This is my first post on the forum. I have been lurking for a while and have gotten a lot of good info here. Thanks for the forum.
I have an 83 F350 6.9 which I bought new, it has 112,000 miles on it. It is now using quite a bit of oil and during acceleration pukes out a tremendous amount of grey smoke. I have replaced the CDR but that was no help. I am now going to try replacing the valve guide seals and see if that helps cut down the oil consumption and smoking. The truck starts easily so I am hopefull that the compression is still OK. I don't have the tester to check it. The truck is in Baja, and lives there full time, it is now my "beater" truck. I have the Ford maintainence manual to guide me. I looked up the procedure and the book says to use a "valve spring compressor tool" T83T-6513-A, I don't have one, is this something that I could fabricate down here? I have a pretty complete shop. Next it says to install a seal guide on to the valve tip using tool T83T-6571-A using a light hammer, same question, is this tool something I could fabricate here?
My next question is which seals do I need? I see 2 different parts listed for the 6.9. First is a Felpro SS726281 Long oil sheild, and then there is a SS72628 Short oil sheild. I found these at RockAuto. How do I know which I need or maybe I should just buy both and bring them down.
Since I am doing this job about 400 miles away from the nearest reliable auto parts store I need to have everything with me when I get back here to do the job, so any and all help would be appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
Larry
PS One thing I just noticed in the Ford maintainence manual is the illustration of the valve spring assembly shows a stem seal on the intake valve , but no seal on the exhaust valve, did they originally come without a seal on the exhaust valve? The only thing that has ever been done to this enging is right after I bought the truck Ford did a recall and as I remember they replaced the heads, that would have been in late 83 or early 84.

 

No help here?

 

blue smoke doesn't mean your seals are bad.
how old are the injectors & the ip?????
they sure are alot easyer fix than pulling the head
a bad , leakey injector will do that, pluss a wore out ip

 

Do you have a valve spring compresser for a gasser? It will work for the 6.9 if you do. If you don't pick one up before you leave. This one should work. http://napaonline.com/Catalog/Result...&Dk=1&Dp=3&N=0
Can't help with the seals, as I have never done them.

 

https://www.ford-trucks.com/forums/7...lve-seals.html Have a read here, might answer some questions.
You don`t have to pull the heads to replace the valve guide seals.

 

Lazy K, Do you have all those threads that you link to saved? Tryed to send you some points, but said I had to spread it around.

 

farmert, no I don`t! I just use the advanced search feature.