KrisML
Active Member
So an I posted in the carnage thread I had a slight issue with my 6.5 over the weekend. Little back story first.
The truck had been having transmission issues for a while and between lack of either money or time it took me about a year and half to finally fix it. So I finally get the trans fix and go for a test drove around the block. Truck starts acting like it's out of fuel. So after confirming I have fuel to the injection pump. I do a compression test just to make sure. Engine had a 390 psi average. Cylinders 7 and 8 had an ever so slight film of oil on the glowplugs. I figured that was do to sitting for several months. So figured was well enough to try running again.
Intially she was running very rough with a miss on at least 2 cylinders and blowing a large amount of grey smoke. Though the filters weren't old I changed them anyway. Started her back up with fresh filters and the smoke was all gone and so was the miss. But she suddenly developed a vibration around 1500rpms. So with her at idle I start looking under the hood to see if something accessory wise is possibly coming apart. Since I need the engine speed higher then idle and I'm alone so I'm reving the engine by pushing on the throttle lever on the injection pump. I'm holding the throttle at about 1200rpms (judging by the sound) when she suddenly all at the same time. Starts blowing an insane amount of grey/black smoke, knocking like crazy and revs to the heavens. When it happened i was leaning over the engine, I simply ran. Ranaway for probably 30 seconds or so when she finally slowed to a stop. Was a graceful slow down not a sudden stop.
Once my heart rate slowed to a normal pace I noticed a moderately large puddle of oil under truck right below the air filter. First thing I checked was if the engine was locked up, nope still turns by hand. Decided to do a leak down test. Started with the drivers side since they're easy to get to. Cylinders 1 and 3 when tested showed a 40% leak rate and push that air into the oil pan. Made a nice gargling noise unless I took the oil fill cap off. Cylinders 5 and 7 didn't produce the noise but were around the same leak rate. This was done after turning the engine to make sure the valves were closed. I haven't even bothered with the other side yet. I'm thinking it ate the rings. I'm still not sure what caused it yet or how great the damage is.
Sorry for the long story, more of a rant then anything.
The truck had been having transmission issues for a while and between lack of either money or time it took me about a year and half to finally fix it. So I finally get the trans fix and go for a test drove around the block. Truck starts acting like it's out of fuel. So after confirming I have fuel to the injection pump. I do a compression test just to make sure. Engine had a 390 psi average. Cylinders 7 and 8 had an ever so slight film of oil on the glowplugs. I figured that was do to sitting for several months. So figured was well enough to try running again.
Intially she was running very rough with a miss on at least 2 cylinders and blowing a large amount of grey smoke. Though the filters weren't old I changed them anyway. Started her back up with fresh filters and the smoke was all gone and so was the miss. But she suddenly developed a vibration around 1500rpms. So with her at idle I start looking under the hood to see if something accessory wise is possibly coming apart. Since I need the engine speed higher then idle and I'm alone so I'm reving the engine by pushing on the throttle lever on the injection pump. I'm holding the throttle at about 1200rpms (judging by the sound) when she suddenly all at the same time. Starts blowing an insane amount of grey/black smoke, knocking like crazy and revs to the heavens. When it happened i was leaning over the engine, I simply ran. Ranaway for probably 30 seconds or so when she finally slowed to a stop. Was a graceful slow down not a sudden stop.
Once my heart rate slowed to a normal pace I noticed a moderately large puddle of oil under truck right below the air filter. First thing I checked was if the engine was locked up, nope still turns by hand. Decided to do a leak down test. Started with the drivers side since they're easy to get to. Cylinders 1 and 3 when tested showed a 40% leak rate and push that air into the oil pan. Made a nice gargling noise unless I took the oil fill cap off. Cylinders 5 and 7 didn't produce the noise but were around the same leak rate. This was done after turning the engine to make sure the valves were closed. I haven't even bothered with the other side yet. I'm thinking it ate the rings. I'm still not sure what caused it yet or how great the damage is.
Sorry for the long story, more of a rant then anything.
