What's my solution..

hjpcummins · Nov 9, 2014

I'm not engine master by no means
But these pictures tell me
Ran hot
Low oil
High mileage
Was told 110k miles if this is true.. then wtf. Not to happy at this point. Iv seen ls series engine ran hard with low oil for long periods of time. So I'm not completely certain I'm fuct.

I'm willing to clean all this up and take a wack at it. My question is how do I go about cleaning the bottom of block out. And what do yall make of this???

hjpcummins · Nov 9, 2014

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Just cut the oil filter open.. it wasn't pretty and there was sludge in the bottom

bigs10blazer · Nov 9, 2014

110k could be correct, penzoil used to do that to engines, clean the best you can,, might be wise to re ring and bearing it to ,
problem could have been in a vehicle that was never ran very much down the high way and poor maintenance

rock mafia · Nov 9, 2014

I thought the inside of my junky mockup engine looked bad.

I'd want my money back. We've had the pans off 100k LS engines and they looked nothing like that. If you can't get your money back, they are easy to tear down and put back together. No way I'd waste my time running that unless I just wanted to blow it up.

infamous1 · Nov 9, 2014

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Yeah full a teardown and a hot vat will clean it up and new rings and bearings at least.....I wouldn't risk running it either

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hjpcummins · Nov 9, 2014

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Considering another decent 5.3 can be picked up for 700-1000$ is it worth a tear down vs having a parts motor

jmh78 · Nov 9, 2014

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If you decide to run it, get some oven cleaner spary it down let it sit 10-15 minutes rinse it clean, blow it out good, install pan and a good high detergent oil and change the filter frequently. Seen worse engines out of the salvage yard go for another 100k miles.

jmh78 · Nov 9, 2014

I would not spend the $ for bearings and gaskets on a 5.3.

grcthird · Nov 9, 2014

This is what engines that have the cheap ass oil and filter change at 7-10k miles look like. It is not too far gone to save and run.

kmcminn · Nov 9, 2014

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hjpcummins said:
Considering another decent 5.3 can be picked up for 700-1000$ is it worth a tear down vs having a parts motor

Where you live at. You can get a 5.3 for half that in North AL.

hjpcummins · Nov 9, 2014

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Dallas ga, (atl)

Thanks for the insight, I'll be looking more into this tomorrow. Just out of curiosity does the 6.0s use same engine harness

rock mafia · Nov 10, 2014

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hjpcummins said:
Just out of curiosity does the 6.0s use same engine harness

Yes. If they are around the same year.

hjpcummins · Nov 10, 2014

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The heads look decent.. I'm pulling the motor today hopefully.

Jhouser · Nov 10, 2014

grcthird said:
This is what engines that have the cheap ass oil and filter change at 7-10k miles look like. It is not too far gone to save and run.

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hjpcummins · Nov 10, 2014

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And the story continues, and of course the previous owner will not respond to me

Looks like I may be in the market for a new motor.

And I what I can't get wrapped around my head is.. a performance cam was installed by previous owner, new plugs , heads seam to be re surfaced since the valves are numbered and deck is clean... why in the hell would you drop $ into a motor in this condition?????? Why!

yankster · Nov 11, 2014

I've been burned on used engines twice. If I ever buy another I'll have to see it in the vehicle and confirm the mileage, and hear it run before I drop the cash. Every engine on a skid seems to have 60k miles but every used truck the same year has 200k.

hjpcummins · Nov 11, 2014

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Lol you nailed it!

hjpcummins · Nov 11, 2014

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Bit I'm on the hunt for a 5.3 or 6.0. Anybody got info on what years my harness and ecm will work on

Jhouser · Nov 11, 2014

Take it to an engine machine shop and have them run it through there parts washer and put new cam bearing and freeze plugs in check the bore's put all new bearing in it and rock on. Its just sludge build up from people not changing their oil and using Cheap oil's... Amsoil is always my go to oil.

TBItoy · Nov 11, 2014

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Jhouser said:
Take it to an engine machine shop and have them run it through there parts washer and put new cam bearing and freeze plugs in check the bore's put all new bearing in it and rock on. Its just sludge build up from people not changing their oil and using Cheap oil's... Amsoil is always my go to oil.

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I'd do this and have the confidence of a new engine, rather than depend on a used engine