ConstantVigilance
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Your right. No way to know for certain. I needed to swap on the 7.3 liter housing because I needed the breather port for my turbo set up.So in all likely hood and with no way to say for 100% certain.....by removing ip gear cover and teying to line up the marks u could possibly have been out a tooth one way or the other...
This is the very reason we say never remove ip gear cover.
Well now is time to line it up seal it up amd hope for best after heads come off.
Good luck.
I'm going to try and purchase this timing Gadget, and at least time the motor correctly. I had an oil leak anyway at the front of the motor, so this wasn't a complete waste of time taking it apart.
I really want to avoid removing these heads of course. And if the timing is not what's causing this problem, at least I have some good timing gear.
I was talking to a diesel mechanic today, a guy from out of town who is looking at buying some parts from me, and he says in his 35 years he never heard of something like this. He turned me on to the idea of checking part numbers for pre cups.
Basically, he's wondering if when they assemble this engine they used pre cups that might have a smaller orifice leading into the compression chamber. He thinks maybe the fuel is poolling inside of the pre cup.
He agrees that it sounds like I'm getting too much fuel. But says it just doesn't seem possible to burn them up without these things being energized. He floated the idea that there was some kind of back-feed of power that was turning these plugs on even when they're not plugged in. These things are getting really hot, that's obvious.
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