taking bets?
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From: Elk City, OK
cavitation... #7 cylinder.... let it sit for more then like 45 seconds and the cylinder is hydrolocked. so i have to pull the glow plug, crank it over to clear it out then put it back in and fire it up. oil getting in coolant, coolant vapor in the blowby big time, coolant vapor coming out of the exhaust. just gonna keep drivin it til it takes a dump. starting the 6.9 build up next week. if it dumps before i get that engine done im gonna throw in my spare 7.3l and hope for the best.
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From: Malahat/Cowichan Valley
well i drove mine for 45 days before my replacement came in. Oil in coolant the entire time, same hydrolocking issue about 50% of the time, but i just cranked it over till it fired!! lol. I could have cared less but it made it the entire time, hahah. so i bet a long time say a month at least.
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lol, i'd be happy with a week before im ready. if it craps out on me im gonna throw in my turbo block. then run that til it dies or til my 6.9 is ready
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one thing that i have learned from runnin on borrowed time is that it runs out at the exact moment that will just make you say more words than you should and pry even come up with a few of your own in the process
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thats ok you still have 7 cylinders left haha they'll get you by
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For you: It won't. You'll have your other engine ready to re-install and the old motor will carry you over.
For me: 100+ miles away from the house, in construction, pouring down rain, in the dark. Cell phones dead, charger in my other car. Wife yelling the whole time to help make the situation better.
VT247
For me: 100+ miles away from the house, in construction, pouring down rain, in the dark. Cell phones dead, charger in my other car. Wife yelling the whole time to help make the situation better.
VT247
