Warwagon
Registered User
Hi men,
Hope all is well with you all. I haven't been active on the board in quite some time, been busy as a one handed wall paper hanger ... long story, nobody wants to hear it anyway, so I'll get on with it.
I finally got a chance to get some work done on our van. She's been laid up all winter long with a oil in the water/water in the oil problem. Not much H2O contamination in the oil, luckily. Only a tablespoon or so at most. I had just changed the oil , ran it less than 200 miles and noted a bit of clotting on the dipstick. Oil was still black, but no frothing due to H2O... so...
I pulled the cooler figuring it was O-rings again. But before I broke it down, I tested it. Hell's fire, it held right up to 60psi for an hour. The job that was done at Darren Tosh's was holding up just fine - Thanks men. With new gaskets we put it back in. Let's just say that Kathryn now has an appreciation for what Nick and I went through on a hot summer's night a few years back in Darren's garage.
I then thought of the H2O pump as a leakage source. You know, around the top and bottom 2 bolts that go into the timing cover. Pulled the top two, and son-of-a-gun, a mixture of coolant and oil on the shanks of those bolts and danged little RTV! I never pulled the water pump during the rebuild, so I figured I'd let it develop. Develop it did. So we pulled the water pump, installed a new one, and gooped the snot out of the bolts that require it prior to installation. Filled her up with water in preparation to flushing the system.
Should be good to go, right? ... NOT with my luck.
As soon as we fired her up I backed it out of the shed to begin the flush. She's not leaking water, but D2 is pouring off of the engine near the bellhousing. Shut her down, went to the house and watched Die Hard - something had to get vicariously killed at his point, or I was gonna riddle that rig with holes myself.
After cooling off for 2 days, I went out and began the pageant of pulling the dogbox, turned on the key to let the red pump do it's thing and to my amazement, there were several return lines seeping fuel. Not at their connections, mind you, but in the middle. It was as though the fuel had made them permeable, hundreds of tiny pin holes under the woven sheath. Additionally, the rubber return line that runs off of the back of the engine and attaches to the hard line back to the tanks was piddling too.
The rest of the hosing on this rig isn't leaking at this point, nor is the I/P. Any bookies on the board wanna make mark on how long it takes for them to join in on the owner persecution. Right now, with the way things go around here, I'll put up my $.25 at 100-to-1, AGAINST...me.
When I rebuilt this engine 6 years ago, I put all new hoses on it. Return line kit from DIS, and the fuel lines were from NAPA - the "diesel rated" stuff. Has the fuel chemistry changed that much from the LSD days so as to allow the "new and improved?" fuel to eat the rubber? I simply HATE having to do jobs multiple times, as my life does not have the time for it! Who has hosing and a return line kit out there that uses rubber that this "NEW" fuel will not DESTROY? I'm willing to replace them, again, but DON'T want to do it a THIRD time in the near future, as this is a ROYAL PITA in a van with a turbo!
Any suggestions would definitely be appreciated at this point, I've about had it. This has got to end.
Mark
Hope all is well with you all. I haven't been active on the board in quite some time, been busy as a one handed wall paper hanger ... long story, nobody wants to hear it anyway, so I'll get on with it.
I finally got a chance to get some work done on our van. She's been laid up all winter long with a oil in the water/water in the oil problem. Not much H2O contamination in the oil, luckily. Only a tablespoon or so at most. I had just changed the oil , ran it less than 200 miles and noted a bit of clotting on the dipstick. Oil was still black, but no frothing due to H2O... so...
I pulled the cooler figuring it was O-rings again. But before I broke it down, I tested it. Hell's fire, it held right up to 60psi for an hour. The job that was done at Darren Tosh's was holding up just fine - Thanks men. With new gaskets we put it back in. Let's just say that Kathryn now has an appreciation for what Nick and I went through on a hot summer's night a few years back in Darren's garage.
I then thought of the H2O pump as a leakage source. You know, around the top and bottom 2 bolts that go into the timing cover. Pulled the top two, and son-of-a-gun, a mixture of coolant and oil on the shanks of those bolts and danged little RTV! I never pulled the water pump during the rebuild, so I figured I'd let it develop. Develop it did. So we pulled the water pump, installed a new one, and gooped the snot out of the bolts that require it prior to installation. Filled her up with water in preparation to flushing the system.
Should be good to go, right? ... NOT with my luck.
As soon as we fired her up I backed it out of the shed to begin the flush. She's not leaking water, but D2 is pouring off of the engine near the bellhousing. Shut her down, went to the house and watched Die Hard - something had to get vicariously killed at his point, or I was gonna riddle that rig with holes myself.
After cooling off for 2 days, I went out and began the pageant of pulling the dogbox, turned on the key to let the red pump do it's thing and to my amazement, there were several return lines seeping fuel. Not at their connections, mind you, but in the middle. It was as though the fuel had made them permeable, hundreds of tiny pin holes under the woven sheath. Additionally, the rubber return line that runs off of the back of the engine and attaches to the hard line back to the tanks was piddling too.
The rest of the hosing on this rig isn't leaking at this point, nor is the I/P. Any bookies on the board wanna make mark on how long it takes for them to join in on the owner persecution. Right now, with the way things go around here, I'll put up my $.25 at 100-to-1, AGAINST...me.
When I rebuilt this engine 6 years ago, I put all new hoses on it. Return line kit from DIS, and the fuel lines were from NAPA - the "diesel rated" stuff. Has the fuel chemistry changed that much from the LSD days so as to allow the "new and improved?" fuel to eat the rubber? I simply HATE having to do jobs multiple times, as my life does not have the time for it! Who has hosing and a return line kit out there that uses rubber that this "NEW" fuel will not DESTROY? I'm willing to replace them, again, but DON'T want to do it a THIRD time in the near future, as this is a ROYAL PITA in a van with a turbo!
Any suggestions would definitely be appreciated at this point, I've about had it. This has got to end.
Mark