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  1. SkylabTech86IDI

    2nd blown oil filter gasket and coolant mixing with oil? Help with isolating the causes?

  2. SkylabTech86IDI

    2nd blown oil filter gasket and coolant mixing with oil? Help with isolating the causes?

    Sorry, a bit confused here. The gaskets provided in the photo match up with the header pattern for the IDI’s, as seen here: the description in the listing is a all over the place though. it says it’s for a “powerstroke” yet lists IDI engine years 1986-1994.
  3. SkylabTech86IDI

    2nd blown oil filter gasket and coolant mixing with oil? Help with isolating the causes?

    Going to try one of these amazon oil coolers for $89...
  4. SkylabTech86IDI

    2nd blown oil filter gasket and coolant mixing with oil? Help with isolating the causes?

    I do appear to be having contamination in the coolant. Check this out
  5. SkylabTech86IDI

    2nd blown oil filter gasket and coolant mixing with oil? Help with isolating the causes?

    Confident. I followed this guide https://www.nickpisca.com/diesel/engine/6-9-and-7-3-idi-oil-cooler-repair/ and I felt the headers suck into place without fuss when I used this 12 ton press. Putting both of the oil cooler headers on took about 15 minutes with the press.
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    2nd blown oil filter gasket and coolant mixing with oil? Help with isolating the causes?

    I’ll be checking the rest of responses here shortly, thanks for everyone’s input and I’ll keep you posted
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    2nd blown oil filter gasket and coolant mixing with oil? Help with isolating the causes?

    As far as the stuck oil pressure regulator goes, does anyone know if there are bypass oil filters for these motors?
  8. SkylabTech86IDI

    2nd blown oil filter gasket and coolant mixing with oil? Help with isolating the causes?

    Drained and checked the oil last night with about 5 minutes of run time and this was the result. It could be the o rings in the oil cooler? It could be the gaskets mount up to the block? It could be that the oil cooler is corroded on the inside and allowing contamination there? An oil cooler...
  9. SkylabTech86IDI

    2nd blown oil filter gasket and coolant mixing with oil? Help with isolating the causes?

    On the bright side, the glow plug bypass solution works great, so that’s a huge to-do item that’s been crossed off of my list
  10. SkylabTech86IDI

    2nd blown oil filter gasket and coolant mixing with oil? Help with isolating the causes?

    I put 7+qt’s of mixed weight (but mostly new/new) oil into the motor. I saw that the advice given so far was that it is unlikely to be cavitation and also unlikely to be head gasket. I’m guessing that it is unlikely to be cavitation because of how easy the 7.3idi still Cranks. Further, I’m...
  11. SkylabTech86IDI

    2nd blown oil filter gasket and coolant mixing with oil? Help with isolating the causes?

    Update: Oil cooler was rebuilt and reinstalled but the truck has mostly been sitting since the reinstall. The new cowl seal has been installed. today I was working on getting the glowplugs working, and the truck surprised me with more milky oil and another blown oil filter gasket. Does...
  12. SkylabTech86IDI

    New R&D injectors

    I respect the commitment to quality, especially when demand for work is high. There’s only but so many hours in a day for one person to tackle it all. Hard to give people an exact date of a product’s availability under those constraints. From my experience people tend to time out their builds...
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    Block heater installation - block heater won’t seat

    Stubborn they can be, indeed. So an update: I put 3-ish more miles of easy driving on the truck after I installed the block heater replacement. In that link is a 2 minute example of a drive. After vetting the running condition, I was going to use the truck to pick up furniture and some engine...
  14. SkylabTech86IDI

    New R&D injectors

    Ouch, that would push me into looking at other options
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    New R&D injectors

    Just As an idea, if you have a smartphone then you can always use a GPS speedo/mileage outputs to help validate whatever the mechanical speedo/odometer is telling you. Good luck and keep us posted. I’m also interested in installing some of Justin’s injectors.
  16. SkylabTech86IDI

    Block heater installation - block heater won’t seat

    Got it, thank you Here’s a 8 second video of the truck after the block heater install and oil cooler rebuild
  17. SkylabTech86IDI

    Block heater installation - block heater won’t seat

    I see there are instructions to Point element at 11 o'clock position but in the picture that I sent, that heating element is close to in the 11 o clock position. I’m going to the store to grab new hardware and try again tomorrow
  18. SkylabTech86IDI

    Block heater installation - block heater won’t seat

    hi all, I’m installing a new block heater that was tested to work to replace the non-working block heater element. I’m having a problem getting the block heater plug to seat in the cavity. It’s like the O-ring doesn’t want to seat, and only up to 50% of the plug seems to be seated at a time...
  19. SkylabTech86IDI

    Who's smarter?

    I like the chatter and clatter in my truck, but if the difference between my wife riding with me in it or not was insulation, you’d best believe I’d have quality insulation on order in an instant. I love my truck and I love my gal, and spending money to be able to spend time with them both at...
  20. SkylabTech86IDI

    Rallies, Get-togethers, meets etc........

    I’m probably posting this in the wrong place but are there any meet ups for those of us in or around VA? Didn’t see anything through a search and I know covid probably and prices have probably suppressed meet up activity.
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    Who's smarter?

    That’s very exciting. We have an 1981 Cougar XR7 that we just gifted over to one of the kids in the family. Definitely has been one of my favorite cars to drive. it drives like a boat with a Jasper 5.0 in it!
  22. SkylabTech86IDI

    2nd blown oil filter gasket and coolant mixing with oil? Help with isolating the causes?

    I’m assuming that this part here is the oil pressure regulator? And that the chisel needs to go in here to unstick it? How do I know if the pressure regulator is in the right position?
  23. SkylabTech86IDI

    Turbo setup ideas/

    I’ve been looking at this exact kit starting 3 days ago. It’s pricey, but I think the headache that you save yourself by buying a complete kit is worth it. I Think of it as a convenience fee - the less time that my truck is down the better. I don’t want to forget an important kit component...
  24. SkylabTech86IDI

    Thinning vs heating before centrifuging?

    This diesel fuel shortage has me wondering more about these trucks that run wmo and restaurants kitchen grease/sludge. …so How do you determine the right ratio of fuels to mix, anyways? Do you start with the least about of fuel mix and slowly increasing the mix until driveability seems to...
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    Thinning vs heating before centrifuging?

    This comment has me now wondering about what would theoretically be waste motor oil’s octane/cetane rating? What’s happens to the total Octane value of the combusted fuel mix say if you mix the high octane gas with the wmo, do you lower the total octane rating of the combusted fuel to say for...

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