My '06 K2500 6.0L Heart Transplant

[GASoline71]

Well, the ol' Silverado 6.0L crapped out on me last week and spun a rod bearing. This truck is just shy of 300K on the odometer. I've owned it since '08 and most of those miles are mine. We have been up mountains, across rivers, and all over the PNW with many adventures camping, hunting and fishing.

My stepson and I are going to yard the engine out this weekend and looking at options on what to do next. There are remans available from many sources for right about $3,500. To rebuild it including machine work is going to be pretty much the same thing, so it's a wash. However, I do like knowing what is in there as I am the one putting it together.

Just curious, what you guys would do?

Gary

[EVRLET]

If you trust your local machine shop, do that.

These gen III/IV motors were designed and built well. Can’t really think of a bad design or common fail item. Build it back to stock with stock parts and call it good. No need to spend money on forged internals.

My suggestion is to replace the lifter trays with new OEM.

A mild cam would be nice but then you need a tune, so skip this nicety unless you want to go down that road.

[bdk1976]

If it were me, I'd probably look for a decent low(ish) mileage pull out on fb/craigslist or a junk yard.