First time poster, need a little help

[Southernkilowatt]

First post, thanks for letting me join your club. I have a 2019 Ram 2500 with the 6.4 Hemi, and so at around 175k miles I took it to the shop to have the water pump replaced. As I'm sure you know, in order to replace the water pump you have to remove the intake and several other items to get to it. Well, the tech who was working on the truck had everything completely torn down and at the end of the day realized that the drivers side window was down. According to the shop owner, the tech opened the door and hit the start button and started rolling the window up, and sprayed high pressure gasoline into the engine compartment (because he had forgotten to pull the fuel pump fuse during teardown) and the result was an engine fire that managed to pretty much melt most of the exposed wiring. They managed to get the fire out, and the shop owner took full responsibility and repaired the wiring and replaced everything that was damaged but now I'm stuck with a truck that no other shop wants to touch. (Honestly, I can't say that I blame them and I should have sued the hell out of them) but I didn't and now here we are. I'm currently at 225k miles and am having a problem with a rough idle, stalling during deceleration, and just general crappy performance until the engine gets to temperature. I put the scan tool on it this morning and I'm getting a P0028 code. Google tells me that the Intake Valve Control solenoid on bank 2 is having an issue.
From further reading I see that the intake has to be removed to access this solenoid, and that it's pretty much at the front of the engine. My question to all of you is how hard of a job is this to do, am I correct in thinking that I should just go ahead and replace it, and is this something that the average dummy like myself should even try to tackle?
Thank you for taking the time to read all this and I look forward to your response.
SK.

 

[markabby]

a freind of mine took his ford f250 to a dealer for an issues. same thing, the tech didn't check his work and the whole truck burned up because of a fuel leak. He worked out a deal with them to buy an suv for his wife and a used flat bed for him.

anyway, it sounds like you're going to have constant issues because of the fire, but, a simple AI search claims your issue might be with just a bad wire. I'd check wiring out before you begin tearing the engine back down.

but, you went from 175k miles to 225k miles and this issue popped up? I doubt the previous shop would take responsibility after driving 50k and not telling them.

 

[Papa Red]

Welcome to the forum.

Red

 

[Harley Harrold]

 

[Ritchie_Rich]

Wow. That sucks. Personally I would get it running best I can and sell it.

 

[Docwagon1776]

50k miles without incident sounds like they fixed it right the first time and now something else just wore out.

As far as how hard it is, that's a pretty relative thing. I'd say just watch some Youtube videos of people doing it and then see if that fits where you think your own skill set is.