Go the built motor route. With the trans and turbo upgrades, you'll basically have a new truck. I watched this build from day one, you have a lot of time and effort invested. Keep it, Bro!

While your gone for 6 months have it all done when get back so you don’t have to worry about it. The sales tax on a new truck is almost enough to repower your truck .

Really sorry for your loss man. You’ve done soooooo much to this truck. You’ll feel so much better building it as apposed to selling it off. Please build 💪

No way I’d sell it. Your almost done ! Rams are the best absolutely.

Sorry for your loss brother. I'm Army aviation crew dog for the 60's and have loss friends in Iraq and Afghanistan. It's hard. I pray for their family. Stay safe on your deployment. I vote you keep the truck and put a built motor in it and have a badass ride, but that's my vote. You do what's best for you brother.

Sorry for your loss! Beautiful truck! Keep it and rebuild the engine! Once running paint a phoenix on the hood!! Thank you for your service!!❤️🙏

Build the motor IMO… Be back bigger and better, bless.

1st off, thanks for your service. 2nd, sorry for the loss of your brothers. As for the truck, that's a bad ass truck man. Myself, I would get that motor you mentioned and have it ready to roll when you get back. Enjoy it for a little awhile then think about what you really want to do. If you decide to sell it, I'm sure one of your KZfaq followers would be all over it because they know what they be getting. Me personally, I would never own another chevy or ford. Cummins is where it's at, you just can't beat it. I have a 2018 3500 Laramie HO with Aisin and 410 gears. I'm putting as much money into as I can to build it out as far as I can go but not deleting it. Thought about it but just too sketchy anymore. If I buy another truck, it'll be a 1st 2nd or 3rd gen, not new and keeping my 2018 til I die. Be safe and keep us updated on during deployment.

Man sorry for the loss of your brothers.

Keep it brotha, build it and enjoy! Sorry for your lost brotha.

Keep the truck man, you’re so close to having your forever truck! Stay safe on deployment, look forward to the update when you get back.

Get Josh from HorseTouque Diesel to build you a new engine. I would keep your current truck as a lot of the newer trucks are meh imo.

Keep it man I got a 4th gen cummins and a 2017 l5p I love them both and both are deleted but the Cummins is way more user friendly

Let me start off by offering my condolences to you, them, and their families! Please be safe upon your deployment, brother, we need you back here to make some fire content! Are you still rocking with them aftermarket 6.5s in the impala? Personally, I'd buy a new motor in it and call it a day. Regardless of the vehicles you buy, once you start messing with em, there will be issues! Hell, i was pissed when you sold your first white cummins! Keep your head up, man! You got this!

Let’s face it we all want to see you rockin in that big girl ! That kind of happiness we see when it’s running good and the turbo’s whistling is priceless! But, you do you Sir And our condolences to you and your brothers in you’re squad and their families .

don’t get rid of the truck brotha , just got a mega cab 4th gen and have gone over all ur old videos , it’s a good looking truck still just keep it forever lmao

If you get a Denali or a King Ranch and you sit next a Cummins at a light, you will have a tear roll down your cheek full of regret. TRUST ME. I had to stop the tears and bought another Cummins 2 years ago.

I have had moded trucks and I will never have another! The power is nice but you're always fixing something!

Thanks for the update. Sorry about the horrible start to your year. I want to see you keep going with this one!

Keep working on it. I have an 06 3500 I just did a compound turbo 364/475 with exhaust brake, soon I’ll be doing dynamite injectors 45% over and I’ll upgrading my pushrods, valve springs, head studs. I watched your videos of your 3rd gen. 🤘🏽🍺

Love the channel and most especially, thank you for your service!

Really appreciate the update we’ve been missing the hell out of the channel

Keep it and finish it up we all would like to see it once it's completed. I had a ram 3500 and was planning on getting another so I'm really taking notes from you to help me out with mine.

Sorry for your loss brother

Dang bro. Sorry for your loss. Stay strong. We here for you.

