Posted By: gregsdart
5.9 Magnum nickel rebuild? - 12/23/16 05:42 PM
I am going to purchase a 5.9 in the spring to put into a street car, and am thinking it might be worth paying less for a higher mileage motor and throwing a set of rings and bearings in it, and a valve job. I don't want to get into having machine work done, so it boils down to using a dickey ball hone, and a rering plus bearings for the bottom end. With the stock rings being molly coated, I don't want to goof this up if a dickey ball hone is too course or other problems. It will be getting a bigger cam plus matching springs, and a new timing chain whether I rebuild the rest or not. Anything else I need to consider to make this a decent motor I can sell down the road? Comments?