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Tried to get it home today, but it threw the rod. Thanks for everyone's help, though. Matt

Oil pressure is always at the halfway point, but when the idle starts fluttering, the oil fluctuates too. Thanks for the turbo rebuild thread, it helped a lot. Matt

You can have anything you want off the truck, I'm just 4 hours away.

I was thinking of parting it out, but I'm just at the point in my life where I don't want to be elbows deep in the engine anymore. I'm trying to get out of the trucking business. The 19.5 tires are down to 20-30%, The auto tranny has never let me down, but it (and the whole truck) has 180,000...

Thanks for all your help. At the moment it seems to be a spun bearing. The engine is rapping like someone is smacking a hammer against it as hard as they can. When I accelerate, the rapping gets faster. As the truck heats up, the idle starts fluttering until it stalls. I can keep it going...

Don't the fuel injectors get powered by oil pressure? I used to have a 7.3 and I thought they were.

95 GMC C3500HD 6.5 Diesel I just rebuild my turbo using a thread posted at 'the truckstop.us' titled: Rebuilding a GM8 turbo,show and tell - from user Bison. The thread was very helpful and the turbo worked great with the rebuild kit I used. However, you know the turbo oil return tube...