'94 IDIT runs rough, low power, nearly overheating after Moose IP

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It shouldn't have anything to do with it. Delo is a good oil. It could be neglect/abuse by a previous owner and it's just starting to rear it's ugly head now.
 

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I would send out the engine oil to blackstone and see what they find, for the fuel system issues would you happen to ever hear a hiss when you pull off the fuel caps? These fuel tanks dont vent well, and added pressure in the return lines will really screw with these pumps, but its not going to damage a head and rotor.


Could it be the oil cooler wes ?
Or thermostat sticking ? What about the fan itself ?
 

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The only way you're going to get bearing metal that's magnetic is if it spins a bearing in the rod or in the block. You could have a cam going flat too. although it's extremely unlikely.
To me the black smoke says fuel system that is not working correctly that's just not right.
 

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Thats not accurate, idit rod and main bearings are magnetic, and just minor wear will produce magnetic material. Spun bearings don’t happen often in these engines, I’ve now seen it only twice and both in idit engines, but out of many many IDIs that have come through my shop. It would be worthwhile to cut open the oil filter while you’re diagnosing things.
 

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I don't think the aluminum surface of the bearing is magnetic. Or the copper underlayment.
I'll get back to you on the layers.
Usually fuzz on the drain plug is gear train wear.
 
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Last 7.3 I killed, had 240-250 numbers in the middle 4 cyls, 320-375 on the outside 4. Lots of metal fuzz on drain plug and in filter. Bearings were perfect. Cyl walls not so much. Oval cyls don’t work well.
 

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It’s an aluminum alloy that has some carbon, I scraped off some material (above the copper layer) and everything was magnetic, not super magnetic but it will stick to a magnet.
 

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Last 7.3 I killed, had 240-250 numbers in the middle 4 cyls, 320-375 on the outside 4. Lots of metal fuzz on drain plug and in filter. Bearings were perfect. Cyl walls not so much. Oval cyls don’t work well.
That’s an odd failure, typically it’s the back two that are the lowest and it gets better further forward. Interesting thing about cylinder and piston wear, is even if you shatter a piston like I did, the oil control ring keeps all the metal out of the pan, on the shop trucks idit that got hurt from a nitrous backfire it broke out the top two steel ring lands, both compression rings and big chunks of the piston. All that stayed out of the pan until I pulled the heads and popped the piston out, all the pieces that had stuck between the lip of the cylinder and the bottom ring went everywhere, engine ran like that for months with the rear pistons broken and didn’t have anything on the drain plug. #7 and #8 both had zero compression.
 

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I'll just throw this out there, but besides the previously mentioned valve train concerns, what about the condition of the camshaft?
 

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These engines use roller lifters so, aside from a lifter failure, there just isn't much that goes wrong with the cams. I suppose that lack of oil could damage the bearing surfaces.
 
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