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Old Dec 6, 2011 | 02:30 PM
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HPOP LEAKING AGAIN!!!!! HELP

so starting yesterday i noticed my truck was dripping oil......GREAT! i popped the hood and what do you know.....oil in the valley! No more than 3months ago i pulled the hpop and replaced all the gaskets and did the non serviceable plug. that ended up being the fix!

is there any way that this is the problem again? or may it be something else? I didnt think that it would only take 3 months to blow them again. IF it is indeed the same thing is there anything i can do to make it last more than 5k miles? and also i will be getting injectors in the future, should i just replace the hpop now with a terminator or adrenaline?

I appreciate all responses! Thanks and happy holidays!
 
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I had a leak in the valley that ended up being my HPX. It only leaked when under mid to full throttle, so you couldn't see it while poking under the hood. Just a thought.
 
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I had a leak in the valley that ended up being my HPX. It only leaked when under mid to full throttle, so you couldn't see it while poking under the hood. Just a thought.
That was my first thought but I looked to see if there was a trail of oil under my HPx but there wasn't
 
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Originally Posted by dj211
so starting yesterday i noticed my truck was dripping oil......GREAT! i popped the hood and what do you know.....oil in the valley! No more than 3months ago i pulled the hpop and replaced all the gaskets and did the non serviceable plug. that ended up being the fix!

is there any way that this is the problem again? or may it be something else? I didnt think that it would only take 3 months to blow them again. IF it is indeed the same thing is there anything i can do to make it last more than 5k miles? and also i will be getting injectors in the future, should i just replace the hpop now with a terminator or adrenaline?

I appreciate all responses! Thanks and happy holidays!
There is a possibility that one or more of the oil ports on the cylinder heads have began to leak and since these are high pressure ports, they can leak a substantial amount when at high rpm's.

I have to also ask if you waited the 24 hours for the LocTite to cure when you resealed the HPOP along with cleaning all of the threads oil-film free with brake clean? If not, you would have flushed out half of the LocTite as soon as you started the engine.
 
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