sawzall5150
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- Joined
- Feb 9, 2016
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- 56
- Location
- missourii's ozark mountains
- Occupation
- Seld employed welder, fabricator,millwright,piping
Hey everyone!
I could really use someone with a lot of 3116 knowledge with this. In a nutshell, last spring, pulling trailer with my manlift and heard a smack, lost power, truck running like a chevy v8 on 5 cylinders. Eased to top of hill, pulled to side of road and shut it off. Got out, opened the hood, oil all over the road, 2 push rods and pieces of cam follower plate laying around. That's what leads to my problem I have now. I did my research and got it running like a sewing machine. I noticed no water visible in the radiator reservoir and decided to top it off. Here's the catch- almost as soon as I pour in coolant I can hear it going into the oil pan? So I decided to drain the radiator to get a idea of where the water level is to get a idea of where it's leaking.
Not a drop of water in radiator. Well that explains the extra 3 1/2 gallons of black pudding that was in the oil pan when I first drained it after it dropped the push rods. So, with a empty radiator, I pour in coolant and almost immediately I hear it going in the oil pan. It has to be from water pump or oil cooler right? Anything else that could leak is above this level. I'm reading that bad cooler can only put oil in water not water in oil? Of course in this scenario nothing is pressurized. I have nothing to indicate oil in water. Is there a passage related to water pump that could cause this? I believe this problem contributed to the failure but not completely. This is a Cat Reman engine with only 15,000 miles that never got the top end ran after break in. It had 2500 miles when I bought the truck and not being a Cat guy I had no idea it had to be done. Most of the rockers were REALLY loose. The old man I bought it from had no paperwork on the motor. I went to Cat with the serial # and they showed the engine being remanufactured but no documentation that it ever left the plant so they couldn't do anything for me. I have a mechanical 8.3 Cummins 300 horse in the shop for this truck but I'm still in the parts gathering stage and will be for quite some time. I'm really needing to get this truck back under a trailer. My old F350 thanks you in advance for any relief you can give.
I could really use someone with a lot of 3116 knowledge with this. In a nutshell, last spring, pulling trailer with my manlift and heard a smack, lost power, truck running like a chevy v8 on 5 cylinders. Eased to top of hill, pulled to side of road and shut it off. Got out, opened the hood, oil all over the road, 2 push rods and pieces of cam follower plate laying around. That's what leads to my problem I have now. I did my research and got it running like a sewing machine. I noticed no water visible in the radiator reservoir and decided to top it off. Here's the catch- almost as soon as I pour in coolant I can hear it going into the oil pan? So I decided to drain the radiator to get a idea of where the water level is to get a idea of where it's leaking.
Not a drop of water in radiator. Well that explains the extra 3 1/2 gallons of black pudding that was in the oil pan when I first drained it after it dropped the push rods. So, with a empty radiator, I pour in coolant and almost immediately I hear it going in the oil pan. It has to be from water pump or oil cooler right? Anything else that could leak is above this level. I'm reading that bad cooler can only put oil in water not water in oil? Of course in this scenario nothing is pressurized. I have nothing to indicate oil in water. Is there a passage related to water pump that could cause this? I believe this problem contributed to the failure but not completely. This is a Cat Reman engine with only 15,000 miles that never got the top end ran after break in. It had 2500 miles when I bought the truck and not being a Cat guy I had no idea it had to be done. Most of the rockers were REALLY loose. The old man I bought it from had no paperwork on the motor. I went to Cat with the serial # and they showed the engine being remanufactured but no documentation that it ever left the plant so they couldn't do anything for me. I have a mechanical 8.3 Cummins 300 horse in the shop for this truck but I'm still in the parts gathering stage and will be for quite some time. I'm really needing to get this truck back under a trailer. My old F350 thanks you in advance for any relief you can give.