99 & up 7.3L Power Stroke Engine and DrivetrainDiscussion of the 99 & up 7.3L Power Stroke diesel engine and drivetrain in the 1999-Up Super Duty trucks and Excursions. No gas engine discussion allowed except on transmissions and drivetrain that pertain to all models. Please confine discussion of topics in this forum to those items that are specific to the 7.3L Power Stroke engine.
That the useless piece of junk let tons of dust in. Here somes pictures of my turbo tell me what you guys think is it "chewed" up like what people say happens with a K&N?
To thows who are going to say I dident maintain it I DID AND FOLLOWED THE INSTRUCTIONS THE WHOLE 9 YARDS.......
should I just trade my truck in now I absoulty do not have the money to put a new motor in this thing?
The dust in the intake tube
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2002 F-250 3.5" leveling kit, 305-70-16 Procomp AT's,Eagle alloys 16" rims,Autometer procomp trans boost pyro gages, AIS, Coolat filter ELC, TS 6POS chip, Banks Billet torque converter, Transgo tugger shift kit, galaxy CB pumpin 20watts, Sirius radio,Kenwood cd player, kenwood door speakers, Infinity tweeters, 500 watt Pioneer amp, 10" Pioneer sub, Panelite LEDs, Custom back rack with LED lights, Bores guide poles, SHO-ME led warning lights, 4" exhaust, Grandrock 5" stack kit with bullhauler stacks,MBRP y pipe cover, 9Ft Fisher plow. Timbren SES
1995 30ft 14K Gooseneck flatbed.
10K winch
All LED lights
Last edited by SmokeyWren; 10-31-2009 at 05:58 PM.
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Looks like you caught it in time. That kind of wear isn't too bad. How is the side thrust & end play? If it's still tight you are ok.
I spun it and it spun smothly but who knows, Its been using alittle oil between 3000 mile changes I was hoping it might be injector O rings but now who knows it lets off alittle blue smokes first start of the day then clears up so idk could be %^&*#@ for all I know. It still runs good so I hope it holds up
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2002 F-250 3.5" leveling kit, 305-70-16 Procomp AT's,Eagle alloys 16" rims,Autometer procomp trans boost pyro gages, AIS, Coolat filter ELC, TS 6POS chip, Banks Billet torque converter, Transgo tugger shift kit, galaxy CB pumpin 20watts, Sirius radio,Kenwood cd player, kenwood door speakers, Infinity tweeters, 500 watt Pioneer amp, 10" Pioneer sub, Panelite LEDs, Custom back rack with LED lights, Bores guide poles, SHO-ME led warning lights, 4" exhaust, Grandrock 5" stack kit with bullhauler stacks,MBRP y pipe cover, 9Ft Fisher plow. Timbren SES
1995 30ft 14K Gooseneck flatbed.
10K winch
All LED lights
Last edited by SmokeyWren; 10-31-2009 at 06:00 PM.
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Your probably fine, unless you live on a gravel road and put many miles on it. The motor is MOST likely ok. Burning a bit of oil is totally normal. In fact my early 99 hated having 15qts in it, it ALWAYS went to about 13.5 or 14qts and stayed there. I started putting in only 14 each change and it never used any between changes again.
Maybe your truck is like that. I had a dealer tell me that was normal for some trucks.
Turbo looks fine too, drive it that way, keep an eye on it and enjoy your truck!
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Your probably fine, unless you live on a gravel road and put many miles on it. The motor is MOST likely ok. Burning a bit of oil is totally normal. In fact my early 99 hated having 15qts in it, it ALWAYS went to about 13.5 or 14qts and stayed there. I started putting in only 14 each change and it never used any between changes again.
Maybe your truck is like that. I had a dealer tell me that was normal for some trucks.
Turbo looks fine too, drive it that way, keep an eye on it and enjoy your truck!
I live on a 1/2 mile dirt road, we own a campground so I'm always passing someone coming in or out in the summer... figures
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2002 F-250 3.5" leveling kit, 305-70-16 Procomp AT's,Eagle alloys 16" rims,Autometer procomp trans boost pyro gages, AIS, Coolat filter ELC, TS 6POS chip, Banks Billet torque converter, Transgo tugger shift kit, galaxy CB pumpin 20watts, Sirius radio,Kenwood cd player, kenwood door speakers, Infinity tweeters, 500 watt Pioneer amp, 10" Pioneer sub, Panelite LEDs, Custom back rack with LED lights, Bores guide poles, SHO-ME led warning lights, 4" exhaust, Grandrock 5" stack kit with bullhauler stacks,MBRP y pipe cover, 9Ft Fisher plow. Timbren SES
1995 30ft 14K Gooseneck flatbed.
