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  1. duramax on fire

    How much longer will this cylinder last.

    I found a complete short block for 500 with good looking piston walls. I guess I'll have to go that route. Go ahead and hone, re ring and put new bearings in. Is there any forum members doing machine work any where around dallas
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    How much longer will this cylinder last.

    ill try to messure it tomorrow. Its probably only a credit card thickness at most. It catches the finger nail pretty easy.
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    How much longer will this cylinder last.

    Well on top of everything else with this new truck found this scratched up cylinder. Probably happened when previous owner drove with contaminated oil. Question is will this cylinder last another year until I can afford a rebuild. I cant really get a good response if you can sleeve or not...
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    New Duramax owner loosing coolant

    Well I think I found the problem. The damn water pump. Dirt dobbbers clogged both weep holes so the bad pump had no where to leak water. It had to go inside the motor.
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    New Duramax owner loosing coolant

    I havnt really explored the oil cooler because the coolant has no oil in it. Any have any suggestions while I'm waiting on the heads to be done.
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    New Duramax owner loosing coolant

    well tore It done toady. But still cant find any evidence of coolant leak. Head gaskets didn't show any leaks. One piston did look clean looking. So I don't know. Took the heads to the machine shop but I already removed the cups not thinking and he needed them installed to pressure test. Ill get...
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    New Duramax owner loosing coolant

    Ya. My gut tells me the head is cracked. The pic of the valve cover only has 150 miles on it.
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    New Duramax owner loosing coolant

    Well tore it down again. Pulled all cups. But I can't tell if there leaking. O rings are flat looking. Don't know if ya can see it in he photos.
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    New Duramax owner loosing coolant

    I think a lot of the first coolant loss was catching up on a low system. I though it was odd one glow plug was extremely dark Since the valve covers i have lost about a quart in 150 miles. Still getting steam and water droplets out of the pcv hose. Im probbaly going to try replacing the...
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    New Duramax owner loosing coolant

    Well just can't think of anything else besides pulling the cab and doing head gaskets and up. I thought maybe the one dark glow plug would tell me that's the cylinder and I could try replacing that cup. But was to unsure on a diesel if the coolant burning turns a cylinder dark
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    New Duramax owner loosing coolant

    If a cylinder is burning coolant wouldn't the glow plug be steamed cleaned or would it be solid black. I was reading another post on a guy burning coolant and his combustion chamber was solid black. I had one glow plug that was solid black. Rear driver.
  12. duramax on fire

    Pre filter install

    My mig ran out of wire while welding. I'm going to finish it by going up the sides and a couple spot welds on the back. It won't be coming off.
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    Pre filter install

    The filter base was a wix 24770. Less than 30 on Amazon and the cat number is 1r-0750. And of corse some 1/2" fuel line.
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    Pre filter install

    Another pic
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    Pre filter install

    Just making another thread for a pre filter install may help someone else out. Previous owner already cut the fuel line and added a pump so my install was easy. 50 dollar total cost. Wix base and cat 2 micron filter. Changed the main filter also with a racor. So much easeir now changing filter...
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    New Duramax owner loosing coolant

    ok thanks judd. Im going to send off a sample of the old oil I just took out and go from there. I really didn't like the idea of coolant sealant. Rather fix it right. Are the factory head bolts ok for reusing or they like the 6.0 fords. Also which brand head gaskets are best to use
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    New Duramax owner loosing coolant

    It washed of really easy with a water hose and the stuff didn't stain the valve cover at all. Anybody else have this problem
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    New Duramax owner loosing coolant

    well took valve covers off. Not sure what to do. The top of the heads were clean. But a lot on the covers. Couldn't see any evidence of the cups leaking. All glow plugs had some carbon built up so I don't think its burning it. I cleaned the valve covers off and put all back togather. The PCV...
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    New Duramax owner loosing coolant

    No egr.
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    New Duramax owner loosing coolant

    Done it twice truck cold and like warm no change. I'm going to tear it down tomorrow morning. I'm just going to buy new cups and o rings since I'm in there. Can I reuse the o rings on the injectors. There 35k old. I figured on buying new copper gasket
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