Hey Guys,
I know its been a long time since I've been on here but here's an update. I got a set of rebuilt injectors from Jim (1300) and put those in. Went out on a test drive and as I was coming back I blew a high pressure oil line coasted in the yard and 5 days and $240 later i was back up and running. The next day I was going to drive into town and as it was sitting there idling I noticed a pool of oil getting bigger and bigger so I crawled underneath and figured out the fitting where the dipstick tube goes in was leaking so I did what I could to tighten it up and it stopped. Anyone else have that problem? Not sure I resolved that entirely. The day after the oil leak happened I fired it up and was waiting for it to warm up when the weep hole on the water pump started leaking and that was it. I took it to a diesel shop and had them put a water pump, glow plug/injector connecters, reman turbo (if you recall the turbo fins where bent) that i purchased and a MBRP downpipe that I purchased on it. So about a week later I got it back and driving it home was great had real good power and a nice whistle from the turbo. I drove it to work the next day (still didn't start the greatest ??) The hole day at work I was dreaming of different chips and things I was going to do. On the way home everything was fine it was running great no problems then........
BANG!!! I hit a black Angus 1200lb heifer. So I had my truck in good running order or close to it for a little less than 24hrs. If you've got a front clip I may be interested.

 

OH dude!

That sucks so bad!!!!!!

 

Does anyone know if the radiator support from an idi would work if it was the same body style?

 

It should, cant guarantee that though.

Check your PM's I got some stuff for ya.

Diesel Rod

 

No, it won't. The core support has to be from a Powerstroke truck. Good luck finding one. They're getting really scarce and none of the aftermarket places make them for the PSD. A lot of them say they have a diesel core support, but they're the IDI style and wont fit the huge radiator that these trucks run. A lot of guys are either fixing up their old core supports or grafting the PSD bottom hoop (which is the major difference between it and the gasser core support) onto a gas core support.

Dude, that so incredibly sucks about your truck. A story like that makes me feel a lot better about my "bad" weekend.

 

Some of the early psd trucks used a radiator that looks very very similar to the idi radiator, no Degas bottle and it had a pressure cap on the top of the radiator.

Did the early PSD's use an entirely different radiator? I just assumed Ford was using up old inventory and that the support was the same.

Diesel Rod

 

Talyn should be able to answer that question better than anyone since he has the older style cooling system without the degas bottle. I think the radiator is the same size as the rest of the PSD trucks use, but he will have to answer that for us to be sure.

 

That sucks! sorry to hear... Sounds like you had put a lot of time & $$$$ into it recently just to have it ruined

Not to make it too OT, but does anyone have a pic of a 'core support'?

Sorry my noob is showing again. One of those "never had a need for one, so ive never looked at/for one" situations.
lol

 

Alex, this is a pic of the bottom of my core support. It's all oily to keep from rusting.

 

Alex, the big funny looking, rusty green thing (no, not that, that's my truck ) -- the one in front of the radiator in this picture -- that is the core support.



And this is what I did to mine:

 

Well I finally got the truck back from the body shop 3 weeks ago or so. Lookin pretty fine I might add! I have pictures of it if I had a way to post them. Now since I've been driving it I haven't had any issue with it starts and drives well with decent power smokes blue upon initial start up but I wouldn't think I'm alone there. But today I noticed a puddle of oil underneath it popped the hood and there's a lot of oil in the valley looks to be dripping from the hpop. I also noticed it was wet around the clamp on the turbo outlet and the turbo was a fresh reman not to say that it couldn't be bad still but I suppose this could also be from blow by? Any help appreciated! Getting real sick of having trouble with this thing!

 

If your turbo was leaking oil, I don't think it could get to the clamp unless the clamp is real loose. Maybe its spraying on there from your other leak?

Can you tell if the oil is leaking from the lines, hpop fittings, plug in the bottom, etc?

I use photobucket to post pics up. It would sure be nice to see yours.

 

It may be coming from the other leak I'll look into that but as far as the hpop it look like the bottom plug?? I have had no experience with these pumps but I can see a steady drip coming from the back of the pump? I just got signed up for photobucket. How do you post them here from there?

 

I think I'm figuring out this photobucket thing.

 

This is it the day I got it back!
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