10K winch
All LED lights
Your probably fine, unless you live on a gravel road and put many miles on it. The motor is MOST likely ok. Burning a bit of oil is totally normal. In fact my early 99 hated having 15qts in it, it ALWAYS went to about 13.5 or 14qts and stayed there. I started putting in only 14 each change and it never used any between changes again.
Maybe your truck is like that. I had a dealer tell me that was normal for some trucks.
Turbo looks fine too, drive it that way, keep an eye on it and enjoy your truck!
I remember hearing that it was best to run a diesel engine a quart low, that if you filled it to full, most engines would just burn it off. I heard that a long time ago from an old timer, so I don't know how it applies to our engines, or even if it was ever true.
I know my old 6.9 went through a lot of oil, and the first quart seemed to go the fastest, then I started keeping it a quart low.
On my 7.3, I fill it to about 1/4" below the full mark when I change it. It seems to use about a quart every 3K or so, at 135K. My wife's Mercedes 300 diesel doesn't use a drop, at 150K, even when topped off to the full mark.
I run an AFE stage 2 kit on my truck, and have for about 45K miles. Not sure if it is a K&N, but it is definitely similiar. I clean my filter once a year and never see any dirt/dust in my intake tract. It is important to reoil those filters correctly. Maybe your not using enough oil. I would also recomend buying a prefilter for it. That would probably cure your problems.
I run an AFE stage 2 kit on my truck, and have for about 45K miles. Not sure if it is a K&N, but it is definitely similiar. I clean my filter once a year and never see any dirt/dust in my intake tract. It is important to reoil those filters correctly. Maybe your not using enough oil. I would also recomend buying a prefilter for it. That would probably cure your problems.
I ripped the worthless POS off and put my AIS back on, I have cleaned these scence I was 12 (had them on my atvs) I had a 400ex start using oil cause of these filter that should of been reason enought to not put them on my $30,000 truck.....But I'm dumb I guess. I always cleaned it inside out plenty of cleaner,let it air dry, oiled the hell out of it. There junk, surgical gauze is not a good enought element to keep dirt out IMO
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2002 F-250 3.5" leveling kit, 305-70-16 Procomp AT's,Eagle alloys 16" rims,Autometer procomp trans boost pyro gages, AIS, Coolat filter ELC, TS 6POS chip, Banks Billet torque converter, Transgo tugger shift kit, galaxy CB pumpin 20watts, Sirius radio,Kenwood cd player, kenwood door speakers, Infinity tweeters, 500 watt Pioneer amp, 10" Pioneer sub, Panelite LEDs, Custom back rack with LED lights, Bores guide poles, SHO-ME led warning lights, 4" exhaust, Grandrock 5" stack kit with bullhauler stacks,MBRP y pipe cover, 9Ft Fisher plow. Timbren SES
1995 30ft 14K Gooseneck flatbed.
10K winch
All LED lights
K&N are pure crap and as you see should be never used on a turbo engine..well any engine IMO.
I'd do a oil analysis to see how the motor is doing
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Funny that an oil analysis is mentioned. I just had mine tested after 6500 miles of use. I use Blackstone Laboratories, and have for years. They check for around 30 different materials in the oil. They can tell how your engine is wearing by what metals they find in the oil. They also check for fuel and antifreeze in the oil. My test came back with excellent results. Lower than average contaminants in the oil. I als had a test done to see how much additives were left in the oil that fight acid and corrosion. Blackstone said I had a lot of life left and my oil was clean. They recomended that I try waiting 8000 miles for my next oil change and get it retested.
Based on this I would double check your cleaning/oiling method. Also get a prefilter like I mentioned. I do not run a prefilter on mine, but you may be in a dustier area than me.
BTW, this test consisted of Motorcraft 15w40 with 1 quart of Lucas Synthetic Stabilizer added. Which is a debate in anothe thread on this forum.
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Removed K&N to find......
F-250 3.5" leveling kit, 305-70-16 Procomp AT's,Eagle alloys 16" rims,Autometer procomp trans boost pyro gages, AIS, Coolat filter ELC, TS 6POS chip, Banks Billet torque converter, Transgo tugger shift kit, galaxy CB pumpin 20watts, Sirius radio,Kenwood cd player, kenwood door speakers, Infinity tweeters, 500 watt Pioneer amp, 10" Pioneer sub, Panelite LEDs, Custom back rack with LED lights, Bores guide poles, SHO-ME led warning lights, 4" exhaust, Grandrock 5" stack kit with bullhauler stacks,MBRP y pipe cover, 9Ft Fisher plow. Timbren SES
I'm 22 I cant exactly afford a 10,000 motor right now
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