steamtownwelde
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Story time.
Today was my son's 13th birthday and he wanted to go out and about for a 'guys day'
drove all over town, had a nice steak lunch bombed up the interstate for 30 or so miles, drove up and down some nasty access roads to go shooting (darn kid can just about out shoot his old man already!) All in all did just about every kind of driving a truck can do.
On the way down the mountain I started hearing a loud tick, didn't sound like a lifter. I'm no diesel expert and certainly no idi guru but I know enough to be dangerous. I labeled it an injector noise and decided it could wait until I dropped the boy off with she who shall not be named and I'd take a better listen. I dropped him off and stopped at a parts store, tick was there and noticeable. I bought a jug of lucas trans fix to help nurse along my ailing e4od until I Can get the new one in. Pulling out of the parts store lot the truck was dumping whitish/bluish smoke out the exhaust and missing. I pulled into another lot and she was shaking pretty good at idle, in gear or neutral had no effect,ok I didn't kill the trans somehow with the lucas ;p Truck never smoked before this unless I was really pushing it.
Between the tick earlier and the symptoms now I'm assuming it HAS to be a stuck injector. Injector line to cylinder #5 was noticeably hotter than the rest. It wasn't brand your skin hot but substantially hotter for sure. I pulled out of the lot blowing smoke and got on it hard and it would intermittently clear up then run crappy again. By the time I got home (30 miles ) it was back to running rough and smoking like crazy.
I bought the truck around 6000 miles ago and one of the first things I did was a new fuel filter full of atf. The truck has 235,000 miles and it looks like the injectors and pump were never touched. The truck is stock as can be and not a wrench mark in sight.
Will doing the ATF again and letting it sit overnight be a worthwhile investment or should I not toss a new motorcraft filter and just go for new injectors?
Since it looks like I'll be doing injectors I should probably do the return lines at the same time yes?
I love the truck, those 6000 miles I put on it were since april so I drive it ALOT. I'm not afraid to spend money as I plan on keeping the truck for as long as it'll still roll but one thing I hate is wasting time and money.
Soooooooo am I on the right path here guys?
Edit: I know I'm on borrowed time with the pump and am probably missing out on some mpg and performance with this one but it isn't in the budget right now unless it's the culprit and I don't think it is.
Also both of the tanks have broken showerheads, can't use below 1/4 tank in either of them. Perhaps my rough riding up and down the mountain stirred up some gunk from the bottom of the tanks.
Today was my son's 13th birthday and he wanted to go out and about for a 'guys day'
drove all over town, had a nice steak lunch bombed up the interstate for 30 or so miles, drove up and down some nasty access roads to go shooting (darn kid can just about out shoot his old man already!) All in all did just about every kind of driving a truck can do.
On the way down the mountain I started hearing a loud tick, didn't sound like a lifter. I'm no diesel expert and certainly no idi guru but I know enough to be dangerous. I labeled it an injector noise and decided it could wait until I dropped the boy off with she who shall not be named and I'd take a better listen. I dropped him off and stopped at a parts store, tick was there and noticeable. I bought a jug of lucas trans fix to help nurse along my ailing e4od until I Can get the new one in. Pulling out of the parts store lot the truck was dumping whitish/bluish smoke out the exhaust and missing. I pulled into another lot and she was shaking pretty good at idle, in gear or neutral had no effect,ok I didn't kill the trans somehow with the lucas ;p Truck never smoked before this unless I was really pushing it.
Between the tick earlier and the symptoms now I'm assuming it HAS to be a stuck injector. Injector line to cylinder #5 was noticeably hotter than the rest. It wasn't brand your skin hot but substantially hotter for sure. I pulled out of the lot blowing smoke and got on it hard and it would intermittently clear up then run crappy again. By the time I got home (30 miles ) it was back to running rough and smoking like crazy.
I bought the truck around 6000 miles ago and one of the first things I did was a new fuel filter full of atf. The truck has 235,000 miles and it looks like the injectors and pump were never touched. The truck is stock as can be and not a wrench mark in sight.
Will doing the ATF again and letting it sit overnight be a worthwhile investment or should I not toss a new motorcraft filter and just go for new injectors?
Since it looks like I'll be doing injectors I should probably do the return lines at the same time yes?
I love the truck, those 6000 miles I put on it were since april so I drive it ALOT. I'm not afraid to spend money as I plan on keeping the truck for as long as it'll still roll but one thing I hate is wasting time and money.
Soooooooo am I on the right path here guys?
Edit: I know I'm on borrowed time with the pump and am probably missing out on some mpg and performance with this one but it isn't in the budget right now unless it's the culprit and I don't think it is.
Also both of the tanks have broken showerheads, can't use below 1/4 tank in either of them. Perhaps my rough riding up and down the mountain stirred up some gunk from the bottom of the tanks.
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