Help Needed HELP!!! Oil bown all over the engine compartment.

[davemcp]

Hi all,

I am new to diesels and just bought a 2004 F350 lariat 4X4 Dually with the 6.0 diesel. Being new to diesels and not familiar with this particular model I did what I do with my older cars and put a bottle of Lucas Oil treatment in it. After about 1000 miles the engine started to run rough when up to temperature, stalling at idle. I scoped it and found out that I had 2 injectors not firing. I drained out all the oil and replaced it with 5W20 oil and a can of sea foam. This didn't seam to do much so I also added a can of sea foam to the diesel to clean that side of the injectors, this seemed to work and the truck resumed running normally. I put about 50 miles on the truck like this wanting to run out the treated diesel which smoked like crazy. Running it home one day it started loosing power and would make pfttt sounds like it was not igniting but just vaporizing liquid in the cylinder. I started pulling over and heard a pop and I immediately stopped to find oil sprayed all over the drivers side of the engine compartment. I have no idea what let loose but know that something went wrong. I also noticed that the coolant bottle had lost fluid. This is an early model 2004 so the engine is more like the '03.

Any ideas?

It still has the stock EGR cooler and Oil Cooler as far as I know.

Dave
I am stuck without my truck!!!!

 

[DaveBen]

5W20 oil is too light weight oil. You should be running 5W40 or 15W40 oil for diesel engines (CJ-4, CI-4 ratings). IS the 5W20 oil diesel rated? If not, get it out of the engine. The oil in these engines does a lot more than lubricate. It powers the injectors, through the High Pressure Oil Pump (HPOP). If the oil is too thin, you loose the driving force for the injectors. There is an oil line going to the turbocharger and no where else.
Dave

 

[A/Ox4]

Stop adding additives to your oil. Especially Lucas oil. That stuff is garbage in the oil system, its way to heavy and it foams in the HPOP. The only additives I would recommend are REV-X and Archoil. Nothing else in the oil. Fuel, do what you want, it probably wont hurt anything, but some are better than others.

Also, Dave is right. That 5w20 oil is much too light. You need a properly rated CJ4 oil of 15w40 or 5w40. Some have gone to 5w30 with good results.

 

[Dogman]

Get the right oil in the truck and see it you can get it fired up and firing on all eight. The coolant loss needs to be look at next. Put some distill water in not your tap water. Look and see if you have the coolant bubbling, you'll find white crust crap around the Degas bottle cap too, if so need to get it checked by a dealer or a good diesel shop that has worked on 6.0 motors. If not need to check the oil cooler could be plugged up. My want to have a shop do this too.