severe oil loss
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From: parma
severe oil loss
Last week I changed the oil in my truck. On Sunday I used it to run a lawn mower to my son. On the way back my truck kinda bucked. I looked in the mirror and saw a big blue cloud of smoke coming from the exhaust. I looked down and the oil guage suddenly dropped to zero. I turned off the key and coasted to the berm. I started checking under the hood, and.....no oil on the dipstick. My buddy was with me and called his wife. She brought 5 gallons of Rotella to us. The truck took 2.5 gallons to be full. Only 100 miles on this oil change. The truck started after a little cranking. I drove it to his house. I went and got it home yesterday. I got the exhaust snake off and wiped the turbine with a paper towel. Lots of soot, but a small spot on the towel was wet. So I assume the seals in the turbo are bad. Stock turbo, no damage to the fins or casing. The intake side has some oil in the hose from the vent on the valve cover. Bearings actually are not sloppy. 238,000 miles. Injector o-rings and turbo pedestal done last year. Could just an oil change cause this problem?
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From: Tobyhanma, PA
You'll know when the turbo seals are leaking. It won't be a small spot. I literally messed up the drain and had oil back up and come out the seals. We're taking like a half quart a minute.
The oils going somewhere. Some is leaking out turbo you say. Try to look at everything you touched when the oil was changed. Physically go through the motions again and see if you find something out of whack.. that much oil lose should be easy to track down.
The oils going somewhere. Some is leaking out turbo you say. Try to look at everything you touched when the oil was changed. Physically go through the motions again and see if you find something out of whack.. that much oil lose should be easy to track down.
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From: knoxville, tn
Oil in the intake side is pretty normal with a stock CCV. Oil on the exhaust side is not so normal, but if it was leaking that bad there should be a lot of oil. I would double check everything then fire it up and let it idle. It should show itself if it is a bad leak
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Update on my truck. I pulled the turbo and changed the seals. I didn't see any accumulation of oil in the exhaust pipe or turbo. I drove the truck in town about 40 miles. Used 4 quarts of oil. When it's hot it really doesn't smoke bad. I started it tonight and it smoked like a bomb. I can smell the oil burning. It was a little hard starting. It was almost like half idle for about10 seconds and then smoothed out. I have to pull fuel filter again. With totally fresh oil I had no blackness on the filter before. Could I have a bad injector? Or am I looking at o rings again? Right from the start, all I did was change oil and used Delo instead of Rotella. Never had this issue before
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