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Did I make the right choice?

You don't need to worry about bulletproofing the engine at the moment. Your main concern is it's current health, leaks, fixing the miss, and oil pressure.

Leaks is just a need to know. With this much blowby it will leak. You just want critical ones fixed like oil cooler lines. (And turbo lines.)

It's not in daily driver shape. You seriously need to park it until you know why it's missing. You need to know what the real oil pressure is after an oil change. Absolutely get an oil sample to see if the engine is eating itself alive. Then it's your call if you want to grind up what's left till it quits or bulletproof a replacement. If your lucky you can do some fixes and get a lot of miles out of it.

I do recommend a AAA membership. This gets the truck home so you can work on it.
 
Well of course I'm not concerned on bulletproofing the pile right now. The oil leak is coming out from the oil line that comes out of the bottom of the turbo. The misfire still haven't looked at. And i don't have the funds to get an oil sample done and this is the only rig I have after I traded my car and my wife's car is still down because of a cracked radiator. Which really puts me in one helluva bind and I work 30 miles away.
 
If you have a hand held pyrometer you can find the cylinder that isn't firing because it will be much cooler at the exhaust. That method works best on gas motors but still works on dieselsome. Those can be had for 20 or so bucks
 
If things are as rough as you say, I'd put it up for sale or trade and with a little luck someone else will want it more than you, there are always other rides in maybe better shape..

By the sound of things your going to get stranded at some point with this one..
 
I'll try taking it to a local salvage yard or something see if I can try trading for another better vehicle
 
Cracked radiators is a normal thing growing up in Vegas, post a pic of the wife's radiator, I have used jb weld (24 hour cure, not 5 minute) and saved several radiators.
 
Yeah I should've listened to my family and friends and not have done this I'm as bout as disappointed as everyone else on what I've done. And my wife is just ordering a new radiator so
 
THE94CHEV said:
Yeah definitely a learning experience and won't make the same mistake if they do accept it and take it.
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Maybe this next statement will comfort you some....

I maybe have the most disgust here, I have a new P400 motor here on a stand, I got very aggressive porting the heads and broke through on one head... that makes both heads scrap on a new motor, cost so far over 2K and still not fixed, ordering another set of heads and WILL start over, just will remember how far to go this time I hope...

We all do stupid things in life, at least you aren't out attempting to protest and standing in the road like a dumb ass...
 
If you do decide to dump it, make sure you do so while it's still running somewhat. If it pops an oil cooler line or blows a hole in a piston, then you are back down to scrap value. I'd come help you out if you weren't half way across the country from me.
 
Right. It'd be great to have a more knowledgeable person help but yeah pretty unlucky living far up near Canada
quadstar87 said:
If you do decide to dump it, make sure you do so while it's still running somewhat. If it pops an oil cooler line or blows a hole in a piston, then you are back down to scrap value. I'd come help you out if you weren't half way across the country from me.
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