found a great website
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Molon Labe
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From: Alaska
found a great website
Came across this site while watching youtube videos, it is full of info on powerstrokes, and has lots of how-to maintenance videos.
I have been glued to it all day.....I cant believe how much i've learned.
Just thought I would pass it on.
www.powerstrokehelp.com
I have been glued to it all day.....I cant believe how much i've learned.
Just thought I would pass it on.
www.powerstrokehelp.com
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drain your hpop oil or else!!!! But really though, he's done alot of work on the trucks, however has no clue whatsoever how most of it works/functions, and why. He is correct to a certian point on some stuff, but usually that point comes very quick in his videos, and goes downhill from there.
If you are interested in learning more about a 7.3, you would be much better off spending your time searching on here and doing alot of reading
, and other places such as guzzle's or RHN.
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If you're not familiar with anything under the hood of a 7.3, there is a lot you can learn from those videos. Just don't follow his advice blindly. Some of his videos are incomplete, inconsistent, misleading, of just plain wrong.
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i do suck out my pump now and then after seeing that clip..but thats only cause my reservoir does not have a screen in it to help filter out the dirtier thicker stuff that settles to the bottom..
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I checked out my pump for the first time at 236k. I had changed the oil recently and the oil in the pump looked just as clean as what was in the pan.
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I think all that does Ron is help change more of the old oil that doesn't come out when you pull the drain plug. Kris posted some pics a while back of the oil passage through the front cover (bottom half of the HPOP reservoir) and I don't see how you will accumulate anything in there aside from a thin film on the walls which changing the oil won't help.
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I think all that does Ron is help change more of the old oil that doesn't come out when you pull the drain plug. Kris posted some pics a while back of the oil passage through the front cover (bottom half of the HPOP reservoir) and I don't see how you will accumulate anything in there aside from a thin film on the walls which changing the oil won't help.
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I have been though 3 turbo's..a lot of aluminum, tin and what ever else gets into the oil when a turbo goes..some time its alot before you find out the wheel has been hitting.. that also ends up up top..now I just try to do it now and then for a piece of mind...i cant run down town to get a new injector
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Have you considered installing the screen Ron? Is your front cover shaped different where the screen won't fit? Where's your pic of the broken gasket in the reservoir? I believe the screen should fit yours.