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HOLLY COW, thanks for the great info on doing the repair Sir!!! I have some of those tools at work so I will have to bring them home tomorrow. Thank you very much.
Okay, the driver's side bottom half of the stand pipe did not come out either. Is it going to be an issue if I leave the lower half of the stand pipe in place and install the top half with the updated o-ring system? If they are stuck in that good the bottom o-ring prolly is not leaking I would think.
The bottom o-ring on the driver's side dummy plug was worse than the passenger side. I took pics and will post them tomorrow.
Good stuff Mike
I was beating my head against the wall trying to find something in the tech folder....some things are better done with someone else's write up
Absolutely agree! Mike you went over and above the call of duty here (well you usually do). Turns out I had Rep points to give ya' as well as I PM'd John to see if he could pull the one post and put it in the Tech Section -- it would be an asset to us all there...
She starts hot now. Thank God and ALL of you guys here in this forum.
One thing I do notice now, and have NO reference because I never looked for it before, is upon shut down the HPO system pressure drops very fast. It goes from 580PSI to 14PSI in about ten seconds. Is this normal?
The one pic of the dummy plugs. The one in the top of the pic is from the passenger side and the bottom one in the pic is from the drivers side.
I would start with the dummy rail plugs. You don't need to touch anything on the top part of the engine to change those out. Only the valve covers need to be removed. Being a 2006 engine, I wouldn't be surprised at all, if the lower d-rings have deteriorated, causing your no-start hot issue. 580 psi at hot idle in park or neutral is dead on where it should be. Your IPR duty cycle at hot idle should be between 21 to 23%. Any much higher than that indicates a bigger high pressure oil system leak somewhere.
Originally Posted by LindenBruce
The portion of my original post highlighted in bold red font, along with the 2nd picture you posted after digging into it, tells me you should be satisfied your original issue is resolved.
BTW, those are really funky looking blue coloured valve cover gaskets. I've never seen that before.
Yeah, the lower o-ring on the dummy plugs was toast for sure. The o-rings on the upper half of the stand pipes did not appear to have any issues. BUT, since the new upper half of the stand pipes does have an update, those were installed also.
The valve cover gaskets are Fel-Pro VS50691R. Pretty aren't they? Kinda sorta Ford blue. LOL.
