Brad Clayton

Damn, that sucks. At least they contacted you so it wasn't a total surprise the next morning.

Oh I have burned that idea into my brain, and will be checking that first from now on.

Eesh!

Anyone had one of these out yet? The book says to remove the engine and transmission together out the bottom to get the trans out. I have today off and was informed that this will be my job for tomorrow, so I was reading ahead on what's involved.

6.0L High Pressure Oil Leaks This is a journey down a road I seldom travel. The vehicle involved in this story is a 2006 F-350 equipped with a 6.0 liter powerplant. The truck was towed to the shop. The truck would start and run, but for only a few minutes. I monitored the usual suspects with IDS and noticed that the IPR PID was at 85% after start up. A truck that will idle with an IPR reading of 85%, will exhibit a major oil leak and is usually within the injectors themselves. I have dealt with this in the past and replaced injectors with good success. Complete injector replacement is an expensive repair and not something that you want to guess as being the fix. The owner of this truck was on a shoe string budget and wanted the truck back with the minimal amount of work possible to get it running. I removed the valve covers and noticed it had 10mm hex plugs in the rail. The egr cooler had been deleted so I had easy access to the HPOP. I removed the oil pump and the STC fitting was worn completely out. While the pump was out, I took the opportunity to air test the system. I made this tool from an old STC fitting. I applied 100 psi to the system and air started leaking around the injector tops. Here’s where my problems started. In the past I would have jumped on the injectors and sold all 8. In the back of my mind I was never completely sure why/how/or if they were bad. This time around, I sold injector seals thinking this was the fix and I could save this guy a ton of money. I removed all the injectors and resealed them and the oil rails. I did notice, however, that the injector inlet orings did not look too bad (red flag). This was a bit of an annoyance and I pressed on. The truck was reassembled with a new STC fitting update and 12 mm rail plugs, actually all the orings on the rails were replaced. Last but not least, I did an oil change. Red flag number 2: The oil filter stayed in the housing. I had to pry it out with two pry bars and then the oil did not drain. I removed the oil with a suction gun and found about an inch of crud in the bottom of the housing. I scraped out as much as I could and then poured some fresh oil in. I got the drain valve working and buttoned it up. At this point it’s quite obvious that this engine has not been well cared for. Oh well onward ho, I started the truck and noticed the IPR was at 37%. Uuuhhmmmm. I secretly hoped this was due to air in the oil rails, but twas not the answer to my immediate question of “what the f@&k”??? The longer the engine ran the higher the percentage climbed, until it finally stalled. Now there was a great amount of denial as to what and why this was happening, followed by an equally greater amount of retesting. I spoke with Bruce on the issue and he urged me to re-air test through the ICP port. I knew this test was needed but just hated to go back there. I removed both valve covers and ran the engine and oil was exploding out of the injector tops. I re-air tested and had, you guessed it, air leaking at the injectors to oil rails junction. I realized I was not going to get anywhere with all these components in the chassis. So I made a test rig to check everything on the bench. I went to the hardware store and bought these items to build a rig to hold the injectors into the rail while applying air to it. The holes in this bar were reamed just a bit so the injectors would line up evenly. Making the plates. Lastly, it was all assembled and ready for use. This is a video of air being applied and the results, it’s impossible to read the gage at the end but it was a little over 40 psi. I removed the first injector and packed the exhaust ports with grease to verify the air was coming from the ports. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0EfcQ59lKo This is about the same video just not as clear and it has me narrating. I was concerned that the loud ass heater in the shop was going to cause issues with audio but it turned out that the air leak was more of a problem than anything. I had to subtitle that section so if you want to hear any of my boring comments make sure the “cc” button is on. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zj4bEn5v8cY This video talks about the spool valve. I would have liked to mic’ed the valve and bore and compared it to a new injector but that didn’t happen. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXzDqdx17xI Last video is just a re-air check after tinkering with the spool valve, again fire up the caption button. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QandyL9uuU I was able to score some perfectly good used injectors and I stuffed them in this engine. The engine ran like a champ or as good as could be expected. The real fix for this truck would be an engine due to the abuse and lack of maintenance. The customer was advised on this and is motoring around the state in the meantime. In other words he will run it ‘til it breaks again. I gained some valuable lessons from this experience, mainly not to overlook problems that are staring you right in the face.

The whole channel is sheer GOLD!!!! There is a different pic on the wall in every vid.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bt9zSfinwFA

First time using it, had no clue how it would look on anything other than the phone itself. Now I know and will give it a try next time. This thing is a powerful little phone and all I ever do with it is make calls and text. I've tapped about 1% of it's capability's.

I was running a 73 Ebox today looking for a stubborn fuel leak and decided to make a vid with my S4. Dorkin around really. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grBt5zuwywI&feature=youtu.be

Works for Dodge Neon's.

Damn son, that hand looks like something out of a Rob Zombie movie!

Fuckin' A, that is bitchin' :rockon:

Reminds me of the elementary school game of telling one person at a time something and then seeing what you got at the end of the line.

My kinda place.

It is a nice perk! The only thing I really long for now is that 18k lift.

Clockwise from bottom left: '03 60 ICP sensor and connector full of oil, '06 60 massive high pressure oil leaker, '06 60 2 weak injectors (when cold) and y-pipe and exhaust manifold gaskets, '07 60 random stalls (this is the one with the compromised 5 volt ref.), 03 60 HPOP took a dump.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9U4Ha9HQvMo

I'd buy it on the cheap for sure.

Tangless bearings. I cant believe they dont all spin.

I spoke with a fellow that towed the same goose neck trailer and same load (iron stoves) all the time. When he originally spec the truck, he was wearing front tires at an alarming rate. He invested in rear air bags just to help get a little more weight on the front end and started getting 50 to 80k out of a set of front tires. He said it was the best thing he ever bought for it.

That's a badass website!

I gave the other pic a 5 star rating, quite an awesome pic. Like National Geographic photos!

Wind chill affects washer fluid.

We performed a combination of Rescue 911 and or thawing out the truck in the shop. Our shop was kinda limited on space though.