first off i a have a 2004 f250 with 194,000 miles on it just did and oilchange less then 500 miles ago plus fuel filters!!! i just got back from a trip on sunday and when i got in my truck monday everything was fine dropped the kiddos off at school and when i got back to my truck and started it up a huge pile of white smoke came pooring out of the tail pile and then went away!! well i went to go to work this morning and tried to start my truck this morning it wouldnt even crank over like the motor is locked up!!! i did pop the hood and notice all my coolent is gone!!! i am ready to light this thing on fire lol!!! any suggestion on what i can do or is this a loss cause? thanks guys!!!

 

Gonna have to pull the glow plugs to get the coolant out of the hydrolocked cylinder(s) and then hope its just a bad EGR cooler. If you do the EGR cooler do the oil cooler as well as that is what caused the EGR cooler to fail. Unfortunately the only other possibility is a blown head gasket.

 

I guess another possibility is cracked injector cups but I don't know if that would be enough to hydrolock it.

 

if it is a blown head gasket would there be water in the oil?

 

Just in case nobody else mentions it...if you pull your glow plugs to check for a hydro locked cylinder be very careful not to be facing the holes when you turn over the engine. Any liquid will be forced out at high pressure that could cause serious injury....

 

thanks for the heads up literally!!!

 

Possible egr cooler rupture also, since it sits over the passenger side of the motor and plumbed into the passenger side uppipe, any rupture here and the coolant leaks down inside the exhaust side of the cooler down the passenger side manifold and into your exhaust
Valves and into the cylinder, causing your hydrolock.

Of course this is a guess, but pull the egr valve and see if it looks wet in there, then, if it does, pull the passenger side glow plugs, pull ficm relay and crank it till she chooches all the coolant out.

 

do you see coolent dripping from any of the gloplug or cylinders on the side of the heads or block? dont try to start this could be fatal to the motor,also check your heater core for the leak? how does the oil and what coolent left look?

 

any updates??

 

the degas bottle is empty and i dont see and leaks anywhere!!! i checked the oil and there is no water in it!!! thank god!!! i had a buddy give me a quote to do everything for about 1200.00 bucks is this a good deal?

 

I'm assuming this is to repair the egr cooler? If so, it is not a bad price. If you repaired it yourself, the cooler is only $350 for a bullet proof one. I would do it myself, 1200 is a lot of money, but repairing the egr cooler should go ahead and do oil cooler too while it is apart

 

no 1200 includes the oil cooler aswell as the egr cooler and all the labor!!! and its a buddy of mine who works for ford!!

 

Go for it!

For the average joe it takes all weekend to do this job, took me 4 days and I was taking my time, it is a lot of work, and the turbo uppipes are a PITA to line back up, I would not Do this work for less than that

 

For $1200 including parts and labor, I wouldn't be getting my hands dirty, I'd be standing there holding his beer and handing him wrenches!

Let us know how it goes!

Brian

 

i also wanted your guys opinion he gave me the option to do an egr delete kit is that worth doing and getting rid of the cooler? i live in florida and we dont have emissions down here!!! or shoul i keep it all OEM?