Jesus Freak
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.....wait a minute.....this isn't a tragedy! It was the opportunity you were waiting on! You sir are slick.Old Goat, The engine has been running a bit longer than that. The 6.9 cracked the main web at the end of July 2021. It took me until May of 2022 to get it rebuilt and back in the truck. About 20,000 miles on it since then. Time flies when you are having fun.
JF, I did retorque, and it may yet prove to be a head gasket. We will see.
Engine is coming out tonight. I will pull the heads and see what is going on. Junkyard 7.3 block bored 0.020 over, so wouldn't surprise me at all to find a pin hole or crack in the #8 wall. I placed an order with CDD for a 90 cc pump and gasket kit earlier this morning. The old pump just couldn't keep up with the turbo and beefed up cam, so I might as well use this opportunity to improve it a bit more. I am also going to throw the heads up on the mill, drill out the coolant holes, and stuff some core plugs in there, replace the Mahle head bolts with the ARP studs I got 9 months after engine was back on the road, and do a few other little things while I have it out.