leave.

Junkrat aka Rick Sanchez: Fury Road Edition > jkm7680
06/01/2018 at 19:15

Have you seen the prices for the Cummins’s’’s’s’s’s’? Older with way more miles for the same price as this Chevy. These year Chevy’s are popular because they have minimal emissions equipment.

winterlegacy, here 'till the end > jkm7680
06/01/2018 at 21:15

The problem with modded diesel pickups is that dudebros charge ridiculous prices for what amounts to very basic/entry level mods at the engine level combined with stupid appearance changes.

A truck is meant for work, don’t bling it out.

KusabiSensei - Captain of the Toronto Maple Leafs > jkm7680
06/01/2018 at 21:35

Wait....$27,000 for an LB7? Are you freaking kidding me?

You want that body style for that money? LBZ or GTFAC.

(And here I am with an unmodified LLY with 340K miles on it)

KusabiSensei - Captain of the Toronto Maple Leafs > nFamousCJ - Keeper of Stringbean, Gengars and a Deezul
06/01/2018 at 21:43

It’s an LB7. That means when the fuel injectors go (and they will), valve covers have to come off.

And since I’m not a fan of modifying trucks (as it generally makes them worse for towing and actual use), this is probably at $14K unless they have documented all 8 injectors having been recently replaced with new common rail to injector lines. Then it’s maybe $16K.

KusabiSensei - Captain of the Toronto Maple Leafs > Junkrat aka Rick Sanchez: Fury Road Edition
06/01/2018 at 21:45

True up until MY2006. The GMT800 trucks that are most desirable are the 2006 LBZ trucks (6 speed Allison 1000, no emissions equipment, most of the kinks worked out)

LLY trucks if you aren’t going to tune them or modify them. They can run hot, but you either have a hot LLY or you don’t. I’ve seen guys use the LBZ radiator to help keep an LLY cool.

nFamousCJ - Keeper of Stringbean, Gengars and a Deezul > KusabiSensei - Captain of the Toronto Maple Leafs
06/01/2018 at 21:56

Thats good to know. I’m diesel truck shopping , primarily been looking at Ford’s so head studding and such, but good to know about the LB7 and injectors. May have saved me some headaches and a lot of money!

jkm7680 > nFamousCJ - Keeper of Stringbean, Gengars and a Deezul
06/02/2018 at 01:37

Uhhh 2003?

nFamousCJ - Keeper of Stringbean, Gengars and a Deezul > jkm7680
06/02/2018 at 06:32

I mathed wrong and for some reason saw 93 instead of 03.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > jkm7680
06/02/2018 at 12:45

Think of how much it might be worth without the ugly bling wheels and the tail light obscurers. Does it come with spare injectors?

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > KusabiSensei - Captain of the Toronto Maple Leafs
06/02/2018 at 12:46

My neighbor is on his fourth set of injectors. It’s a $7k job, from what I understand. Inexcusable.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > KusabiSensei - Captain of the Toronto Maple Leafs
06/02/2018 at 12:47

I don’t know about your alphabet soup, but the dealer is probably counting on a customer not knowing the alphabet soup, either.

KusabiSensei - Captain of the Toronto Maple Leafs > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
06/02/2018 at 13:36

In five years, GM had done three revisions of the Duramax. Those are the Regular Production Option codes that are on the glove box sticker.

GM people, for some reason always speak in RPO codes.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > KusabiSensei - Captain of the Toronto Maple Leafs
06/02/2018 at 19:02

My neighbor speaks in $7k injector replacement: he’s on set number 4.

KusabiSensei - Captain of the Toronto Maple Leafs > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
06/02/2018 at 19:08

And to think I bought my 2005 Duramax (where the injectors are outside the valve covers, LLY engine) for $8500 or so.

Two sets of injectors on an LB7 engine and you could have bought my truck.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > KusabiSensei - Captain of the Toronto Maple Leafs
06/02/2018 at 19:10

His truck is has toolboxes on the back and getting another truck was probably too much headache. One of the sets he did himself, but I think the injectors themselves were on the order of $400 apiece.

KusabiSensei - Captain of the Toronto Maple Leafs > nFamousCJ - Keeper of Stringbean, Gengars and a Deezul
06/02/2018 at 19:20

Yeah, also the oil cooler/EGR cooler setup on the Navistar 6.0L engine...

That 6.0 and the later 6.4 caused Ford to drop Navistar as an engine supplier, and build the 6.7L turbodiesel in house.

nFamousCJ - Keeper of Stringbean, Gengars and a Deezul > KusabiSensei - Captain of the Toronto Maple Leafs
06/02/2018 at 22:30

Wow that’s enlightening.

Saracen > KusabiSensei - Captain of the Toronto Maple Leafs
06/05/2018 at 14:36

Same with a 7.3. Except I’ll also have to remove all the turbo piping.

I’m not looking forward to doing the injectors..