so this truck alway been baby its whole life lol its a 02 and only has 65k miles on it. its been towing a big *** montana fith wheel. and yesterday went out to west sac to get a cnn card so i can start using biodiesel. and when i came home parked on my drive way. i saw oil dripping out. so i took pictures to see what the problem is so anyone that can help pleaase let me know! lol im so new to this truck.




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You need to look up on top of the engine, down under everything into the valley and see if the oil in in the back side or front side. If it is on the high pressure side, you may be able to see it leaking while running. It is probably a blown o-ring and hopefully not to bad to fix.

 

crawl up ontop of the motor,with the engine off.Check to see if there is any oil in the valley of the motor.If there is it could just be some o-rings ,but check that first.You have to really look around the turbo pedistal and the HPOP lines.Its hard to see back there so take the time and look real well.

 

HPOP O rings or Turbo pedastol O rings is my guess

 

Nope it's the turbo base!

 

Sactown,

Are you a member of the Montana Owners Club?

We pull our Monty with a 7.3 PSD 450. In the past we have had an oil leak in that area. It has always been the HPOP O rings. We are now out of warranty so will have to pay for this one! About how much is the going to cost?

HamRad

 

Hamrad,I don't know if you just don't want to do it or what.But if that is in fact were your leak is you can save alot of money and do it yourself.Here is what you need to buy.Here is an instruction sheet from International/Ford on how to do it.
And welcome to the forum.

 

Bruce,

Thank you so much. My problem is that I am disabled. I'd love to crawl under the rig and turn a nut or two. But once I got down I'd never get up! <G> But I have a brother who also has a 7.3 and he still can get under and up and I'll take it to him with the instruction sheet. Thank you so much.

Dennis (HamRad)

 

HamRad.
no im not part of the mont club. been looking to find a local california one. but yeah my truck is out of warranty too. uh im not to sure havent asked a local diesel shop. not sure what the leak is actually. i looked at the turbo and felt around there and in the valley. and could feel or see any oil.

 

I think he meant Montana RV owner's club.

 

Mark,

Thank you. I did not make myself clear. Yes. I was referring to the Montana Owners Club. It is an RV club. It is a nationwide group. Actually we have members from all over the world. We currently have about 4K active members. It is basically a social club. We exchange ideas and discuss various issues with the various Montana trailers.

By the way we have several members around your area. We also have a Rally scheduled for the Memorial Day weekend at Lake Siskiyou which is near Mt. Shasta. You are welcome to attend.

Just do a search for Montana Owners Club in Google and then log in and register. It is like this Forum...... Free. <G>

If you have further questions drop me an email or PM. I assume you can do that from this Forum.

Thanks.

HamRad

 

ya sorry thats what i ment. okay sounds good. i think im actually working that weekend but will keep you update. oh and i just got the truck back from the dealership. it was the hpop itself so they replaces that. and it was bout 517$ but there is a oil leak still but i think its jus the left over oil in the valley because they told me they didn have time

 

Sactown7.3l,

Sorry to hear about the HPOP. Mine leak has always just been the "O" rings. And last time I had it fixed it took me 5 visits to get it stopped! They finally got all the oil cleaned out but it took them a long time to get it right.

There is a lot of good info at the Montana Owners forum. Lot's of nice folks.

Thanks for the post and hope to see you on down the road.

HamRad