Im looking for a 2nd gen swap kit and 9 blade for my 2010 3500 mega cab dually 6.7 cummins and I just got my seisures controlled again by my medicine and lost my job but you keep me going and im so sorry for your loss and thank you for your service and ive always wanted to meet you and enjoy getting to hangout with you and enjoy working on my truck with you or get your advice on it and I hope your having an amazing day and god bless you man

Very Sorry for the loss of your friends. Also sorry to hear about your engine. Check out Dave's Auto Center in Utah. They are second to none, top shelf engine builder. Everything will be done right. You've done so much to it, it would be ashame to sell it for a loss. Good Luck with what ever you decide.

Been wondering where ya been and what was happening, good to see ya back ol buddy.

My condolences Bro for your losses and thank you for your service. I vote for keeping the truck, she's a beauty!

Damn... All that work you've put in just to get rid of it. I'd throw in a built motor and keep on rocking. That's just me, though. I'm sorry to hear about your bro's. Best of luck to you on your deployment. Thanks for the update.

I got rid of my dually, regretted it, and now back in a dually! Stick with your big girl truck bro! You’ll thank me later! 💪🏾

Stay safe put there brother miss youre updates cant wait to see what you do when you come back

Glad to see you back, man! I'd keep the truck and build the motor. You have gone way too far to quit now. I've been around since the white 3rd gen, love ram/dodge trucks.

sorry for your loss

Another Diesel Brother Blessing the Country 🇺🇲💪 I grew up on Army Bases as a child I Turned Out ok ;) Keep the Truck 💪 you Got a Ton of good loyal support out there.

Sorry for your loss.

Build the motor, as someone who has put his heart and soul into his truck i understand the heart brake, but it also sucks to have to give up that chunk of yourself that you've given to building this. At least that's my opinion, i always push people to do what makes them happy!

you making me cray fix it and keep it love it. I love my truck will not ever by the other trucks . be saft sorry for your lose ...

Sorry about your loss man. My 68 went right before my last deployment to Iraq. Moved out of base housing and dumped all my BAH INTO IT😂 it’s a clean truck so it’s definitely worth putting a motor in it..that is if it’s worth it to you lol.

Fuck dude, sorry to here about losing some of your comrades, THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE bro, and condolences to the guys you lost in your platoon, I`ve been following you from start of this build, so please take some time and give her a new heart my friend. The fact that you put a lot of of blood sweat and tears into this girl, fix her, no other options brother, YOU know you love this truck!! Keep the truck brother

Cool 😎. Keep the truck , I also have a 2015 mega cab dually with 14k on the odometer. I use it to only pull my 32’ enclosed race trailer when I go to the drag strip or car shows .

my brother you should rebuild the short block, find a used set of forged rods and enjoy the truck.You are almost there my man.

Make the choice that works for you. Also condolences for your lost marines and the families.

sorry to hear the news . Now as for the truck if you're going to get a motor for it you might as well get a built one and enjoy the truck.

I'm hardcore Duramax but my next diesel will be a Ram with the Cummins. The Duramax and Power stroke's are v-8 engines and they're more difficult to work on cause there is so much stuff jammed in the engine compartment. The Cummins being the straight 6 is much easier to work on. In my opinion and experience.

First off, im glad you are well! Next please think long and hard about purchasing someone's used diesel. The new prices are out of sight as you know. It seems to make the most financial since to fix that engine. Chances are if you get a truck thats used, someone has done some dumb crap in it. I'm excited to see what you decide on! Stay alert stay alive!✌️

Stay safe in your deployment!

Fix it and keep it man. Don’t let that thing go.

Keep the truck, my man. You'll be happy you did. It's just a little bump in the road.

