fired off much better this morning, still not the way it should tho. I added t FI clamps on a suspect wet return line. I will investigate other lines soon. At least it started hitting almost right away.
I also installed an air compressor oil mist seperator, 3/4 NPT port son it, flows 1100L/min at 100 psi, says min operating pressure is 0.1 PSI. Ok so i go to experiment with it. Idle it for 5 mins, seems ok.
driv eht e25 miles to work, halfwya thru i smell oil and it seems hazy behind me..cant confirm as its raining. Stop at a light...looots of blue smoke from behind me. oh hsit **** ****, something with the separator I am sure.
Make it to work. Yup, not a drop in the separator, oil alll over the dipstick to block area, half the engine is soaked, spent an hour clenaing the work parking lot, then drove ot wash it-after deleting the separator of coarse. I couldnt tell if the smoke was from the muffler or just the fan blowing it all out under the truck. I see oil up near the top too by the turbo area. I am hoping, praying to god i dindt blow my turbo seals out, and oil is getting pushed out into the intake or exhaust. I added 1/2 gallon of oil to the pan (was halfwya on the dipstick 2 days ago).
Oil pressure appeared normal, so i HOPE seals are ok, boost is ok. Just need to monitor my oil level now and hope its not falling too fast. Guy at work is building me a nice stainless catch can, perforated tube running down the center, drain on the bottom. I would LOVE to plumb this back into my oil pan so i can drain it every so often right in, but I am not putting a hole and welding on it with it being on the truck. Last thing I need are metal shavings in there. Gotta keep the oil out of the turbo!
in other news, I hav ebeen touching 15 psi at around 850F max pyro temp, still hazing some black out the pipe. So I unhooked my wastegate, boost comes on quicker a bit, and Iit will climb from 15 to 20 psi flooring it in 4th getting onto the freeway, i think there is little to no smoke, and I have yet to pass 900F on pyro.
pretty cool feeling the charge piping, even at idle, the one right from turbo is warm to the touch, the one after the cooler is cold-ambient or just above temp.
got my GPS in this morning so I finally have a speedo, but i really need a tach. Have no idea what Im crusing at. Calcs put me around 1850ish cruising at 70 mph.
Oh also installed a 4" diamond eye louvered muffler. Definitly took 95% of the raspy farting sound out, turbo is just as loud. I will try adding an extension pipe further away from the cab to see if it helps with drone a thighway speed. The drone was ther ewith straight pipe too, just couldnt hear it as much due to the farting sound out the pipe lol.
overall, impressed iwth the truck. it sounds, looks and feels like it has some hairs ballz