GM faulty piston rings in 5.3V8

[blackpowder]

Have had a few 5.7l gm’s over the years, and some 350’s and a 427, and pretty much had ford beat for years on simplicity and reliability in my opinion. Had a 5.3 in a 2011 and can’t say I disliked the engine but it wasn’t a 5.7. Far as I’m concerned gm started going to hell pre 2008 and never recovered.

If you're a fossil like me, you'd know that GM outnumbered all other gas truck engines by at least 10 to 1. And for very good reasons.

No it's not marketing, but neither is it climate, the vid, or politics. And no Chuck.
Refreshing. And informative.

[Partners]

Keeps the GM techs employed..
Not only the 5.3..

[Herc]

GM’s Piston slap, oil consumption, bent pushrods…..sounds like deere has competition for worst engines…..

[TOM4CWB]

GM’s Piston slap, oil consumption, bent pushrods…..sounds like deere has competition for worst engines…..

Humorous how Deere and Detroit 4 cycle engines were jointly designed together… the last engine I would have on this farm is a Detroit … the school of hard knocks was expensive… on an 8v92… we shut down and trailered to a Detroit shop… because we were sure it was piling up …but hadn’t yet…

Detroit put it on their DYNO… blew a rod through the side of the block… in 5 minutes on the DYNO…then gave zero allowance to fix it.

Long memory… I am like an Elephant… forgot forgot about that till …Herc…

New Truck warranty 30 years ago…was completely different (virtually nonexistent) to that Deere Agricultural warranty… perhaps somewhat better now… Cummins was the best engine warranty back then… Cat… a whole other story… not much better on rebuilds… truck engines old and new…are crazy expensive to keep going… post 2008 DEF technology is insane…

Interesting new ethanol conversions are coming… 1.7x the fuel burn… but fuel cost is less… no nox or particulate treatment needed… interesting technology is coming to convert our Diesel engines… without going electric… saw this on RFDTV









Very interesting solutions right around the corner…
Ethanol, NH3, biodiesel, Hydrogen… in combination with hybrid electric combined systems…

Cheers

[blackpowder]

Tom, Series 60 Detroits run forever.
Green leakers were throw away motors in the later configurations.

[Herc]

Tom, Series 60 Detroits run forever.
Green leakers were throw away motors in the later configurations.

I’ll second that. They threw a hail mary with the 60 series and they won. On the verge of going tits up to becoming the best engine ever built. Now apply that same recipe to the next one, cause the DD15/16 are back to their usual garbage…..

[blackpowder]

Gosh, in that 8 - 22 yr range.
You have to be so careful.
A lot of junk made. Big transition.

[seldomseen]

Started out with a 1976 chev with a 350
Incredible pickup that went and went with very few issues.
Next was a 1986 with a 305
Piece of junk that was really unreliable, hard on fuel and gutless
Next was a 2002 with a 5.3
Really good vehicle that still works good
Now a 2010 with a 5.3
Lots of oil pressure problems and never ending check engine lights for numerous different problems.
The first one when I was young kind of sold me on GMC but some of the others were garbage.

[samhill]

5.3

Have a ‘98 305, tons of miles runs like a scalded cat. A 2012 5.3, 160K, changed oil as recommended, checked it when I saw this notice, almost time to change oil again, pulled dipstick yesterday, 1/8inch from full, haven’t added since last change. Guess take the $2700 and keep on keeping on.

[Guest]

Started out with a 1976 chev with a 350
Incredible pickup that went and went with very few issues.
Next was a 1986 with a 305
Piece of junk that was really unreliable, hard on fuel and gutless
Next was a 2002 with a 5.3
Really good vehicle that still works good
Now a 2010 with a 5.3
Lots of oil pressure problems and never ending check engine lights for numerous different problems.
The first one when I was young kind of sold me on GMC but some of the others were garbage.

the updated oil filter fixed that on my 11