lmorris

Are you quoting your friend Jim?

The van has 250,000 km on it. Further inspection of all the spark plugs reveals the front plug on the left bank and rear plug on the right bank also had signs of coolant on them. This is the first time I saw this on my van, but then it hit me, Way back in the days before I was all diesel all the time I used to do intake gaskets for this same issue. Threw a set of plugs at it for now and will do intake gaskets next weekend. I will also look for the hole in the valve cover mentioned. Thanks guys. Valve cover turned out to be fine, no hole. The culprit was the intake gaskets. The bottom portion of all the intake port seals were not sealing and sucking in oil. Suprisingly though was the fact that the coolant ports were fine. And I got 250,000 km before having to do them.

My van, over the last 2 months has oil fouled 3 sets of plugs. I have changed the PCV valve and air filter. Redone upper intake gaskets, cleaned oil out of upper the last time. There seems to be a lot of oil in the PCV tube to the intake. I remember there being an updated valve cover for oil carry over but it doesn't seem to apply to my van. Any one have or know of this issue? I really need help on this one. I don't want to just throw parts at it.

Was just talking to one of our customers. His new truck, loaded with a welder setup and pulling his holiday trailer, was put up against his buddies new chevy with exact same load. They even had them wieghed. The Ford kicked ASS. He says to me, "Why the hell would you want to chip this, it's more than enough now."

That shot to the knee affected you more than we would have thought.

Upgrade your engine oil cooler to the oil to air type instead. You will gain more from that than the EGR cooler delete. And you will keep Jim happy.

When you say 45PSI, is that underload? There is a kit available with a valve that can simulate full load fuel flow when testing at an idle. 45 PSI is low enough to fail. If 45 PSI is your no-load reading, it is possible that #7 injector maybe starving for fuel under load, thus causing a failure.

I am assuming hotline was concerned more about the injectors than anything else.

First time I ever had issues with these hotline actually told me to remove the screens because the main filter was good enough.

I remember when that $19.00 kit used to be over $100.00.

Snapon I bought this, not to expensive, but it doesn't quite work as good as they say. Just thought I would throw that out there.

Most trucks we get in that require these tools also require a gas axe to get the fasteners out. I just lift the cab and use really good sockets.

Don't ask to borrow my tools and I won't ask to bang your wife.

Dwayne...Are you the one who shot him....? I use "my kids are sick" for getting a day off. Thats a little extreme Jim. "he picked this particular time to move his pellet rifle away from the back door (he's having stray critter troubles). " That's a good one, I will have to remember it for my next shooting.

What's a little harmless gun play between friends? Seriously though, Hope it all turns out well for you.

Orings changed last night. Filled and marked the res. No drop this morning. Thanks for the replies.

I agree with Jim. If the issue was the truck, I would say let him have it. Seeing as this was personal, I think the damage is done. This guy is going to wonder about this for awhile.

Been doing that for years on reg. and extended cab 6L when the up-pipes went on those too. You can just slide it around the turbo on the driver's side. And was faster that pulling the turbo. Especially when it was an 03/04 with the first design pedistal. Never though to do it on the 6.4L though. Good tip. Thanks.

Only for cold start performance.

Up until taking the 6.7L diesel course, I assumed the glowplug heated the air in the cylinder. During the course it was shown to us that the 6.7L uses the glowplug to ignite the fuel and not heat the air. I bring this up because that was the only question I got wrong on the diesel theory test on this site. Discuss......

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Seen on the back of a race teams trailer. "My drinking team has a racing problem!" My favorite: A bad decision on your part does not necessarily constitute and emergency on my part. My parents named me Leon, because they couldn't spell Bleeuck.

And that right there is the one reason I stick with fixing diesels.

So does this have anything to do with the message to connect to the network before doing a reprogram? I get this often and I am positive I have the calibration needed on the IDS. Besides, it takes very little time to download. Is it possible the IDS also records this code without us knowing, and they get randomly checked? Just a thought.

The check ball is there and feels pretty tight. Are you refering to the check valve which gets closed by the filter? If so, it tested good on the bench with some oil. The orings are pretty flat, so we will change them and let it sit overnight and see what happens.