I am the lucky owner of a 2009 1500 5.7 with the lifter failure thats taken out the cam. Engine has about 198,000 miles, so I guess its hard to be to mad but still frustrating due to it being such a common failure.
It started on CL, I saw the truck listed as having trans issues and after driving it and feeling no shifting problems I found codes for cyl 1 misfire and cyl 1 reactivation. I left with what may be the cheapest fully loaded truck I have ever head of thinking I hit the goldmine and it needs an MDS solenoid. I put one in and the reactivation code went away but the mis remained. Plugs, coil, injector, you know the deal, nothing helped. Compression was a bit low, slight leakdown from the intake... not the end of the world, right? I will pull the head, valve, spring, move on with life. Wrong again. Pulled the lifter from #1 intake and you already know what I found, roller bouncing around like a kid on a carnival ride, leaving a round cam lobe behind. After taking a look at everything all the pushrods have excessive wear as well which is not shocking at this point. Luckily, I pulled the VVT solenoid and not a spec of metal in the screens indicating the contaminates are not flowing through the engine at this point and a "refurbish" is plausible. Additionally the head failed the water test for the cyl #1 intake with a slow leak.
So at this point I would be looking at a cam, all lifters, all rods, rockers, and #1 valve as the top was beat to **** along with the VVT solenoid I destroyed trying to remove. This brings me to the reason for making the post, sourcing parts to make this financially worth the rebuild. OEM parts pricing all added up seems to not be worth throwing that much at a 200k engine when for around $2200 I can locally source one with 73k on it. Does anyone here know a parts source for this stuff? Just looking for OEM spec as I will be selling the truck so dont need to "throw the better one in while I'm in there"
Thanks in advance!
It started on CL, I saw the truck listed as having trans issues and after driving it and feeling no shifting problems I found codes for cyl 1 misfire and cyl 1 reactivation. I left with what may be the cheapest fully loaded truck I have ever head of thinking I hit the goldmine and it needs an MDS solenoid. I put one in and the reactivation code went away but the mis remained. Plugs, coil, injector, you know the deal, nothing helped. Compression was a bit low, slight leakdown from the intake... not the end of the world, right? I will pull the head, valve, spring, move on with life. Wrong again. Pulled the lifter from #1 intake and you already know what I found, roller bouncing around like a kid on a carnival ride, leaving a round cam lobe behind. After taking a look at everything all the pushrods have excessive wear as well which is not shocking at this point. Luckily, I pulled the VVT solenoid and not a spec of metal in the screens indicating the contaminates are not flowing through the engine at this point and a "refurbish" is plausible. Additionally the head failed the water test for the cyl #1 intake with a slow leak.
So at this point I would be looking at a cam, all lifters, all rods, rockers, and #1 valve as the top was beat to **** along with the VVT solenoid I destroyed trying to remove. This brings me to the reason for making the post, sourcing parts to make this financially worth the rebuild. OEM parts pricing all added up seems to not be worth throwing that much at a 200k engine when for around $2200 I can locally source one with 73k on it. Does anyone here know a parts source for this stuff? Just looking for OEM spec as I will be selling the truck so dont need to "throw the better one in while I'm in there"
Thanks in advance!