OTOH-I blew up my 88 Jimmy 2.8 at 90K. Had persisnt oil leka problems on top of engine-proably was low on oil when I g blew it. Put n ream engine Jasper- and rna it to 160K. No rust as I was in TN most of the time. But red apint peeled off to grey undercoat. OK truck.
Bissell Cove Quahog & Auto Salvage Co Dwight E. Giles, Jr. Wickford RI 02852 -----Original Message----- From: mercedes-boun...@okiebenz.com [mailto:mercedes-boun...@okiebenz.com] On Behalf Of Curt Raymond Sent: Saturday, July 04, 2009 9:47 AM To: Diesel List Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT - cheap kids car Do you know if there was much difference in the 2.8 installed in cars and that installed in the s trucks? I had an S15 Jimmy with the 2.8 and while it was pretty gutless I drove that truck to 150,000 miles which was an unheard of amount in our family at the time... The tinworm finally got that one, the engine was fine. -Curt Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2009 10:41:33 -0500 From: Donald Snook <dsn...@mtsqh.com> Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT - cheap kids car To: "Mercedes@okiebenz.com" <Mercedes@okiebenz.com> Message-ID: <a0121bfa28702c4fa69fc5d9ceb56d0837c4648...@mtsqhexc2.mtsqh.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Mitch wrote: "My twenty year old memories of 2.8L V6 aren't fond ones, is the 3.1 that much better?" the 3.1 "M" motor is very good. It is an old design engine and thus the reliability has improved over years and years of using the engine. The only problem I ever heard about the "M" motor was that the they had a oil leak. The engine is old enough that it used to come with a distributor. When they got rid of the distributor they put a $2 seal in the top of the shaft. They leak once you get 60-75,000 miles. It is an easy repair. Other than that, the 3.1 M engine is great. It was in TONS of gm crs through the 90's and even early 2000's. Donald H. Snook -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://okiebenz.com/pipermail/mercedes_okiebenz.com/attachments/20090704/05 b670fe/attachment.html> _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
