Manual Duramax

[95chev]

This is what i want for my next pickup zf6 manual duramax reg cab
http://ottumwa.craigslist.org/cto/4239770527.html

 

[RyanMerrick]

Not bad

 

[LoudnLifted88]

excuse me why I wipe the drool off my key board

 

[77Concours]

I wish I would have gotten a chance to test drive one of those! I think I'd keep the Allison over the ZF-6 however. Just thought to myself today how bad I want a regular cab Duramax....

 

[BadBowtie 98]

From the research I've done that year is prone to leaky injectors which gets in the oil and messes up stuff

 

[95chev]

From the research I've done that year is prone to leaky injectors which gets in the oil and messes up stuff

Its an lb7 which you are correct it will need injectors every 100k

 

[4thesporty]

It's not that it messes things up, it's just the injectors need replaced about every 100K. Plan on it. It affected all LB7 engines (01-04.5). The problem is that the injectors are under the valve covers and it is not an easy task to do. I helped a buddy do his and it was a full evening of tear down (two piece valve covers suck!) and another full evening of put back together. We could probably do it in about 6 hours now.

While the ZF6 is arguably one of the best manual trannys of late, the chevy version did not include an oil cooler and was more prone to weakness than it's ford cousin (with the oil cooler).

That being said, I would gladly deal with those problems than suffer the 6.5 diesel if I woke up tomorrow and somebody swapped out engines and trannys on my truck overnight.