06' Head Worth It?

[Big Blue24]

I have the opportunity to buy an 06' head with 45K miles for $400 bucks.

Do the newer heads flow well enough to justify the hassle of putting them on an older 24 valve like mine?

How much more should I be willing to pay to get the common rail and injector lines....

Is $400 too much money for a used head? The stock 06' that it came from melted #6 piston. It was still running when it was driven into the shop, just had a little bit of piston slap/knock that the owner wanted investigated. I checked the valve seats and not aluminum under the valves, just a little bit of surface buildup of aluminum/soot mixed.

 

[LAmiller]

if there's no cracks then its a good buy, just don't know how hard it is to make a common rail head work on a 24V

 

[haloman]

P.M. IC-Smoke he was the one that did a writeup on the swap.

 

[SCHOOL BUS]

that'll go good with that 3rd gen turbo...

 

[XLR8R]

You're gonna need a bunch more parts than a rail & injector lines to turn it into a 610 motor!

 

[DIESELPWRED]

All you need is common rail cross over tubes machined to fit vp44 injector lines and open one water passage up a little and it's a direct bolt on. O and you have to relocate the map sensor and the air temp sensor.

 

[Big Blue24]

Maybe I'll just buy it and try to resell it for a small profit.

 

[XLR8R]

You won't have any trouble unloading it on someone who wants a good core to use for cylinder head mods so their DD isn't down for more than a few days - go to the trouble to disassemble, tank & flux it so you know it's a solid core and it'll sell even easier.

New reman CR heads from Cummins are $14XX.00 last time I checked (they come assembled ready to install).

 

[Big Swole]

My buddy James here on CompD (hjpcummins) just Jacked his head up and needs one!!!!

PM him.......Or me...I'll give ya his number!!!


David

 

[kipo]

You can get the crossover tubes from EEP or Monster Pump Mike. Drill and tap the intake to get the sensors to work. it's a 14 mm straight thread I believe. You also have to massage a water jacket iirc.

 

[JakeDiesel]

a good head $400 i think that i would go for it.

 

[Big Blue24]

Well,
I bought the head. I can't tell if the build up is just soot or if there is a little melted aluminum that made it to the head on cyl #6. See attached picture, what do you all think?

 

[Big Swole]

Well,
I bought the head. I can't tell if the build up is just soot or if there is a little melted aluminum that made it to the head on cyl #6. See attached picture, what do you all think?

That looks like it's from the melted piston....Mine looked similar but not quite that bad......

It should clean up just fine......I hope....

 

[tirefrier]

bump

 

[IC-Smoke]

worth it! have it milled down, reset the valves and your good to go!

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