N14 overhaul kit

Where's the cheapest quality place to get an overhaul kit for a Cummins N14? Anybody had any experience with anyplace? The Cummins dealer is pretty pricy.

I haven"t had good luck using after market kits. Engines didn"t run right and burned oil. I would spend the monet and go with Cummins parts.

Check with different Cummins dealers. They compete with one another.

Well if you are thinking aftermarket kit, make sure the kit you are looking at matches the CPL of the engine. There are a lot of good aftermarket name brand kits out there. Too many people looking at price and not at the complete picture.

I just bought a nice overhaul kit from a place I found in the truck magazine. Highwayandheavyparts.com. The guy there had the kit shipped right to me, saved me a bunch of money, and I was also able to buy 6 new injectors from him with the amount of money I saved. Engines been back together for a couple of months with no problems.

You definitely want to look at the prices from different Cummins dealers or I used to buy Cummins parts from Freightliner or Volvo or International or even Ford and get Cummins parts for less that at Cummins.I have used aftermarket parts in Cummins with good results,but not a N-14.They have different pistons one or 2 piece and the sleeves are pressed in if I remember right.So between a Big Cam 4, 400 and a N-14 is quite a bit of difference in the parts.I think I priced a kit one time a few years back at about 2 thousand.I didnt look around,just one place.Its probably more than that.Older engines you could get a kit for about 700 dollars.
Truck Pro is one place to call.They probably have a place near where ever you are,with an 880 number,just call them up and ask.Be sure and use your CPL number and any other numbers they ask for.There are other companies like Inland Truck Parts,and others.Once I had the cheapest price I could get on the right after market parts,I would see what I could get genuine Cummins parts from Freightliner,Cummins,and Kenworth for.If I could get within a couple of hundred dollars I would use the genuine Cummins parts.If there was a lot of difference I would use the after market parts.
Years ago after market parts werent as good as now days.Like Cummins had developed a way of making pistons that nobody had down real good back in the early 1980s.One time way back,say 15 years ago,I was needing a piston,just one,to fix a truck,and I called and called and wasn't having any luck getting it,so I called the factory that made them.They told me they made pistons for Cummins.They also told me what number would work for my CPL.It was a lot different of a number than on the old piston that I had,but it was the same piston,or real close,and it costed a lot less through whoever they told me to call. So Im not so sure that genuine means all that it used to mean.Plus with the way factories have moved to China,I dont know if they even make anything like that in the USA now or not. So there is a chance that the after market and the genuine come down the same line.N-14 has hard liners and the old ones had 2 piece pistons that were real expensive.I think I would see what it would take to upgrade to newer cheaper one piece piston and see what that cost.By the time you change injectors and maybe heads,you will maybe have 2500 or 3000 in parts,just a guess.If you need a turbo,Truck Pro usually has Halset turbos which are good, for less than everybody else usually.
Its been a while since I did any work on a truck,or bought any parts,so my prices might be off some.I know I had about 3000 dollars in parts when I put new rings in a Detroit that I had,so if you can get pistons,liners,rings,heads,gaskets for under 3000 you are probably doing better than if you had a Detroit or Cat.Heads arent too bad either.Then injectors are high dollar at about 400 a piece.