International Diesel in NY quesiton

[Turbine Doc]

I didn't realize it happened over time so yeah, I agree its not a squirter issue but unless they reused the pump, I'd be leaning towards a bearing issue.

I'm concerned about them as well but hoping it's a pump issue, Wrecker & I recomended he crank it up, warm it up & pull an oil sample, if it's bearings, there will be metal in the oil, possibly we will be going by his place this weekend pulling pan & main/rod bearing caps and know for sure.

 

[turbovanman]

Risk of squirters is a moot point, "problem" is there until block is changed out to a non drilled block, and I'm not really sure squirters are a definative cause of failures, fail mode on the 6.5 has not been proven to be caused on any one design flaw.

My personal experience leads me to believe it is a temperature related issue and if ignored those with squirters may fail in the region where the squirter was drilled, but the fact that one has squirters is not a certainty that it is predisposed to failure. Many 6.2s & 6.5s have had exact failure mechanism/location as the "bad squirter" blocked engines have had with non squirter drilled webbing

Myself I would not plug them, I'm not a big proponent on radical design changes without engineering data to back it up, if there are holes for squirters in the block, my major concern is "hot spot" at location that no longer has complete metal in it from drilling for squirters possibly needing flow thru the casting to cool the webbing as well as cooling piston skirts which could compromise the block even further than the squirters supposedly cause.

The squirters are there for one reason, to cool the piston. Now many an engine doesn't run these including older 6.5's and 6.2's, so did any have piston failures when running high boost? I have yet to see that so to me, if there is an issue with them, plugging them off will be the least of his concerns. My 2 cents.

 

[Brooklyn Tow]

possibly we will be going by his place this weekend pulling pan & main/rod bearing caps and know for sure.

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[DEERE3594]

You gotta love this forum.....:thumbsup: :grouphug: :smile5:

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[btfarm]

They are coming by, and I agree, there are atleast a half a dozen guys they have gone WAY out of there way for me. This site and group of people is AMAZING! :bow:

Yup!
Hope to see this thread turn out real positive, real soon!