Oil squirters

[92obsidi]

I'm rebuilding my 92' 7.3 idi, and putting a turbo on it. The oil squirters that are in it look like the press in type, not the bolt on. But I've been told that the only ones that had the press in type were the early 6.9L from like 84' and the rest have the bolt on type. The only replacements I can find are from SWAG performance and they're the bolt on type. I cannot find any of the press in ones. It's at the machine shop right now, so I'm trying to decide if I shluld just leave these in there and not mess with them, or if I should have him pull them and order some of the bolt on type and the machinist drill and tap holes for them. Does anyone have any info or suggestions?

 

[ihc1470]

Unless they are plugged why would you need to change them? The only reason I could think of is possibly they might had increased the flow with a factory turbo system. Look how many have had turbo's installed over the years and the oil coolers would have still be stock. With increased flow if they actually did that no doubt they would have had a higher capacity oil pump to take care of the bigger controled leak.

I do not see any mention of oil cooler jets being changed in the 7.3 turbo book that I have. They changed head gaskets, connecting rods, exhaust valves, pistons and ring design on the inside and different oil cooler, flywheel, vibration damper, fuel injection pump, nozzles and return line routing on the outside.

Again was any of that done with an add on system? The only thing I recall doing when I installed Banks systems years ago was tweaking the fuel screw inside the pump. You should be fine doing what you are doing unless you are going for crazy boost pressures. You might want to add studs to the heads in place of head bolts. Again I never did that and never had issues that I ever heard of.

 

[IDIBRONCO]

Yes. Only the early 6.9s had press in oil squirters. They have to be removed before the cylinders can be bored or honed. There was a special tool for removal and installation. There was also some type of jig (for lack of a better term) to help get the aligned correctly during installation.
No offense here, but are you 100% sure that you have a 7.3 and not a 6.9? I say that because people can, do, and have installed a running 6.9 in place of a bad 7.3.

 

[92obsidi]

Yes. Only the early 6.9s had press in oil squirters. They have to be removed before the cylinders can be bored or honed. There was a special tool for removal and installation. There was also some type of jig (for lack of a better term) to help get the aligned correctly during installation.
No offense here, but are you 100% sure that you have a 7.3 and not a 6.9? I say that because people can, do, and have installed a running 6.9 in place of a bad 7.3.

100% it has ½" head bolts instead of 7/16", it house the round cooling ports at the corners of the cylinder deck, ect.

 

[ROCK HARVEY]

Justin from R&D has an IDI rebuild series on YouTube, and in one of them he talks about the piston squirters. He said that you can remove the press-in ones with a vice grip slide hammer, and re-install them with red locktite.

Here’s the video, he talks about them around the 13 minute mark:

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[92obsidi]

Justin from R&D has an IDI rebuild series on YouTube, and in one of them he talks about the piston squirters. He said that you can remove the press-in ones with a vice grip slide hammer, and re-install them with red locktite.

Here’s the video, he talks about them around the 13 minute mark:

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Thank you!! That's actually who I'm going to source the majority of my parts from for the rebuild.

 

[92obsidi]

Justin from R&D has an IDI rebuild series on YouTube, and in one of them he talks about the piston squirters. He said that you can remove the press-in ones with a vice grip slide hammer, and re-install them with red locktite.

Here’s the video, he talks about them around the 13 minute mark:

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Hey buddy thanks for the suggestions. After doing much more extensive research I found out that it was 100% a 83' 6.9L. All you guys were correct. It was the only year that they did the press in oil squirters. I was going off what I had been told from the guy who sold it to me, plus the fact that it's a 92' F450. Dumb me for taking people at their word lol.
So I called the machine shop and told them to just set the 6.9 aside that I was going to to find an actual 7.3L. Somehow I was able to luck up and find a guy about 2½ hours from the house that had a 93' block out of a truck that had a turbo, with the heads, crank, cam, and pretty much everything else. Plus he had a 94' 7.3 block that was also turbocharged that was used in an industrial application. Plus a bunch of miscellaneous stuff as well. It was an entire pallet full. He let me get it for $20. He said they were just sitting around his shop collecting dust just in the way, and he'd much rather actually see them be used.
REALLY cool guy, when he found out hard far I had driven to come get them he tried giving me back my $20 to put in gas lol.
I took it to the machine shop the next day. He's going to bore it out for me, but the cam bearings in, new freeze plugs, and maybe a couple other things.
Only problem I'm having is finding someone to do the head work. No one in my area does them. Does anyone have any recommendations? Even if I have to ship them to them.

 

[IDIBRONCO]

He let me get it for $20.

REALLY cool guy, when he found out hard far I had driven to come get them he tried giving me back my $20 to put in gas lol.

You STOLE that stuff!

Dumb me for taking people at their word lol.

Don't be too h a r d o n yourself. I'm constantly amazed at how many people have no clue as to what they actually have. They sure try awfully hard to sound smart when they're wanting to sell it too.

 

[Black dawg]

So, did it have 1/2 inch head bolts?