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6.5 toast, seized, new motor time

think it's going to be kind of hard to search the ads. any chance of a rebuild? what happened?
 
I am in the same boat. Finding a good one u can hear running for a good price is hard....
 
I found one at junk yard for two grand with 149,000 and mine was as 6.2 with 6.5 heads that I put together with stuff laying around but it seized up on way home, luckily it made it to driveway had to pull it about 500 ft to house I'm not sure how to go about this keep throwing money at older motors or bite bullet and get brand new I found online one "gm" site 2700 for long block but core charge I won't be seeing again and shipping to boot, if I were rich I'd drop in a built p400 but I think it would stroke the wife even rebuilding one seems to get into thousands I just got a 93 manual pump crew cab for a grand and thought of pulling it and scraping rest but it has 240,000 on odometer and was old slope truck so hours are endless, plus it's a fairly decent truck so I'm here pulling my hair out trying to get my suburban back on the road
 
I have had good luck with Boyce equipment out of Utah. (50K+ miles on one and 10K+ on the other engine I got from them so far.) They run them before shipping and package them well. 30K mile take out military surplus engines. I was back on the road for $1200, 6.2 engine, w/ shipping, plus other parts.
Starter, ARP head studs and 6.5 head gaskets, oil cooler, engine, etc was around $2000.00 total.

I would recommend gapless rings aka re-ringing the engine and cleaning the boars with a hone.

New Optimizer engines do not have cracking issues like the higher mile used 6.2 I got has now in the main webs.

Knowing why your engine locked up would be useful. Injector, coolant leak, etc. Then you have to think about the turbo condition if it was coolant or other oil issues. Then you can make a decision about what way to go...
 
before it blew check gauges light was on i looked at oil pressure and was 0 so im sure oil failure but still in rig so havent pulled apart to see waste of my time at this point, i over heated it once and had a cracked head two months ago so im sure it was on its way i replaced heads and ran till now
 
The oil pump drives have a plastic retainer on the shaft, not sure how critical it is or if it melted and could drop the oil pump drive shaft out. Maybe you broke the oil pump drive shaft from cold oil? Or blew a cooler line?

In any case the engine, turbo, and oil cooler will have to be exchanged/rebuilt/replaced. The local offer above would save shipping.
 
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