Could someone please give advice on an easy or easier fuel injector removal guide. I have a Haynes manual and it says to remove the valve cover (right side) to unbolt the engine and lift the engine off the mounts? This all seems like alot of unnecessary work. I dont want to spend a day taking off stuff that I dont have to. I have a hopefully just a hydrolock situation. Thanks.

 

DONT LIFT the engine throw that haynes out

what year truck

just take the valve covers off and then the HPOR

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If its hydro locked take out glow plugs becareful with the wire harness

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Here you go it's in the tech folder. https://www.ford-trucks.com/forums/5...ml#post4357141

 

It is a 2005. I had ran low on diesel, well fuel thing said it could go about 50 miles but the fuel light came on and it started running rough. I didnt drive it for a few days but I did put 5 gallons of diesel in it that I had at home. I drove it a couple times and it started smoking alot and having a strong fuel smell at the exhaust. Someone told me that fuel injectors would cause that but other than the smoke it was running fine. Anyway I did an oil change and carried it down the road just to get it out since it hadnt been driven much recently. I let the turbo kick in a couple of times but not really any hard driving, got it up to maybe 80 or so mph but not stomping the hell out of it or anything. Well getting almost home after maybe a 8-10 mile drive and it starts running rough and making a loud knocking sound. I pulled it in the driveway and parked it. Came out to take a vid of the noise and when I turned the key it just made a low thud and the starter never turned over. I read somewhere that I probably blew an injector and that it hydrolocked. Im hoping that is all that it is and that the noise wasnt a rod knocking. I havent been around many diesels but I heard that a blown injector can sound like a rod so Im keeping my hopes up. Gonna do the job myself and didnt want to cross any bridges that I didnt have to. Thanks.

 

Also when driving it down the road the smoke at idle had went away and didnt notice any extra smoke when it was making the knocking sound. The engine light never came on and I have one of the cheap code readers (reader only) and didnt get any codes.

 

need to pull the glow plugs and do a mist test to see what one is stuck on and to clear the cylinder thats hydro locked

you may of also bent a pushrod that maybe your knock

 

+1 .

 

Pushrod doesnt sound too good. Could I be looking at a rebuild?

 

we see bent push tubes, it thats the case replace the tube and retest.

so far as removing motor mounts you were reading the econoline section.

 

The knock could also have been an overfueling knock. Get a scanner and see if it shows a contribution balance code. That may at least lead you to the side or cylinder that's affected without having to pull all the injectors.