Unfortunate report on new Ram

bsbeedub wrote:

ls1mike wrote:
I am gonna sound like a D-bag here but some of you guys are hand wringers

It was a head replacement. There are 6.0 Fords on here that are running around that had the body off to do head gaskests and studs, rebuilt rearends on trucks, rebuilt transmissions, Injector replacements on diesels, Cam replacments on AFM/DOD engines.

We are talking about a head replacement on a small block push rod engine. Day one stuff. They don't even have to set lash on the valves. They are self adjusting.

OP put it on the floor, it will be fine. The Hemi head replacement is not much different than an LS based motor. I did heads and cam in my garage on the WS6 60,000 miles ago. 500 11 sec 1/4 mile passes later and not one issue.

This is all new to me. I know enough about engines to be dangerous and that was back in the late 70’s. I’m envious of the knowledge and skill that some of you have.
No d-bag and thanks for the honesty but I hope you understand my point of view. Very limited knowledge and what seems to me to be open heart surgery!

I get it, I think the electronics scare a lot of people. Once you get past that stuff is the same (heads, intake, fuel rail, No **** carb to mess with, no timing, no distributor to mess up put it back together turn the key Vroom easier to me than something from the 70's. Minus the DOD/AFM but that isn't difficult it would look much like any pushrod engine you are used to. I didn't mean you so much as people arguing about it. Your truck and I understand being nervous, but the "Hemi" has been around awhile now and head replacement should not be a problem for a tech at a dealership.

Maybe I trivialize as I fix Submarines for a living and ripping apart an engine is easy compared to that and you certainly are not submerging that truck...at least I hope not. :)