vitola1971
Junior Member
Looking for peoples opinions on what to do here.
I was in Hamilton coming from London (200km), cruising down the highway and truck suddenly started knocking. The knocking started fairly loud but deep at first then quickly became much quieter, cant really hear it outside of vehicle but sitting in drivers seat you can hear it. Drove back to London and by the time I got here the knocking was all but gone, next day I picked up oil and filter, swear knocking was completely gone, pulled into garage and did drain and fill, sure enough fine metal particles in filter (at this point I wasn't even sure it was a bearing knock or say funky injector missfueling issue). Refilled and fired up and in the garage, you can hear the knock but just barely. All this kinda tells me this motor is very rebuildable and I'm trying to decide which route to go.
I can pull the motor myself and bring it to rebuilders in toronto, there are companies there who rebuild ecodiesels, there's machine shops in london but seems nobody doing rebuilds so not sure I want to go through the trouble locally. Pulling the motor myself has the advantages of pulling intake and cleaning, replacing turbo coolant line and doing all the belt pullies and belt while it's out. The one stop goat shop seems to charge $2,000 for an engine swap which seems very fair and I have yet to contact him about rebuilding, he doesn't like emails and I can't hear very well over the phone
. It's a 2015 longhorn limited with 147,000km, air suspension etc, top of the line Leer topper and bed rug, completely gone over and newer cooper discoverer at3 tires, actually a nice truck. Too valuable to scrap but not valuable enough to justify a new motor. Another option is to see if I can list it for sale in the states, don't know if the american sites allow adverts from canada, with exchange rates as they are, high used truck values in states and americans paying far far less to rebuild this motor than we pay up here it may be a win win if I sell it down there.
I really don't want to go through all the trouble of yanking the motor myself but there are advantages also, I can clean up engine bay, maybe some maintenance items in there are much easier without a motor and I can inspect things and address any issues spotted. She's a hard decision.
Market value without topper seems to be around $25,000 CAD (likely worth $20,000 trade in), I can buy a rebuilt motor for $7,500 CAD, I'm thinking I can get my motor rebuilt for like $4,000 CAD but this is a guess, hard to get a quote on such things. If I do removal/instal myself I'm likely needing $600 in equipment which I can resell + lost time or assume $2,000 one stop goat shop but I would have to get the truck flat bedded there.
any views would be greatly apreciated, thanks guys.
I was in Hamilton coming from London (200km), cruising down the highway and truck suddenly started knocking. The knocking started fairly loud but deep at first then quickly became much quieter, cant really hear it outside of vehicle but sitting in drivers seat you can hear it. Drove back to London and by the time I got here the knocking was all but gone, next day I picked up oil and filter, swear knocking was completely gone, pulled into garage and did drain and fill, sure enough fine metal particles in filter (at this point I wasn't even sure it was a bearing knock or say funky injector missfueling issue). Refilled and fired up and in the garage, you can hear the knock but just barely. All this kinda tells me this motor is very rebuildable and I'm trying to decide which route to go.
I can pull the motor myself and bring it to rebuilders in toronto, there are companies there who rebuild ecodiesels, there's machine shops in london but seems nobody doing rebuilds so not sure I want to go through the trouble locally. Pulling the motor myself has the advantages of pulling intake and cleaning, replacing turbo coolant line and doing all the belt pullies and belt while it's out. The one stop goat shop seems to charge $2,000 for an engine swap which seems very fair and I have yet to contact him about rebuilding, he doesn't like emails and I can't hear very well over the phone
. It's a 2015 longhorn limited with 147,000km, air suspension etc, top of the line Leer topper and bed rug, completely gone over and newer cooper discoverer at3 tires, actually a nice truck. Too valuable to scrap but not valuable enough to justify a new motor. Another option is to see if I can list it for sale in the states, don't know if the american sites allow adverts from canada, with exchange rates as they are, high used truck values in states and americans paying far far less to rebuild this motor than we pay up here it may be a win win if I sell it down there.I really don't want to go through all the trouble of yanking the motor myself but there are advantages also, I can clean up engine bay, maybe some maintenance items in there are much easier without a motor and I can inspect things and address any issues spotted. She's a hard decision.
Market value without topper seems to be around $25,000 CAD (likely worth $20,000 trade in), I can buy a rebuilt motor for $7,500 CAD, I'm thinking I can get my motor rebuilt for like $4,000 CAD but this is a guess, hard to get a quote on such things. If I do removal/instal myself I'm likely needing $600 in equipment which I can resell + lost time or assume $2,000 one stop goat shop but I would have to get the truck flat bedded there.
any views would be greatly apreciated, thanks guys.
