Coolant leak help
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Tuned
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is ambient here is not cold. I think ford says EOT below 70f is a cold start.
yeah maybe I’m chasing perfection. I noticed that the contributions seem to float around a bit. One may go a little low and the other a little high and then they switch. Nature of the beast. I’m just happy it’s code free and idles smooth as glass.
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Update: truck has been running good. I have about 5,000 miles on the overhaul. Noticed a little oil after a 6 hour trip down by the front cover regulator spring. Nothing crazy but a few drips. Could be the front seal hard to say. I noticed I’m about a quart low. Engine is consuming some oil still. Blowby seems ok though. I seem to be collecting oil in my intercooler piping.
could this be a turbo charger oil seal issue?
could this be a turbo charger oil seal issue?
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my new theory is that I have overfilled my 6.0 powerstroke by having the oil level at max. It seems that when I do this I’m at 15-15.5 quarts. And I loose about a quart or so over time. It seems to always end up back toward the lower end of the dipstick. Kinda wondering if I’m overfilled and foaming the oil until it gets back down. I noticed on my 500 mile trip some idle surfing again after it was good and hot 640 rpm and it would surge up and down maybe 25 rpm where it usually holds within a few rpm of 640. In thinking a warm engine heat soaked, overfilled with oil, and high rpm for long periods 2200-2400 are contributing to what I thought was oil loss but maybe I’m just whipping the oil until enough disappears. Just a theory. I hear some folks say these engines are very sensitive to overfill. I imagine the HPO system hates air