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ChevyDieselLLY

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well the wife went back to michigan for the week so i thought i would use the time to get out of the house and to the track. i got 2 runs in 3 if you count the red light i got and going 30 mph. times we nothing great. still 12.7s i was thinking this was due to full trim 1/2 tank of fuel and really crappy tires. well saturday Dustin @ Diesel Addiction was moving, both house and shop and i offered to help. so we packed up 2 trailers and our trucks and drove from Greenville to wilimington NC. the entire drive was fine. truck drove great as always. well lately i have been getting white smoke at start up unless pluged in. so we thought i might need a new glow plug or 2. since blance rates and everything were good. only thing we didnt check was compresson. well after a long day of moving and getting everything taken care of it is time for me to head home and let my dogs out. seeing how they have been in side since 9 am when i left and it was now going on 10 pm. so i get about 5 mins out side of wilimington driving on I40 and i get the change engine oil light come on. well i knew Dustin had changed my oil when he put the twins on due to drillin the pan. and i knew he most likely didnt reset the timer. and i was going to change it this weekend any how. well i am going up a small hill not doing anything crazy and no more then 15 secs after the CEO light came on then off i hear a sound i will never forget. i lost all power of my truck, oil pressure went to 0 so i turn it off ASAP and get to the side of the road. first thing i my mind is "save the turbos turn the truck off!" wel i pull over and i get out, i see something lecking from under the truck. well once Dustin showed up and got me to his new shop (which is very nice and i am excited to be the first to have a truck there) we start looking around. well it seems that a grape fruit came out of my motor..... so needless to say i dont think my glow plugs were bad ever...
 

TrentNell

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Damn man :( sorry to hear , i can t believe you windowed the block already ? Did you ever even get to run big tuning through it or better question is what kind of tuning/ PW had you been running? I do know with those twins and the dual C's you dont get too many WOT's with "Big" tuning but i ran 700 through mine for 50 or better runs down the strip .

Once again sorry man ,hopefullly you get her back up and running ,and stronger than ever . :hug: Are you going to build it ?
 

ChevyDieselLLY

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thanks man, i ran my old race tune at the track but only ran at the track 4 times with the twins. i did have a larger tune but was scared to run it seeing how it would max out my 60 psi gauge. right now it is up in the air i just got off the phone with the wife and she isnt to happy. i think i might do a very cheap build ie rods cut pistons studs and main studs. but we will see have to talk to her some more about it first.
 

02bigstrokin

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that really sucks man.:( man the nc guys didnt have a good weekend at all. you windowed the block, i toasted a trans, and travis ripped his hitch clean out from under his truck, taking the spare tire carrier and everything with it.:eek: what the hell is going on!?
 

ChevyDieselLLY

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wow what was he doing pulling stumps out of the ground?

i will try to get pics up as soon as i am able to. i couldnt believe how large the hole was in the block.

oh tell travis he wins the race at OBX not sure if i will be there but if i am i will have a cooler full of beer :thumb:
 
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TheBac

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Didnt we once talk about this possibility, Justin? Sorry to hear it actually happened. :(
 

paint94979

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Sorry to hear this... it is pretty uncommon to see a grenaded block. Most likely one of those fluke things as you weren't running that much power with the tune you had on it anyway. Still sorry to hear about the engine
 

02bigstrokin

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wow what was he doing pulling stumps out of the ground?

i will try to get pics up as soon as i am able to. i couldnt believe how large the hole was in the block.

oh tell travis he wins the race at OBX not sure if i will be there but if i am i will have a cooler full of beer :thumb:

he was sled pulling. oh and for obx.... i dont know if we are even coming now.
 

ChevyDieselLLY

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Sorry to hear this... it is pretty uncommon to see a grenaded block. Most likely one of those fluke things as you weren't running that much power with the tune you had on it anyway. Still sorry to hear about the engine
yea im a little excited to see just how bad it is once its out. maybe i will make something out of the block and rods. table out of the block and lamp out of the rods?
he was sled pulling. oh and for obx.... i dont know if we are even coming now.
hope you got it on video that had to me a sight to see.
Sorry to hear it. We need shirts.

we sure do.
 

ChevyDieselLLY

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thanks everyone, its getting easier to accept... at least until i have to start buying the parts lol

would you say to do anything other then rods cut pistons studs and a dampner?
 

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Again, I'm sorry Justin... Was talkin to Dustin about it and we came to the conclusion that most motors go when they aren't bein run hard, from now on I'm keeping mine WOT while I'm driving it... should last longer that way :eek:

All these problems in NC are scaring me... I'm knocking on wood hoping it doesn't happen to me yet, just not ready to put it all together at this point in time.
 

ChevyDieselLLY

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you should be good with just the turbo, i think mine didnt like the dual c's and the 60 plus psi of boost. but oh well... just means i get a mild build and can play with it even harder now HAHA :rolleyes: