head gaskets?
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head gaskets?
heres my problem, i have a 1986 6.9 diesel with 168,000 miles, i was driving it home from work and it started to miss really bad, and would barely stay running. it didn't overheat either, ran normal about 1/2 on the gauge and it was 86 degees here today. i poped the hood and on the drivers side head, in the hole where the glow plug is was half way filled with fresh coolant? i dried it all up with a rag, let it cool for awhile and restared it to see if it would fill up again and it didn't but it begain to run real rough again with a little white smoke when you rev it up.
there is a new gas filter and i cracked all the injector lines to see if it would changed the engine idle, all of them did but one, the 2nd injector back on the drivers side was dead and did nothing.
Sound to me like a head gasket? are these a pain to do, i did tons og gas engine head gaskets on older and newer vehicles buit never a diesl engine.
I have new injectors and a fuel line return kit. i was going to put in it this weekend but it also looks like i'm going to be putting in a head gasket as well, should i just put in a new injector pump while i'm at it as well?
there is a new gas filter and i cracked all the injector lines to see if it would changed the engine idle, all of them did but one, the 2nd injector back on the drivers side was dead and did nothing.
Sound to me like a head gasket? are these a pain to do, i did tons og gas engine head gaskets on older and newer vehicles buit never a diesl engine.
I have new injectors and a fuel line return kit. i was going to put in it this weekend but it also looks like i'm going to be putting in a head gasket as well, should i just put in a new injector pump while i'm at it as well?
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not sure if it accured to you but you are actually in the wrong forum section, not trying to shoo you out or anything im sure some of the guys in here wouldnt have an issue helping you out, but ill give a wack at it, from what you described it very well may be a head gasket, i urge you to drive this as little as possible, or very short distances, hydro locking can accure and cuase some pretty bad damage, not sure about the injector issue, did it loose power gradually? mabe be just a coincidence on finding the dead injector, and the 6.9 is very much different than the 7.3 complexity wise i dont think you will have to much of an issue changing the head gaskets
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