I might have gone one better. When my intercooler had about 275 K miles, I inspected the internals.





When I saw all the condensation in there, I was rather satisfied that a coating of oil helped to prevent corrosion.

 

^^ never looked at it that way Tug. Me, having R.R. boots, mine are still an oily mess.

 

Fair enough. Like I say this is a personal preference mod that can be argued either way thats why these kits exist.

 

I can't give any scientific input whatsoever but I don't see a little oil in there hurting anything, the engine will burn it and I'm not fond of fixing things that aren't broken. Then Tugly's steel in the intercooler puts the icing on it for me, I thought they were all plastic in there.

 

Trust me, Tug has done more than his share of 7.3 teardowns.....

 

With due respect to Tug, I don't think he's torn down a single 7.3L PSD. He's tore INTO them many times (injectors and what-not), but never the engine itself, to my knowledge.

Tug, if I'm wrong, apologies, but I can't remember you ever posting about tearing an engine down.

Stewart

 

Well, call me a hick, but anytime you're damn near stripping every part off these things AND giving it a partial Proctology exam to Boot, That's a tear-down in my book, Okay let's call it a PARTIAL teardown, done a lot of times......Potato, patato......

 

Again, I disagree.

You can tear into an an engine (eg: under the valve covers, the glow plugs, valve springs, injectors, exhaust manifolds, etc) but actually tearing down an engine means parts of the block and internals are being removed. Making a long block a short block, removing the crank, the cam, the pistons, etc.

It's not potato vs potahtoh. It's apples versus oranges. Two different things all together.

To me a partial tear down means removing a cylinder head (or heads), but not the engine internals.

If an engine is torn down, the block itself has been taken apart, If an engine has been torn into, then the block and it's internals are still together, and peripherals are being taken apart.

Stewart

 

I acquiesce to your unbounded supply of Knowledge and sense of definition.......

 

Wow that kit is expensive

 

You can put your own kit together for less by using heater hose. The only issue is that the heater hose gets soft and leaches oil over time and is easy to get a kink in. I know that Riffraff and some others use fuel rated hose on their kits so it won't do that and can last to long term use but it does raise the price. Last time I did it 3/4" fuel rated quality hose was about $6 per foot and it made putting the kit together myself more than just buying it.

 

With respect to Tugly, all International engines came with the CCV vented to the atmosphere through a "Road Draft Tube" and that is what the engine was designed for. The engine doesn't care one way or the other, you can run it how you want, but I prefer the CCV mod because it keep everything clean. Beyond that reason it doesn't really matter, run it how you want.

 

Far (FAR) from unbounded.

Very (VERY) bounded...yeah, very bounded indeed. But in this case, I did sleep at a Holiday Inn Express.

Stewart

 

Where should I run the hose . I found a crank case filter at auto zone its a metal canister with an 3/4 inlet and an 1" outlet . Seems like it will do good .

 

Search some threads and you will see lots of reasons not to use a filter. They are too restrictive. Just vent to atmosphere or leave it stock.