My dad has the 4.7L in his 2004 Dakota and I love the 4.7L. Hurts my heart to see that people would let engines go out and tear up like this. Truly heartbreaking. Glad to see you're rebuilding her. I'd say it's really worth the time.

My dad bought the 4.7 L in our truck brand new in 2005 almost at 200,000 and had no problems. just the other day The oil light came on. Thanks to my research I can now confidently say it is probably the oil pump. We are planning on rebuilding the entire truck.

I'd like to add in alittle information regarding how those pistons look. All the chewed out part. But first. The rocker is what really hurt it. Basicly that rocker fell off and when they do so it can hold a valve open making for the piston to piss the valve can clearly see the witness mart on the piston and when it did that it pushed the valve seat off as well. The seat did not drop from the commen heat problem these suffer on. All that damage on the top corner of the piston was not done by the seat or really by that little bit of the seat probably did not help but as you see it's on the top not the bottem that bit would trash the bottem. Go look at the head and then back at the piston... The lowest point on the head in the cylnder is were every piston has all those markings.. those are pre detonation marks from crappy gas or some one running a chip in it with regular gas. These marks are commen on 00-04 base 4.7s the h.o from 03+ and the revision never had these problems as those 2 motors used knock sensors but the 00-04s did not making for this damage to happen that's why you see it on every cylnder not just one.

First gen 4.7s from 98-2004 had their teething problems, the second and third gens were better and most of those issues were sorted out. You have to do the regular maintenance to keep it going of course and don't run the piss out of it and let it overheat. Love my 4.7 in my '06 Dakota, still going strong at 80,000 miles.

Just so people know, in 2008 dodge fixed all the problems in this motor and completely redesigned the heads and pistons. It’s now a great motor and practically indestructible, and they increased the HP to 310hp. I have 224,000km on mine and the rod bearings still look pristine. So make sure you get a 2008 and up motor and you’ll have a great powerful motor.

I have a 2000 dakota with the 4.7 engine, this engine has over 200,000 miles and runs great and has never had a major breakdown .

Unfortunately this engine has got a bad rap for dropping valve seats, not really the engines fault. I would blame it on the owner or mechanic. The cooling system needs to be properly purged of air. You cannot just simply fill up the cooling system and the reservoir and hope the air will work its way out. What happens is that air gets trapped in there around the cylinder heads causes hot spots then moves on gets cooled very quickly (expansion and contraction) as soon as coolant hits that hot spot and then this process continues and eventually you end up with a valve seat dropping. So if any work is done to the cooling system water pump, radiator, hoses, thermostat Etc. The bleed screw must be removed (at the top of timing cover 8mm Allen) to let all the air Escape this can take a good ten minutes of letting the engine run at idle.

I have a 2003 Dodge Durango with a 4.7L and we've had no problems, we are currently at 172600 miles and still going strong

I have a 2005 Dodge Ram with a 4.7. Drove it 250,000 miles and this just happened to me. Guess it's time to replace the engine or the truck.

My ram with the 4.7l has 273k miles on it. I didnt drive it slow and i did rev it hard a few times. Apparently long idle times will drop valve seats more than driving it hard. I got a HO from a jeep from picknpull and i am in the process of rebuilding this one to drop it into my dodge. I am trying to see what is a good rebuild kit out there? I looked thru forums and nobody really tells much apart from saying that they are rebuilding themselves the engines. No real details and no follow ups on the rebuilds. I want some info on the DNJ kits which aparently are made in china. Anyone has experience with those.? Will appreciate any input. Thanks.

My 03 Dakota has a 4.7 magnum engine as of now 236,000 miles still running strong doesn't leak and uses maybe a quart of oil in 1,500 to 2,000 miles. I have seen alot of 4.7 engine problems but to be honest I believe those problems are not a blame on the engine but neglect and abuse by the owners. That said I am thinking about just ordering me a long block replacement engine just to have as a replacement. 4x4 trucks with a crew cab even older ones are selling at ridiculous prices. My 03 with the miles on market going for $5,000. I can't afford to spend $15,000 to $20,000 to replace my 03 with something newer. I priced a Ford 09 4x4 crew cab few days ago was asking $20,000. It's just plain crazy

I have three Dodges sitting down at my shop with the 4.7 Motors and they all look like this. I never knew much about the 4.7 before people started bringing them in and I would never personally owned a Dodge 4.7 anything.

The 4.7s were not the worst engines, and I have never once seen the bottom end blow up, but there are problems with the heads. If it overheats a tiny bit, it will blow a head gasket, or drop a seat. This is because the 4.7 has a unique cooling system and people dont know how to bleed it. Mine has 224k, but I was driving (w / original water pump) and the shaft bushing failed, leaked coolant and blew at least one head gasket. It's not the engines fault in this case as the water pump had 224k on it, and it outlasted Chryslers service recommended interval by over 100k. I'm just throwing in a used engine, because mine has 224k and oil leaking out of everything oil can possibly can leak out of.

same issue from here, Chile, durango 2001 287, too many pieces of something get into the admision manifold and the engine eat all, now in rebuild process, sorry for my engliss 🤣

You sound like nice guy trying to help. Camera work must have been done by a drunk sailor.

It jumped timing !

2000 4.7 250k 5 speed making cars cry!

Please help. Where is the engine number and chassis number of that dakota located

my dakota 07 just had the same thing happen to it on cylinder 8 but got way more fucked the valve broke and ended up breaking the head and piston now im contemplating buying a new engine instead of rebuilding since it already has 236.000 miles on it 😂

Maybe the 4.7 you and many people on the forums just had bad engines. My 4.7 has over 100k and it runs like a top. Never had any issues with it. My friend also has a 4.7 in his truck, Never had any issues either. So, its not the engine that's bad, it the people that are super hard on them that makes the engines break down.

Its all about how you take care of the vehicle i have 2 Durangos 01 and 02 both 4.7s my 01 has 236k on it and runs perfect ive never had a problem only thing ive changed are sensors like IAC and TPS my 02 has 127k and that one runs perfect as well the 4.7 is not a bad motor my 236k on it proves that, original motor and trans compression on my 01 is perfect as well as the 02 ive had the 01 since 175k and the 02 since 115k so if you know about the 4.7 as i do u can make the engine see very high milage

Yeah 4.7 suxs. Both of my trucks are dodges one Is a dakota.took both of them an install a 5.9 in both of them