C_Luft
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Hey everyone, I'm new to the site and a member at Fourdoorbronco.com,
I got a couple questions
I recently purchased a 94 crew cab 4x4 f350 srw with 7.3 idi factory turbo for 2700
When I first brought it home on the way back from Seattle to Portland it used a tank and half of diesel, 2 gallons of oil leaking and burning
It had a strong scent of diesel in the oil , so changed the oil and filter immediately and changed the oil cooler o-rings and gaskets wasn't that hard(changed it mostly to isolate the oil leaks), along with injectors, mechanical fuel pump, return lines and tees and valve cover gaskets, I also cleaned the cdr
Just today I took it for a spin mostly to get registration and on the way there was blue smoke and white smoke (probably glow plugs) and driving it around town it wouldn't stop smoking but when I got on the hwy and pushed her a little to clean her out the smoke went away from what I could see, and got the turbo to spool I got the usual black smoke and after that at 45-70 mph no smoke perfect running ran 10x better than my mother's 95 crew cab power stroke, but as soon as I get off the hwy and coming to a stop I hear a **** like a semi truck's air brakes and then the engine acts like a misfire or something like that along with blue smoke of course and it does this while idling after coming to a stop, after that happened I tried to head back home when it blew out the passenger side valve cover (which I just replaced), I limped her home and was deciding whether to hopefully repair or just rebuild her.
Now your probably wondering what was the history on the truck, well after looking through the previous owners paper work, I found a receipt to a whidbey island ford dealer and they did an oil change and they put 15 qts of oil and a power stroke oil filter, at 187000 miles ,and now at 227000 miles now when I changed the oil when I first got home it still had the dealers oil filter on it and it was very hard to get off (had to stab a screw driver in it to get it move), and the oil that came out was nastiest stuff on planet earth, my hands were stained for days
I will also add that when I take the oil cap off I do a single repeating **** of smoke
Any help is greatly appreciated
And suggestions on where to get rebuild kits?
I got a couple questions
I recently purchased a 94 crew cab 4x4 f350 srw with 7.3 idi factory turbo for 2700
When I first brought it home on the way back from Seattle to Portland it used a tank and half of diesel, 2 gallons of oil leaking and burning
It had a strong scent of diesel in the oil , so changed the oil and filter immediately and changed the oil cooler o-rings and gaskets wasn't that hard(changed it mostly to isolate the oil leaks), along with injectors, mechanical fuel pump, return lines and tees and valve cover gaskets, I also cleaned the cdr
Just today I took it for a spin mostly to get registration and on the way there was blue smoke and white smoke (probably glow plugs) and driving it around town it wouldn't stop smoking but when I got on the hwy and pushed her a little to clean her out the smoke went away from what I could see, and got the turbo to spool I got the usual black smoke and after that at 45-70 mph no smoke perfect running ran 10x better than my mother's 95 crew cab power stroke, but as soon as I get off the hwy and coming to a stop I hear a **** like a semi truck's air brakes and then the engine acts like a misfire or something like that along with blue smoke of course and it does this while idling after coming to a stop, after that happened I tried to head back home when it blew out the passenger side valve cover (which I just replaced), I limped her home and was deciding whether to hopefully repair or just rebuild her.
Now your probably wondering what was the history on the truck, well after looking through the previous owners paper work, I found a receipt to a whidbey island ford dealer and they did an oil change and they put 15 qts of oil and a power stroke oil filter, at 187000 miles ,and now at 227000 miles now when I changed the oil when I first got home it still had the dealers oil filter on it and it was very hard to get off (had to stab a screw driver in it to get it move), and the oil that came out was nastiest stuff on planet earth, my hands were stained for days
I will also add that when I take the oil cap off I do a single repeating **** of smoke
Any help is greatly appreciated
And suggestions on where to get rebuild kits?