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............your oil plug falls out and all the oil in your engine drains out while driving down the highway???

Your engine quits and you roll to a stop................

Saw a Superduty down on the way home from work so I stopped to see if I could help.

The guy had changed is oil 10 days ago and says he forgot to tighten the plug. :eek: He had a couple of buddies pick up a new plug and four gals of oil which they had put in when I stopped.

Truck would not start and was turning over real slow. I put my jumper cables on a leaking set of 3yr old Interstate batteries for 10 minutes and we still could not get it going.

Made a call to Rtxcoon who suggested we either bleed the hp oil rails or fill them with oil. We filled them with oil and with a little more cranking she fired off.

Wow you should have seen the oil slick under that truck. I would have hated to have been behind it going down the road as it bleed of 17 quarts of oil. :eek:


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That is one advantage to the high pressure oil actuated injectors. If you run low on oil the engine just dies rather than blowing up.
 

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Another easier way is to removing the oil sending unit and fill the high pressure oil pump up with oil till it is completely full. Does the same thing as the oil galleys but is a little easier. Primes the hpop faster. Did this too many times at work cause of other idiots who could not understand that an engine needed oil to work properly after doing a PM.
 

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Black_Mamba said:
Another easier way is to removing the oil sending unit and fill the high pressure oil pump up with oil till it is completely full. Does the same thing as the oil galleys but is a little easier. Primes the hpop faster. Did this too many times at work cause of other idiots who could not understand that an engine needed oil to work properly after doing a PM.

They were doing that when I pulled up.


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