I'm with everbody else, pull the valve covers and do some poking around. Also keep this in mind if you get a $3-5k quote from them.

Riffraff Diesel: Ford Enhanced Long Block

 

Already been in contact with clay about a new long block if it comes to it. Which I am thinking about doing anyways and just be back to zero miles.

I wish it was only 3000 dollars.

 

With it chugging like a locomotive out of the oil filler cap, I don't think it's a bent pushrod.

 

I am with every one else check the valve cover before going farther.

 

That's what I did and it wasn't it.

 

But they are two different problems right? Yours was a tick tick tick and his was just a BOOM.

 

No boom just all of a sudden heavy vibration and I guess it could be described as ticking but it def. has a considerable miss.

 

Any CEL?? Sounds like a UVCH connector let go.

 

would that make it chug like a chu chu train out the oil cap ???????

 

Dunno, but unless it blew the cap off, I'm not convinced what he saw was all that bad. I freaked the first time I looked at mine, but the cap sits on there just fine:
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Nope no check engine light.

 

A melted piston.

 

Sorry to hear about this.

 

Mine would have been a boom shortly IMO.
The compression on my old engine was better than the new one that I have in there now. I can tell that by the way that it runs cold in the morning. It won't diesel clatter and it billows 5x as much fuel smoke unless I drive it and heat up the combustion chambers.
The problem with mine was a mechanical knock knock knock knock that was audible on decel, injectors shut off.
Only thing that does that is a machining tolerance that has gotten too big and things are starting to slop around.
Whatever was going on was below the rings in the rotating assembly somewhere.
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Now on Superduty's engine, his symptoms are much different.
The definate engine miss and the chuff chuff chuff out of the oil filler cap can only mean one thing - loss of compression past that piston.
The engine miss is happening because these engine are compression ignition and without compression because of the melted piston = no ignition.

 

So with a loss of compression, what does that mean for the engine?