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Here are some videos...Not sure if block or heads are gone.....

Head gasket at least....maybe a cracked head in the valve bridge.

Lesser chance of it being a block.

The filler tube looks like plain ol' blowby. A fair bit of it, but still blowby.

Exploratory surgery is the next step says I.......
 
ok...My other 6.5 did not smoke like that and it dont smell like antifreeze at all. plus there is antifreeze at bellhousing but the rad hose swells up from what I can tell. It does have 335,000 on it....
 
X2 on the heavy blowby. Since that means rings, then it's for sure gonna need head work/rebuild and a trip the the magnetic particle inspection (Magnaflux) booth is in order. That'll tell you what you need to know. In this day and age, a replacement motor is probably cheaper seeing as you are up that high in miles.
 
Well I found a engine with 158,000 on it and it dont run and no turbo...(they sold the turbo) because of fuel issue they said....for 450.00

I am thinking of just dropping in a engine so this thing can be moved....I have to move this week....what to do what to do...

thanks guys for the help so far.
 
The percolating in the coolant reservoir is a dead give away that you have at least popped a head gasket.

Whitish "smoke" from the exhaust indicates "coolant steam" and that combined with the percolating coolant reservoir is consistent with a blown head gasket between the combustion chamber and a coolant passage.

Second choice would be a cracked head.

The blow by appears to be just that.

If you pop a head gasket on it (assuming thats the issue), you may get another 50,000-60,000 or you may get another 50-500. No way of knowing.

But it's closer to the end than the beginning for sure....
 
Interesting that everyone is dismissing the smoke out of the filler tube as just blow by. I'll take that as a positive as I have virtually none out of the '99 and my son's '95 has some smoke that spills over the lip of the fill tube like dry ice. Nowhere near what I saw in these videos.
 
X2 on what has already been said.

That exhaust and coolant tank is exactly what mine did/looked like when I blew my headgasket a month ago. Mine had 252,000 on it and the heads were cracked between all the valves. Just FYI for what you will probably run into with yours.

The oil fill puffing looks like blow by to me, not good, but probably not directly related to the head gasket. In other words, fixing the blown head gasket most likely won't slow down or stop the puffing from the oil fill. That is caused by worn out rings, among other things.

The 450.00 engine might be your quickest/cheapest way to get it back on the road again soon.
 
Well I found a engine with 158,000 on it and
it dont run and no turbo...(they sold the turbo) because of fuel issue "they said" (< key words)....for 450.00

I am thinking of just dropping in a engine so this thing can be moved....I have to move this week....what to do what to do...

thanks guys for the help so far.


It maybe another blow by steam engine like you already have ..... I learned sometime ago, not to buy an engine that you can't see or hear run (if you are planning on dropping it in and running it), I've been burnt a few times.... Just sayin'.

Mike
 
I know what you mean. I ask and they checked it out...it has a fuel issue and then they sold the turbo off it....I am going to look at it tom...
 


It maybe another blow by steam engine like you already have ..... I learned sometime ago, not to buy an engine that you can't see or hear run (if you are planning on dropping it in and running it), I've been burnt a few times.... Just sayin'.

Mike


The blowby is NOT steady. Standard blowby is a steady stream. You have a couple puffs that are stronger than others. This indicates a cracked piston or severe ring damage on one or more cylinders, but not all.

I replaced my engine with a used 30K mile Military surplus engine, 6.2 to replace a 6.5, the same time another member here did. My engine was test run before shipping and had a 30 or so day warranty. Mine ran, the other member had a cracked cylinder leaking coolant. He had to pull the engine again.

I wouldn't buy a used 6.5 without seeing it run - most have been removed from service for severe failures including fuel system. The fuel system can grenade the engine on it's way out like the stuck injector did to my avatar. You may get lucky or you may get $75.00 worth of scrap metal.
 
I understand...thanks for the heads up. I understand wanting to make sure its ok before running. Guess we will see what happens...
 
Well I found one that I can check out and hear run. They want 1200 but I have to drive 1 hour to check it out....it has 141 on it
 
Well I found a engine with 158,000 on it and it dont run and no turbo...(they sold the turbo) because of fuel issue they said....for 450.00

I am thinking of just dropping in a engine so this thing can be moved....I have to move this week....what to do what to do...

thanks guys for the help so far.

I'd have to know more about the engine. How long has ie been sitting? Has it been buttoned up? To many people leave engines without all of the openings sealed.

A friend had mouse crawl up the exhaust and do severe damage to his heads. If an engine has been sitting for any length of time it needs to be buttoned up completely or anything is a crap shoot. Even if you know it was a good running engine and it was stored inside in the corner of your shop.
 
I'd have to know more about the engine. How long has ie been sitting? Has it been buttoned up? To many people leave engines without all of the openings sealed.

A friend had mouse crawl up the exhaust and do severe damage to his heads. If an engine has been sitting for any length of time it needs to be buttoned up completely or anything is a crap shoot. Even if you know it was a good running engine and it was stored inside in the corner of your shop.

The truck sat for awhile and it starts runs and drives. I heard it run smoked alittle but cleared up. it has 335,000 on it and he said there was a heating issue. Well you can see there is more of a heating issue....
 
The truck sat for awhile and it starts runs and drives. I heard it run smoked alittle but cleared up. it has 335,000 on it and he said there was a heating issue. Well you can see there is more of a heating issue....

I wouldn't be paying 1200 for an engine that has 335,000 miles on it already.

Now doubt buddy selling it will say "that's nothing for a diesel".

Not true with a 6.X

The 6.X engines are pretty close to the end of their life at that point.

It's got maybe 50,000 to 70,000 left in it if it's still in good shape.

I wouldn't pay much more than 600 no matter what it runs like.

Maybe 800 if it was a good runner with minimal blow by.....
 
The truck sat for awhile and it starts runs and drives. I heard it run smoked alittle but cleared up. it has 335,000 on it and he said there was a heating issue. Well you can see there is more of a heating issue....

I was referring to the engine with 158,000 miles on it in my post. I would only go scrap price for the 335,000 mile engine. And that might be to much by the time you figure the trouble of messing with it.
 
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