Making oil....
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The big snap ring is the back of the HPOP. Lots of places places to leak there. It is below the fuel filter, not the oil filter.
If your making oil, and it still looks like oil, it is most likely fuel in the oil. Do not drive it like this, it will wipe out the bearings.
If your making oil, and it still looks like oil, it is most likely fuel in the oil. Do not drive it like this, it will wipe out the bearings.
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Looks like you've got a couple issues. Agree on getting an oil sample. As to the HPOP leak, just above that snap ring is a plug that may have a blown o-ring. Also, look real hard at the HPOP oil lines coming out of the HPOP. I've had leaks at both places. If it's one of the HPOP connectors, you'll need a tool to remove the oil lines. The plug behind the pump is an easy fix. But, you better use either guzzles o-rings or fords. A similar looking o-ring won't work!
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This is not the source of the extra oil. No fuel is in the engine until the heads. The only real sources are injectors, orings or cups. O'Rings should result oil in fuel, not the other way around, but it could be leaking in when shut off or running in cylinder and past the rings when it off. Could be a cracked cup allowing fuel behind it and up into the VC? Or a bad injector dumping fuel when its off, but the amount your seeing should have caused it to hydro-lock by now. Also possible,but not likely, the head is cracked allowing fuel in the oil.
Pull the fuel filter and let us know how it looks.
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I see where the OP is goin with the HPOP. He fills the oil pan cavity to F mark (or close), drives it abit, lets it settle, to get accurate reading, just to be surprised, its "making oil". If the HPOP was bad/leaking down internally, then yes, i can see how its "making oil".
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I see where the OP is goin with the HPOP. He fills the oil pan cavity to F mark (or close), drives it abit, lets it settle, to get accurate reading, just to be surprised, its "making oil". If the HPOP was bad/leaking down internally, then yes, i can see how its "making oil".
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I see where the OP is goin with the HPOP. He fills the oil pan cavity to F mark (or close), drives it abit, lets it settle, to get accurate reading, just to be surprised, its "making oil". If the HPOP was bad/leaking down internally, then yes, i can see how its "making oil".
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Fuel thins the oil, but it looks the same. Diesel is just real thin oil itself.
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4 quarts = 1 gallon, 12 quarts = 3 gallons.
I just pulled the fuel filter, nothing out of the ordinary for a filter with 2500 miles on it.
I just pulled the fuel filter, nothing out of the ordinary for a filter with 2500 miles on it.
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I was referring to the 2" on the stick it was up.
If the filter isn't black you don't have oil going into fuel, so it is only going one way.
Did the sample you pulled smell like Diesel?
If the filter isn't black you don't have oil going into fuel, so it is only going one way.
Did the sample you pulled smell like Diesel?