Here's a little background: last winter my oil cooler was slobbering oil. I removed it, took it to my local psd mech, he rebuilt, I reinstalled. On a cold morning shortly thereafter, but still on the same fuel, it gelled up. I pulled filter, filled w/powerservice, and it started. It sounded horrible, and fogged BLACK smoke, but it ran, and it began to get better, so I went inside, and came back out, and oil was pouring out the front cap of the oil cooler. I shut it off, restarted, and it quit. It did that twice more over the next few days, then quit, until now.
Fast forward to today. Truck has been setting for 4-5 wks, w/ the fuel filter assy removed (hoses were fubared). I started it about 6:00 last night, 38*, and oil was RUNNING out along the rear seam where the oil cooler bolts to the block. I quickly shut it off, and pulled the dipstick, just barely on the stick. filled oil, and restarted, no leak, 10 mile test drive no leak. This morning, 25*, truck gelled; see above remedy. no oil leak. I drove 10 miles, stopped the truck idled for 15ish min, no leak. I then drove .75 miles, and shut off,20 min later there was a big puddle on the ground. This repeated itself several times this morning. If it was running, it wouldn't leak, if I shut it off it would leak. At 5:00, I came home, and there was no leak when I shut it off. WTF
I probably lost .75 gal last night, on my driveway, and .5 gal this morning, at various locations around town.
I hope I didn't confuse anybody, cause I'm confused. Anyone have any ideas what is causing this, and how to fix it. Who knows, it might not do again for another year.
Fast forward to today. Truck has been setting for 4-5 wks, w/ the fuel filter assy removed (hoses were fubared). I started it about 6:00 last night, 38*, and oil was RUNNING out along the rear seam where the oil cooler bolts to the block. I quickly shut it off, and pulled the dipstick, just barely on the stick. filled oil, and restarted, no leak, 10 mile test drive no leak. This morning, 25*, truck gelled; see above remedy. no oil leak. I drove 10 miles, stopped the truck idled for 15ish min, no leak. I then drove .75 miles, and shut off,20 min later there was a big puddle on the ground. This repeated itself several times this morning. If it was running, it wouldn't leak, if I shut it off it would leak. At 5:00, I came home, and there was no leak when I shut it off. WTF
I probably lost .75 gal last night, on my driveway, and .5 gal this morning, at various locations around town.
I hope I didn't confuse anybody, cause I'm confused. Anyone have any ideas what is causing this, and how to fix it. Who knows, it might not do again for another year.