Definitely keep the truck and get a built motor for it. Your so close to having a solid setup

It's not letting me post my response but I would go ahead and keep the one you have. I would look into getting a ram box for it to eliminate the dual rear wheel box and then I would float the rear axle take it in and get it cut down so you can still keep the massive pumpkin and then float the axles and just reuse everything else. That's why I got my truck that I got cuz it's a one ton but I wanted something with significantly more power. But you can only get the ace and transmission behind the high output Cummins but high output isn't high output enough But I completely understand your issue with the vehicle likes to stay broken. But the good news is it's oftentimes it's usually little modules or fuses or the one everybody loves the most, including myself, which frayed wire in that big ass loom is deciding not to work 😆 I'll give you a hint what could go wrong. They like to break the Hydra boost. If you don't stay on top of the brake fluid change, it likes to fry the ABS module and pump both at the same time. How it gets that done is a better feet of engineering than how they got the actual vehicle to work in its entirety. It likes to break its little sensors and oftentimes when it does, it goes ahead and it goes into a behind the scenes limp home mode. So it'll cut your fuel economy by 20 to 40% and it won't even tell you check engine light . Check engine light won't even turn on so unless you have an OBD reader, you won't know unless you're looking at your MPG and you're like, why did it go from 25 to 15? 25 MPG is of course if you run in all the banks equipment and you're not going over 65 mph. Otherwise it drops down to 22. But when you're producing over 1600 ft lb of torque I guess it doesn't much matter. It's still getting decent fuel economy Honestly I liked you to keep that truck cuz well your way of thinking is mostly in line with mine. Like you'll be putting compounds on there and all of that other crap and I'd like to see what you get for returns. Lol😅 This is going to sound kind of pathetic, but have you tried approaching the companies with the numbers from your channel and the fact that you're a veteran because most of these companies will actually cut the profit completely out of the equation and some of them will even take a loss if you promise so many seconds in your video for advertising and you can tell them you would produce so many in a series but that would be completely on you cuz I know you said you didn't want to remove the engine from the vehicle but on these new trucks it's pretty easy. The whole front comes off. The whole cooling package is come off and then the motor comes right out the front just disconnect it from the transfer case. Just unbolt the transmission and there's one main wire on the Cummins for the wiring loom. It's on the driver side and then there's like three on the passenger side there's like one on top. There's like couple that go to the alternator and then a couple of them that go to the air intake and then there's the two on top of the motor for that PVC system and that's it for the Commons and then on the transmission there's like three or four wiring connectors. You want to do those and six bolts that connected to the transfer case and then two bolts to the mount for the transmission and two bolts on the engine mounts for the engine and then you lift it up 2 in and you pull it straight out the front of the vehicle

Just keep it when you get the motor rebuilt Brother.. Semper Fi!

Man, obviously it’s yours brother, if your going to have a truck with a brand NEW engine, your still money ahead when it comes to getting another truck and putting upgrades on it what not. But long story short, I’d keep the ole girl man. It will be a rig you miss when she is gone, your dually is very nice! I love your truck and I hate that she went down on you. But will follow you either way man. Sorry about your fellow Marines brother.

sorry to hear about your brothers, truly appreciate your service. selling out parts?

Build it out man keep it sweet truck for sure

KEEP THE RAM. Build it up to handle the power. It's a Great Truck. I own a 2016 Ram 3500 D/w. There's no other truck 4 me. There's alote of you in that truck. Don't kick her to the curb. Just build it.

You have too much time and money invested in the truck. If you let it go, deep down you will always regret and wonder what could have been. Being deployed for 6 months gives a shop plenty of time to build you a motor and make that truck absolutely perfect. Good luck man and be safe.

Keep it bro

I think you should reach out to Dave's auto center out of Utah and have have them build you a monster tow engine. It would be great content and you get a new engine.

And sorry about your loss there with your buddies and your unit. Kind of loss for words.

You’ve already come this far you might as well keep it. Once you go Cummins you can’t go back😊

Build it and keep it!

Build it! Not to many channels on KZfaq for Cummins like yours.

Build the engine, keep it and converted to a SRW. Start looking for a shortbed same color hopefully you can save on the paint.

I’m a new truck old engine guy. ❤❤😢. But brah u gotta build the best engine so we can watch. Put that pain into something positive 🍻

My floor mats curl up the same... be safe man.

Channel does say everything diesel .. try the gmc . I absolutely love them

Keep it!!!!

What was the cause of failure? I saw on previous video you were using Amazon injectors?? I just got back from my deployment.. know the feeling. I would look for a bottom end out of a junk yard.. pull it and have a shop build it for me while I’m down range.

