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Message: [QUOTE="Dirtclod, post: 1310285, member: 20061"] Ok, my mechanic got my engine swap finished today. In unfortunately the new idm that was installed on my truck back in October was bad. It only lasted a week. I won't mention the name of the company cause sometimes things happens. My mechanic has one to put in it and it will be returned and shipped back. I don't think it would make a difference being a 2000 engine in a 2001 truck from a 2wd to a 4wd. My mechanic charges 1000$ to swap out an engine and 500$ to pull the the other engine. I had him to install the irate regulated return and I built my own sump and pre filter with post water separator bought from a local hydraulic shop. The mechanic didn't know anything about this system and he's probably got a day and a half labor just on the system.my advice to anyone doing this system would be go ahead and buy a complete system and install it yourself or a performance shop that's familliar with it. Not counting labor @850$ with the factory pump. And I bought all the parts up front and all the running around. I'm guessing labor will be @300$ for fuel system install. So 1150$ just for that. I suppose that's reasonable. Considering the fuel bowl was leaking like sift. Now there's the 01 engine. There hasn't been a diagnosis of why there was no compression while cranking. With engine out on the stand by turning the crank the cam shaft and hpop are working and pressure is coming out the exhaust. The idm is at this point being the culprit to the no start issue. I suppose a ring or dropped valve could be culprit but me not being a mechanic I'm not educated to say. We haven't set a labor cost for the 1000$swap because he's interested in the engine. However he said today he really didn't need it and asked what it is worth to me. Now I do know a decent running 7.3 engine is worth with 200k miles would be worth @8 to 1200$. Being mine has issues unknown except ipr valve, cam pos sensor and Icp are good along with turbo that is all worth at least 800$ to me. Breaking the engine down and rebuilding would be be an awesome learning experience. Which to me is worth a lot. I think 500$ and my engine plus the rest of the other truck plus I gave him a good intercooler degas bottle,2 transmission coolers and supplied all the parts and fluids and the running is fair price. Or 1200$ and I take the engine and factory turbo. Plus all piping. That being said he switched out a good injector for # 8 with a new one I bought. Plus he installed my non ebv pedestal and hi flow outlet. Since he does rebuild trucks to sale also what would be a fair price for this installation? And keep in mind there's no warranty except for parts I've bought. [/QUOTE]