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I know just having some fun with you lol
I went to the stealership the other day and my buddy had a cab off a '22 Silverado with 3.0L.

Had to replace motor mounts, a sensor on rear of engine, oil pump belt, and something else back there.
It was something silly on book time, roughly 52 hours, ($8300+ labor)

The good thing is the 3.0L Long blocks are fairly cheap. They put a couple in every week.
The oil consumption with them is silly. Majority of them they are swapping are in there with low oil pressure or thrust bearings are gone.

I stay far away from diesels just for the simple fact of how much their parts cost and the labor hours to fix anything with them.
My beater truck loves drinking gas but its been reliable for the past 500k miles. haha
 
I went to the stealership the other day and my buddy had a cab off a '22 Silverado with 3.0L.

Had to replace motor mounts, a sensor on rear of engine, oil pump belt, and something else back there.
It was something silly on book time, roughly 52 hours, ($8300+ labor)

The good thing is the 3.0L Long blocks are fairly cheap. They put a couple in every week.
The oil consumption with them is silly. Majority of them they are swapping are in there with low oil pressure or thrust bearings are gone.

I stay far away from diesels just for the simple fact of how much their parts cost and the labor hours to fix anything with them.
My beater truck loves drinking gas but its been reliable for the past 500k miles. haha
Man I’ve had no problems with my 2023 3.0. Hope I don’t but it’s been smooth for me so far. I only have 17700 miles on it though.
 
I went to the stealership the other day and my buddy had a cab off a '22 Silverado with 3.0L.

Had to replace motor mounts, a sensor on rear of engine, oil pump belt, and something else back there.
It was something silly on book time, roughly 52 hours, ($8300+ labor)

The good thing is the 3.0L Long blocks are fairly cheap. They put a couple in every week.
The oil consumption with them is silly. Majority of them they are swapping are in there with low oil pressure or thrust bearings are gone.

I stay far away from diesels just for the simple fact of how much their parts cost and the labor hours to fix anything with them.
My beater truck loves drinking gas but its been reliable for the past 500k miles. haha
52 HOURS??? hell, my truck doesn't have an oil pump belt but I bet I could do motor mounts 10 times in that amount of time. Geez
 
I went to the stealership the other day and my buddy had a cab off a '22 Silverado with 3.0L.

Had to replace motor mounts, a sensor on rear of engine, oil pump belt, and something else back there.
It was something silly on book time, roughly 52 hours, ($8300+ labor)

The good thing is the 3.0L Long blocks are fairly cheap. They put a couple in every week.
The oil consumption with them is silly. Majority of them they are swapping are in there with low oil pressure or thrust bearings are gone.

I stay far away from diesels just for the simple fact of how much their parts cost and the labor hours to fix anything with them.
My beater truck loves drinking gas but its been reliable for the past 500k miles. haha
Quite a lot of Babymax repairs are cab-off. It’s not a well-liked engine among the techs I know/have spoken with.

Supposedly it's 2 hours labor to take off and another 2 hours to put on, but that assumes you have the means to do it...and most of us don’t.
 
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Should be under warranty still 5 year /100k ? Or is he over 100k
It was over 100k miles


Man I’ve had no problems with my 2023 3.0. Hope I don’t but it’s been smooth for me so far. I only have 17700 miles on it though.
haha just wait till you get some miles on it.


52 HOURS??? hell, my truck doesn't have an oil pump belt but I bet I could do motor mounts 10 times in that amount of time. Geez
Ever seen the motor mounts on the 3.0?


Quite a lot of Babymax repairs are cab-off. It’s not a well-liked engine among the techs I know/have spoken with.

Supposedly it's 2 hours labor to take off and another 2 hours to put on, but that assumes you have the means to do it...and most of us don’t.
yea my buddys at the stealership will pull the cab for just about anything to make repairs easier to get to.
He can take cab off in 30 minutes and back on in 45 minutes. He loves the diesel pay just cause he knows all the tips and tricks.
Works about 25 hours a week and gets payed for over 90hrs of book time.
 
Ever seen the motor mounts on the 3.0?
No, but no vehicle should be designed so poorly that it's supposed to take 52 hours to do a job like that.
Should be under warranty still 5 year /100k ? Or is he over 100k
Either way 52 hours is a long time. That poor guy
 
No, but no vehicle should be designed so poorly that it's supposed to take 52 hours to do a job like that.

Either way 52 hours is a long time. That poor guy
52 hours was for the several items. not just motor mounts only

Book time for both motor mounts on a 2010 silverado 5.3 calls for 11.3 hours.
I changed both motor mounts, oil/filter change, plugs/wires, replaced intake tube, and tuned truck in 3.5 hours last Friday night. So their book times are way off but the Techs like it sometimes.
 
52 hours was for the several items. not just motor mounts only

Book time for both motor mounts on a 2010 silverado 5.3 calls for 11.3 hours.
I changed both motor mounts, oil/filter change, plugs/wires, replaced intake tube, and tuned truck in 3.5 hours last Friday night. So their book times are way off but the Techs like it sometimes.
Wish I knew how to do all that stuff. I’m only good for oil and fuel filter changes.
 
Wish I knew how to do all that stuff. I’m only good for oil and fuel filter changes.
Get yer hands dirty, roll up your sleeves and just do it. Youtube vids, a forum like this one and a Haynes manual will get you thru quite a lot. No one was born knowing this stuff, we all had to learn somewhere 👍
 
Yeah, it's just learning stuff.
You do need some initial outlay in money for socket and wrench sets, jacks, jack stands (don't go under a vehicle just supported by jacks), a subscription to the full service manual at a site like alldata.com (not that expensive), and a good code reader (most expensive thing on this list, buy once, cry once vs buying cheap and needing to pay again for a better one).
 
Wish I knew how to do all that stuff. I’m only good for oil and fuel filter changes.
Thats why i dont drive a new expensive truck haha.
Growing up we didnt have much so you had to either learn to work on stuff the hard way or save up to have something fixed.
In 2004 i had figured out how to put a turbo on my 2000 silverado and tune it.
Wasnt anything on the interwebz back then or word of mouth on how that stuff worked.
Now i turbo everything and have combos to get just about anything done on turbo trucks/cars.


Ive always owned cheap beater trucks and worked on them myself.

I bet your monthly payments for 12 months are more than i have in our 2 vehicles. :LOL:

I paid $2000 for my 2500HD and $5000 for the wifes tahoe. Truck has over 500k miles and wifes tahoe has 322k miles.
 
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