Ice Cream Season has Started in Edmonton, AB

[Tygircreams]

I own a 1988 Chevy Grumman P3o with a 6.2 liter Diesel. I found it in a scrap yard about 3 years ago. Just wanted the body but figured what the heck , all I saw missing was ignition switch so put one in. We gave it a boost to see if it would turn over, it not only turned over but it started. We got it registered and certified as rebuilt salvage and have been using it eve since as an ice cream truck.

 

[BoostN]

I own a 1988 Chevy Grumman P3o with a 6.2 liter Diesel. I found it in a scrap yard about 3 years ago. Just wanted the body but figured what the heck , all I saw missing was ignition switch so put one in. We gave it a boost to see if it would turn over, it not only turned over but it started. We got it registered and certified as rebuilt salvage and have been using it eve since as an ice cream truck.

Nice find. Now go make some money!

 

[Pepperidge]

Hard to kill an old 6.2

Welcome to the site!

 

[snarl95]

welcome

 

[Will L.]

Great application of a 6.2.

Post some pics, please. I miss my p30, I used to be a Mac Tools guy.

 

[NVW]

Welcome to TTS

 

[btfarm]

That sounds pretty cool. We'd like to see some pictures.

 

[WarWagon]

Hard to NOT to kill an old 6.2

Welcome to the site!

Fixed it for you!

Welcome! The 6.2's are a step above a 5.7 Olds Diesel hand grenade. The parts are cheap when it does let go. Many of the weak areas have been addressed on the engine and our vendors sell all the improvements including improved non-crack prone blocks and heads. Start with checking your oil cooler lines and then poke around here for other relibility improvements.

 

[Burning oil]

All flavors and Push Ups to. Im your ice-cream man......
Anyone can finish that last sentence?

 

[Pepperidge]

Fixed it for you!

Welcome! The 6.2's are a step above a 5.7 Olds Diesel hand grenade. The parts are cheap when it does let go. Many of the weak areas have been addressed on the engine and our vendors sell all the improvements including improved non-crack prone blocks and heads. Start with checking your oil cooler lines and then poke around here for other reliability improvements.

Met a local guy I'm trying to get to join the site...

just over 300k miles on his CUCV blazer and never any major problems... a few sets of injectors and religious maintenance is what he claims got him this far...

says he gets great fuel mileage too. for an 80 something truck I'd say that's a pretty good achievement.

 

[WarWagon]

Met a local guy I'm trying to get to join the site...

just over 300k miles on his CUCV blazer and never any major problems... a few sets of injectors and religious maintenance is what he claims got him this far...

says he gets great fuel mileage too. for an 80 something truck I'd say that's a pretty good achievement.

Yes, like 1/2 the lightbulbs in the room that are still lit at the 1000 hour life test end. Odds are very good when you pull the engine down it's cracked and un-rebuildable. This is why the engine has been re-designed twice since GM stopped production.

Maintenance only gets you the life of bearings, rings, and other items. When the engine runs perfectly up till the cracks let loose.

Same claim is made of any engine esp. the Million mile Cummins rep that is rated at 500K before a overhaul. Some don't make 10K, 100K, etc. Some had core shifting and block cracks.

The point here is more Cummins engines last longer and move the curve as an average. So for 6.2 engines a good many of them died horrible deaths as complete scrap metal from getting too hot, inhaling their own glow plug debris, cracking heads, cracking the block, or simply the TTY HG bolts let the gaskets blow.

I will make the same claim of a 350 or 454 gas engine. Most can be rebuilt after the 200K+ expected life.

So again my point is it's hard to not blow a 6.2 and backing that claim up with the fact that The US Government had the 6.5 engine redesigned twice to eliminate engine killing design and GM bean counter shortcomings.

Does a 6.2/6.5 do ok? - yes. Exceptional or hard to kill can not be justified for that engine period. With the low replacement cost of parts vs. other diesel engines this really does not matter. Resale vs. other same year diesel pickups is low due to a combination of low power and the reputation, earned and deserved, for mediocre reliability. Sites like this help with the reliability angle and when it lets go we show you the way to cheaply replace the engine.