Keep it!!!!!!!!!!

Stay with the a cummins bro

Semper Fi Devil Dog!

How much does it cost for that new engine. I vote that you keep it. Its an awesome truck. I wish I hand the money to buy it.

I’ve had early 3rd gen manual, late 3rd gen 1100hp mega cab, 06 3rd gen that did 1550 on spray, a LMM Denali, and a 6.7 powerstroke I loved all of them but there is something about a mega cab you will always miss. The alumidutys are stupid and not what they are cracked up to be. Sold mine and got a steel body King ranch lol.

Put a short block in it. You delete and go back original and enjoy it for another 200000 miles. It’s a nice truck

I'd send that motor to Motor parts plus in Kauffman, Tx. He builds a ton of them and has sen them to all 50 states. He's good!

What size tires you got on there?

Keep it and put a lift on that bad larry!

Like you said “Lot of hard work” built motor and keep it is my vote

Sorry to hear about you squad man🙏🏽. Go with a built motor and keep the truck or go for that big Dawg Ford!

Man keep it! Buy an engine and press on!

Cam, sender fi and I’m sorry about your guys in your unit. Prayers!! Bro you can get a short block from wagler or WOT really anywhere for not that bad. Keep old girl and build the bottom end

Fix it Keep it

That’s a bad ass truck! I would just get a motor and keep the truck.

I know I blew up your messages but I know you just put new batteries in that truck so you might want to get one of those battery chargers that you stick in the windshield that uses a solar panel and then you plug it into the cigarette lighter. They're only like 30 or 40 bucks and it'll save your batteries

Performance diesel is about 20 miles from me out here in Utah, idk much about them but I do go to a shop up the road in a place called cedar city, Smith Diesel performance. Call them, they are the go to diesel guys around here, I trust their word like GOD 😂, give them a call just to see what they say, that's my 2 sense 😅

What exactly happened to the engine? Do you know what part failed and why?

Keep it 🇺🇸🇺🇸

Don't sell, place another 6.7 in it, price it out?

So clean do new motor an run it. And be safe

Sorry for your loss. Thank you so much for your service and all you and your family sacrifice for all of us. Personally I’d sell the truck. Not sure how the motor blew, but I went to ram back in 2018. This truck has had so many quality issues and so many other issues with turbos and suspension and interior issues and leaks and all sorts of stuff. I was a ford guy and wanted to try something new. Wish I would have stayed with ford. The Cummins motor is a good motor but dodge/ram is shit quality. You’ll never get more than what it’s worth. Might as well keep it if that’s your thinking. Just because you invest in it does not mean you’ll get that back. Fix the motor and move on that’s my vote. That’s what I’m doing.

I seen guys that sell there original ride that they built there channel on and started with a different brand and lost a lot of subscribers, I know I will go if you get a ford or gmc, I watch all your stuff because I got 4gen 2016 ram 2500 my self, I would say get another Cummins and rebuild that from scratch make it bulletproof and then get that in your ride and you got a good ride there and you would have the option to paint the engine it self

Just keep it. You’re this deep into it. You’ll only lose money selling and modding new. Stage 1 motor. Has new trans. It’s ready to go after this

Time to go with 5.9

How much is the engine and how much would the payment be if you put that money towards a new truck you might be money ahead just getting a new truck rather than puttin money into a truck that’s got a blown motor

Keep it.

Sorry to hear about your brothers. Definitely get a built motor! Use that deployment money for a good cause 😈

Put in a rebuilt motor as the truck looks great

Keep it and build the motor. You in the military you’re not made out of money I know because I was there.

Hey Cam, first off I’m sorry to hear about your fellow MARINES. I do remember hearing something about that helicopter crash. As far as the truck goes Replace the engine and continue with what you had planned to do it. I have been watching this build since the beginning. You gave me ideas to do on my 2017 2500 megacab. So keep it, and with the new engine and transmission you will have a new truck. Again Cam I’m truly sorry about the loss of your fellow MARINES SEMPER FI 🇺🇸🫡🪖