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these engines run on Diesel, engine oil, atf, jack oil, brake fluid and cooking oil
anything above will burn in the combustion chamber unless there is too much of it and then you get smoke
Smoke usually comes from exht seal on turbos, dead hole/low compression or injector leaking by and that usually makes for hydro lock or black smoke
thsnks for all your help thus far. I’m not ignoring your advice at all. Just haven’t done the compression test yet 👍
who knows the history of the vehicle with the previous owner. Hopefully they treated it well. It was a 2 owner truck before me. The guy I got it from had it a year. The original owner bought it new
Making progress on my way to putting the turbo back in. New fuel filter housing and fuel pump. OEM from Riffraff. Not sure I routed the harness correctly. But I don’t feel like pulling it back out at the moment. Cleaned out the valley of the engine. Just waiting on turbine housing and heat shield to arrive tomorrow. Will put truck back together after work i hope. See what happens.
wish me luck reinstalling the t-4 to the back of the turbo. Those lower bolts are gonna be a B.
Also this winter on a different OBS I replaced the pump and fuel bowl. It almost didn’t start due to the air in the system. Could I just fill the fuel bowl up with diesel manually before starting to crank on it? Out with the old New fuel filter housing. ( I find it easier just to buy a whole brand new setup.) RR Diesel was out of stock. Believe it or not Home Depot had OEM motor craft in stock. So I snagged one and had it shipped to the store last week. New fuel pump (fuel lines were replaced earlier this winter. I should’ve done everything back then with the fuel system. Just didn’t have the $$$) FPR Screen on old fuel bowl COMPLETELY BLOCKED/CLOGGED Another angle of FPR Fuel bowl somewhat dirty and gritty. I cleaned it out a few months ago. But couldn’t get it all. I believe this was the OEM fuel bowl and fuel pump. I had a diesel leak in the valley also Flatbed makes for a great work bench 😃
ID highly recommend replacing the fuel lines from head to bowl if they are original(they appear to be) while you are in there.
These are getting old and brittle at this point and seem to be more failure prone once disturbed. Riff raff sells both the motorcraft lines and a coted stainless braided version of their own.
ID highly recommend replacing the fuel lines from head to bowl if they are original(they appear to be) while you are in there.
These are getting old and brittle at this point and seem to be more failure prone once disturbed. Riff raff sells both the motorcraft lines and a coted stainless braided version of their own.
It’s on the list of to do’s. Can’t do it all right now financially. But hopefully that doesn’t bite me..my funds are dwindling 😳 I thought about doing that. I’ve just dropped so much $ into this thing lately. I hope it holds up. My luck they’ll fail now .. 😱
Yup on the lines, my son's 95 had a fuel leak Wednesday, I touched the driver's side line and it broke in half. Lucky for him I keep a pair in stock, now hopefully he replaces my stock!
