Sorry I assumed these tests were done prior to the purchase.

Fire Rooster

 

Easy..........

 

I was wondering when that was going to come up. Took longer than I expected. Yes, I am kicking myself in the rear for it, as you can imagine. All I would have had to do is take off the oil fill cap and see a little puff of smoke rising up and it would have been a done deal. I know I am not going to fix this problem at Autozone. Just don't want to make it worse.

 

Don't kick too hard. You still haven't had a chance to drive the truck and see how it performs. The glass may be half full rather that half empty.

 

I did a carfacts on the rig before I bought it. It originally came from Oklahoma five years ago. So last night when I took the air inlet hose and such off there was a light dusting of that light brown Oklahoma clay on the inside of the tube. The fins on the turbo are chewed on the edges, nothing visibly broken. So, I am sure the turbo has sucked some or a lot of the dust through it and into cylinders where the pistons have polished the walls out of round or broke the rings or whatever. Around the CCV outlet on the breather tube it was gunky (oil and dirt I assume). Tomorrow I'm going to do the CCV mod and change all the fluids including the diffs. Then I'm going to drive the OLE FERD til she don't drive no more. Thanks for all the help from everybody!

 

my engine runs terrific - NO oil consumption - but it blow trough the o/distipk
in cold there is zero blow - what to do?
thanks a lot

 

What type of intake does it have?

 

all stock and air filter is the heavy duty Ford the blue one .

 

Start the eng. tack off the oil cap lay it over the hole if it blows off then it is worn bad if if vibrates off then all is good. My 96 at 350,000 started bad blow by but still started ok in warm weather and had to plug it in in cold weather. If finally give out at 513,000 but would still start and run just felt sorry for every one behind me from the blow by. I ran the hose out the rear of the truck because the fumes wre coming in the cab. But these old 7.3 eng. will run as long as you keep oil in them.

 

I've tried it all except new injectors & replacing the rings. Disconected the CCV hose from the filter intake, & ran the hose down the frame to behind the cab. Replaced the Injector outer o-rings, & turbo. New o-rings helped the smoking problem, but the turbo was a waste of money. Oil consumption got worse after I changed oil to 0W40 Synthetic. Tried a more expensive brand but still uses 2 L in 100 km & 10 mpg in my 2002 F550 with 126,000km. Disconnected the wire from the EBPV solenoid, to reduce sooting. Did a compression test. Lowest was 200 psi & highest was 320. There is some oil drops coming out the CCV hose, but with the boost pressure I can't see the pistons sucking oil into the cylinders. So I'm thinking there are some injectors leaking oil internally, causing the oil consumption. Not worth changing the injectors until I get the rings unstuck. What caused the rings to stick? Soot caused by the EBPV, or the increased chamfer on the piston rings 99-2003? We've got a 97 that runs like a top but this 2002 should have stayed on the drawing board. Comment about engine oil getting back to the fuel filter. I can't see it happening. The fuel filter bypasses excess fuel back the tank, but once the fuel gets to the fuel rails in the heads it can only go to the injectors & cylinders. There's no return from the heads.