What's wrong with a short block? Better price, paid about $900 or, a little
more intimit work with your DAk and IIRC, my short block reman 3.9 came
from Jasper? might have been Marshall, with 3 years or 100,000 miles. Of
course I had it done it at dealership outo f my pocket for a total of around
$3k. But I was able to go in and help them on my days off. The only thing
I suggest is if you go the short block version, take your heads someplace
and get a vavle job/cleaning while they are off.
HTH,
Bill Day
----- Original Message -----
From: "Brett Forehand" <brett4hand@hotmail.com>
To: <dakota-truck@dakota-truck.net>
Sent: Friday, October 22, 2004 9:32 AM
Subject: Re: DML: 92 V6 woes...
>
> Zach wrote:
> >ok, specs. 1992 Dakota 3.9L A500 2WD, around 170K.
> Truck is sportin' a nice PowerDemon S tranny with OEM type Dacco
> converter
> that was installed about 3K ago. Lately, my mpg has been
> dropping and
> dropping slowly and the truck is starting to drive like crap. I
> have been
> able to pull 20 mpg out of this truck all the way past 160K and
> now it's
> down to 16 mpg no matter what I do. And it sucks, a month ago
> it was 16.5
> mpg so it's just dropping and dropping. At some stops I'm
> getting a wierd
> random banging type sound from the engine compartment. I
> haven't gotten to
> duplicate, might just be something loose. But today when
> checking the
> fluids I notice there seems to be a bit of oil residue that
> seems to be
> coming from the spark plug hole on the front right cylinder from
> drivers
> perspective. Any help on what could be causeing this? Thanks,
> sorry so
> long.
>
>
> Zach Burcham
> 92dakotahd
> www.bsu.edu/web/ztburcham
>
> ____________________________________________________
>
> Hey Zach,
> have you checked your motor mounts lately? Mine wore out, and the motor
was
> torquing to the right *a lot*. Caused the fan to hit the overflow bottle
> for the radiator, and whacked the fan shroud a couple of times. It's
worth
> taking a look at, anyway.
>
> As far as oil in the spark plug hole, my first (optimistic) thing to check
> would be the valve cover gaskets. If they are leaking, oil can drip down
to
> the spark plugs. On the downside, you may just have oil getting past your
> rings with 170k on her.
>
> Just for giggles, I checked with a client yesterday on a Jasper engine. 3
> year, 75k warranty, $2,419 for the 318, $291 for the engine "kit", $410
for
> labor, and then there's tax. That's a whole lotta money for a 10 year old
> Dak..... but I'm kind of in your situation, too. New tranny and rear this
> year, and I'd hate to get rid of the truck!
>
> Brett Forehand
> '94 Dakota Sport CC 5.2 Auto
>
>
>
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