Just giving some options without making any judgments. I can't see what the owner sees. As my father used to say, "hope for the best but prepare for the worst."
As I and others stated, hopefully the repair shop stands by their work and will correct the issue, if there is one.
Brand new rebuild, oil leak
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Steam clean and locate source of leaks first.
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I don’t know if this is good enough for you all to tell but that is where I’m seeing the one I’m mainly concerned about. I’m far from a mechanic but I just realized that is just the valve cover, right? I’ll get better pictures this afternoon, it was still dark when I was at the truck this morning. This is on the passenger side. Everything is freshly painted so it’s pretty easy to tell where it’s coming from. I don’t think steam cleaning will help much.
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Another example of why I don't like Cat motors.
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That's not a headgasket area. It's a 2 part value cover gasket. Cheap easy to fixGod prefers Diesels Thanks this.
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Thats not a leak, its a minor seep
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I don’t think anything should be leaking on a rebuilt motor but if you consider that it only has about 800 miles on the rebuild then that is going to be ugly as soon as I put the truck to work. I do feel dumb for thinking that was the head gasket though. I just saw oil and kinda panicked.Rideandrepair Thanks this.
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That's good news. That's a valve cover gasket and is an easy fix that you can do yourself. Fix it yourself or get it fixed and Keep truckin!
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I'd make sure bolts are tight. Very likely you find threads damaged in valve cover base. Torque spec is 13 +/- 2 lb/ft.
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That’s definitely a valve cover issue and definitely not a leak but a seep.
Definitely do as @spsauerland has suggested but a lot of times you will get seeps when something has either sat for a while or you move from colder climates to warmer climates or vise versa.
Also not sure what the issue was with the Cummins shop?
The local Cummins shop here is the only one in the area with a dyno and they can dyno any manufacturer giving hp and torque numbers along with blow by numbers.Rideandrepair, Roberts450 and spsauerland Thank this.
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