Jarlaxle
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transamz9 wrote:bankcardrep1 wrote:Speaking of a suitcase full of money, I just spent 2300.00 on four injectors for my 06 Duramax. Need to be prepared for 4 more. Love it, but thinking a big block will be my next tow vehicle.
Need to learn how to do the work yourself. It's simple stuff. I just spent $1800 doing my FIL's '03 D-max and that was for all 8 with a 2 year warranty.
JUST THE INJECTORS are $400 EACH, and that's for the cheapest available ones! (Delcos are more.)
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Hannibal
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When you call the service dept at the dealership, mechanics don't answer the phone. Service reps do. There's a little more to changing diesel injectors than righty tighty, lefty loosie. Anyone who really does do their own work would know this. Plugs in the 5.4L haven't been a problem since 2008. Even before, new heads for the 5.4L are far cheaper than injectors for a newer diesel.
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These post are very old, NO ONE buying fuel for $1.47 to 1.50 a gal. today. I pull with a gas engine in a van. We full timed with a 34 foot bumper pull and a Chevy 1 ton long wheel base van with an 8.1 v/8 for 6 years and I never had a problem. The combined weight towing was 16,000# and I never got less then 9 mph, not towing it went to 13 mpg. This rig has as much torque as most of the diesels of the day (2001 - 2007). This truck and trailer were new and We never had to do anying but normal service and a set of tires for the truck. We put about 20,000 miles a year on the rig.
I am pulling a 26 foot bumper pull with a GMC Safari long body van. It has a 4.8 v/6 and I get 12mpg towing and 16 not towing. this van has over 150,000 miles on it and has never had a problem. With gas at almost $3.70 a gal and diesel at over $4.50 in most areas, I will keep my gas powered van.
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dubdub07, I do not what America you live in, but where I live in Arkansas, 17 percent hills are common. I travel all over the USA and have found these type of grades every where. Go to Cloud Croff New Mexico and do there little up hill going to the east.
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transamz9
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Jarlaxle wrote:transamz9 wrote:bankcardrep1 wrote:Speaking of a suitcase full of money, I just spent 2300.00 on four injectors for my 06 Duramax. Need to be prepared for 4 more. Love it, but thinking a big block will be my next tow vehicle.
Need to learn how to do the work yourself. It's simple stuff. I just spent $1800 doing my FIL's '03 D-max and that was for all 8 with a 2 year warranty.
JUST THE INJECTORS are $400 EACH, and that's for the cheapest available ones! (Delcos are more.)
Here is $362 a piece with free shipping and no core charge with a 2 year warranty.....![[emoticon]](http://www.coastresorts.com/sharedcontent/cfb/images/wink.gif "wink")
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transamz9
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Quote:There's a little more to changing diesel injectors than righty tighty, lefty loosie. Anyone who really does do their own work would know this.
No, really there is not. You unbolt what you need to get to them and you bolt back on what you take off, it's that simple. I do all my own work and then some. As far as the electric connections go, they will only plug back the same way.
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Jarlaxle
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And they're Chineseum, of course! Pass.
transamz9 wrote:Jarlaxle wrote:transamz9 wrote:bankcardrep1 wrote:Speaking of a suitcase full of money, I just spent 2300.00 on four injectors for my 06 Duramax. Need to be prepared for 4 more. Love it, but thinking a big block will be my next tow vehicle.
Need to learn how to do the work yourself. It's simple stuff. I just spent $1800 doing my FIL's '03 D-max and that was for all 8 with a 2 year warranty.
JUST THE INJECTORS are $400 EACH, and that's for the cheapest available ones! (Delcos are more.)
Here is $362 a piece with free shipping and no core charge with a 2 year warranty.....
2006 duramax injectors
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transamz9
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Quote:And they're Chineseum, of course! Pass.
HUH? Show me where you will get Bosch injectors with a 2 year warranty for that kind of money.
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transamz9 wrote:Quote:And they're Chineseum, of course! Pass.
HUH? Show me where you will get Bosch injectors with a 2 year warranty for that kind of money.
I can get genuine Bosch for my 01 Cummins for $69 ea. Oh how I love the simplicity of mechanical injectors!
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transamz9 wrote:Jarlaxle wrote:transamz9 wrote:bankcardrep1 wrote:Speaking of a suitcase full of money, I just spent 2300.00 on four injectors for my 06 Duramax. Need to be prepared for 4 more. Love it, but thinking a big block will be my next tow vehicle.
Need to learn how to do the work yourself. It's simple stuff. I just spent $1800 doing my FIL's '03 D-max and that was for all 8 with a 2 year warranty.
JUST THE INJECTORS are $400 EACH, and that's for the cheapest available ones! (Delcos are more.)
Here is $362 a piece with free shipping and no core charge with a 2 year warranty.....
2006 duramax injectors
Not exactly. $1200 core charge if you don't ship them your old injectors within 30 days.
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