Truck almost burned.....
Mar 19, 2007 | 11:23 AM
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I haven't had a chance to work on it yet. I'm going to have to have it towed back to my house...didn't have a chance on Sunday, and I have class tonight after work so it will probably be tomorrow before I get it home. I did start it up for a sec and it ran ok, but that's when I found out that the turbo oil feed line was burned through. It's steel braided so I couldn't see it, but with the motor running oil was seeping out between the braids. Shouldn't take much to fix it, I think cleaning the extinguisher out of the valve cover will be the most time consuming part.
Anyway - the moral of this story is that an extinguisher is worth every penny! Even if you never need to use it on your own car/truck, you may have an opportunity to save someone else's at some point.
SS_bnoon_SS - good point. I know that insurance doesn't know about anything that's done to my truck. Sounds like it's about time to get an appraisal on additional coverage.
Anyway - the moral of this story is that an extinguisher is worth every penny! Even if you never need to use it on your own car/truck, you may have an opportunity to save someone else's at some point.
SS_bnoon_SS - good point. I know that insurance doesn't know about anything that's done to my truck. Sounds like it's about time to get an appraisal on additional coverage.
Mar 19, 2007 | 11:39 AM
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WOW!!! I'm glad to hear you got it in time. That could've been a lot worse. It's good that you reacted so quikily too, a lot of people just freeze in situations like that. Way to be!
The next step after fixing it is to find out what exactly the culpret was. It takes quite a bit of heat to ignite oil, so I'm guessing it puked on the exhaust, or turbine housing or something. The valve covers don't get hot enough to ignited oil...trust me I know.
The next step after fixing it is to find out what exactly the culpret was. It takes quite a bit of heat to ignite oil, so I'm guessing it puked on the exhaust, or turbine housing or something. The valve covers don't get hot enough to ignited oil...trust me I know.
Mar 19, 2007 | 11:48 AM
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Originally Posted by vanillagorilla
WOW!!! I'm glad to hear you got it in time. That could've been a lot worse. It's good that you reacted so quikily too, a lot of people just freeze in situations like that. Way to be!
The next step after fixing it is to find out what exactly the culpret was. It takes quite a bit of heat to ignite oil, so I'm guessing it puked on the exhaust, or turbine housing or something. The valve covers don't get hot enough to ignited oil...trust me I know.
The next step after fixing it is to find out what exactly the culpret was. It takes quite a bit of heat to ignite oil, so I'm guessing it puked on the exhaust, or turbine housing or something. The valve covers don't get hot enough to ignited oil...trust me I know.
I wonder if the breather cap was saturated enough that it dripped oil onto the manifold?
Mar 19, 2007 | 06:35 PM
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You're one lucky guy to catch that. Still, sorry that it happened.
I don't know enough to know if this is relavant, but a lot of diesel guys re-route their pcv to keep oil out of the intake manifold. From what I have read, most of them route a tube from the valve cover down the firewall and actually put a breather down on the frame.
http://dieselplace.com/forum/showthread.php?t=66728
I'm sure there's other ways to do it too. I'm about useless when it come to the forced induction stuff.
I don't know enough to know if this is relavant, but a lot of diesel guys re-route their pcv to keep oil out of the intake manifold. From what I have read, most of them route a tube from the valve cover down the firewall and actually put a breather down on the frame.
http://dieselplace.com/forum/showthread.php?t=66728
I'm sure there's other ways to do it too. I'm about useless when it come to the forced induction stuff.
Mar 19, 2007 | 06:38 PM
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I've eliminated the PCV system as the source of my oil burning problem, so the PCV system is going back on anyway. Funny thing is that I was planning on putting it back on that night before this happened but never got around to it. Guess I should have made some time!
Mar 19, 2007 | 10:00 PM
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****!!!
Well the good thing about the pcv system is it will pull air through the breather at idle and cruise and help keep the oil saturation level down. Just make sure you have a check valve on it. I had the thin, basically sticky backed thick alum foil, exhaust wrap on all my rubber and plastic componenets under the hood near the turbo. 1/4 of my overflow tank was covered in it. You can get it at most parts stores in the exhaust section. Get you a blanket on that thing ASAP.
Well the good thing about the pcv system is it will pull air through the breather at idle and cruise and help keep the oil saturation level down. Just make sure you have a check valve on it. I had the thin, basically sticky backed thick alum foil, exhaust wrap on all my rubber and plastic componenets under the hood near the turbo. 1/4 of my overflow tank was covered in it. You can get it at most parts stores in the exhaust section. Get you a blanket on that thing ASAP.
Mar 19, 2007 | 11:27 PM
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Originally Posted by TurboGibbs
****!!!
Well the good thing about the pcv system is it will pull air through the breather at idle and cruise and help keep the oil saturation level down. Just make sure you have a check valve on it. I had the thin, basically sticky backed thick alum foil, exhaust wrap on all my rubber and plastic componenets under the hood near the turbo. 1/4 of my overflow tank was covered in it. You can get it at most parts stores in the exhaust section. Get you a blanket on that thing ASAP.
Well the good thing about the pcv system is it will pull air through the breather at idle and cruise and help keep the oil saturation level down. Just make sure you have a check valve on it. I had the thin, basically sticky backed thick alum foil, exhaust wrap on all my rubber and plastic componenets under the hood near the turbo. 1/4 of my overflow tank was covered in it. You can get it at most parts stores in the exhaust section. Get you a blanket on that thing ASAP.