I know there's a couple of you around here with some experience in this engine.
Did an oil change on it yesterday and had glitter. Looks like most of that is non-magnetic.
I dont have a lot of history on this engine. Bought it a year ago, had the oil changed at a shop that is well reviewed, and he said the oil looked ok.
I've put about 1100 miles on it since then and recently did a bunch of work to it because the ICP pressures were low.
Pulled the injectors to o-ring them
replaced the ipr
glow plugs
rebuilt turbo
The passenger side valve cover I did manage to knock a little dirt into from the valve cover as I was removing it. went through and cleaned up all the grit I could find w/ qtips - it was very minimal. But nowhere in anything I took apart were there any metal flakes.
There are only a couple of places on this engine that have non magnetic metal in them
Rod/crank bearings
HPOP (aluminum and brass)
turbo (brass)
The drain plug magnet appears to have gotten off the oil plug and was beat up, I managed to retrieve it, but there was magnet 'grit' that got picked up by the magnet when I was sorting through this mess.
My thoughts are. The HPOP pressure was a little low, which started me working on things - and these pumps have been known to eat themselves from the inside - so 1 possiblity.
the magnet bits got picked up and worked through the low pressure pump chewing up that pump, or the turbo bearing may have pooped itself or the hpop is eating itself.
If the crank bearings have gone I don't know that it's something I can deal with myself at this moment. And generally if the engine is running, there has to be some oil pressure in order to feed the injectors.
So, I was trying to decide if there's a better way to go about this. I've gotten a new low pressure pump. Was trying to figure out how to flush what I can of the engine, and depending on what I see from the low pressure pump, ordering a new hpop. and running some cheap oil through it to try to flush the rest of the engine out.
I ordered an oil filter cutter to have a look in there.
Any other thoughts on this?
I'm posting a couple of pics up The pan was probably not lab clean, but didn't have all of that flake in it. I probably knocked a little grit into it wiping the underside of the oil pan. so there could be a little sand/dirt in the pics, but it isnt from inside the engine. the round black piece is whats left of the oil plug magnet and the black flakes on the magnet as best I can tell are some of the magnet leftovers.
Did an oil change on it yesterday and had glitter. Looks like most of that is non-magnetic.
I dont have a lot of history on this engine. Bought it a year ago, had the oil changed at a shop that is well reviewed, and he said the oil looked ok.
I've put about 1100 miles on it since then and recently did a bunch of work to it because the ICP pressures were low.
Pulled the injectors to o-ring them
replaced the ipr
glow plugs
rebuilt turbo
The passenger side valve cover I did manage to knock a little dirt into from the valve cover as I was removing it. went through and cleaned up all the grit I could find w/ qtips - it was very minimal. But nowhere in anything I took apart were there any metal flakes.
There are only a couple of places on this engine that have non magnetic metal in them
Rod/crank bearings
HPOP (aluminum and brass)
turbo (brass)
The drain plug magnet appears to have gotten off the oil plug and was beat up, I managed to retrieve it, but there was magnet 'grit' that got picked up by the magnet when I was sorting through this mess.
My thoughts are. The HPOP pressure was a little low, which started me working on things - and these pumps have been known to eat themselves from the inside - so 1 possiblity.
the magnet bits got picked up and worked through the low pressure pump chewing up that pump, or the turbo bearing may have pooped itself or the hpop is eating itself.
If the crank bearings have gone I don't know that it's something I can deal with myself at this moment. And generally if the engine is running, there has to be some oil pressure in order to feed the injectors.
So, I was trying to decide if there's a better way to go about this. I've gotten a new low pressure pump. Was trying to figure out how to flush what I can of the engine, and depending on what I see from the low pressure pump, ordering a new hpop. and running some cheap oil through it to try to flush the rest of the engine out.
I ordered an oil filter cutter to have a look in there.
Any other thoughts on this?
I'm posting a couple of pics up The pan was probably not lab clean, but didn't have all of that flake in it. I probably knocked a little grit into it wiping the underside of the oil pan. so there could be a little sand/dirt in the pics, but it isnt from inside the engine. the round black piece is whats left of the oil plug magnet and the black flakes on the magnet as best I can tell are some of the magnet leftovers.
