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I have a 2003 C15 550 cat. New turbo new injectors new CAC new cam new exhaust system manifold muffler and so on. the head is a year old. Replaced water pump and thermostats with sleeves new radiator as well. closed off the water ports from the air compressor to see if I was getting pressure from there no change. I have no cross contamination no anti freeze in the oil, no oil or fuel in the anti freeze. This motor is a high mileage motor the head was put on at 1.4 million but the liner protrusion was good 3 to 5 thousand. I found a thread on doing the compressor test and will be doing that, just to rule it out as it is new as well two months old. my question is can cup seals put combustion pressure into the cooling without contamination. I kind of feel like I may have a cracked liner because I have no white smoke out of the exhaust and the truck has been running the same no change in performance at all. the motor is at 1.6 million and I had hoped to take it to two million without an in frame it uses a gallon of oil about every 6 thousand. I figured if I had a liner drop it would have showed up in the exhaust with white smoke. I don't think the head is cracked because the pressure is building the minute you start the truck no matter weather hot or cold. any help or advice on this would be great thank you.
I would like to say thank you to Mr. Haney and everyone who has posted all the performance mods and add on for the cat motors. it helped me take a MBN 5.25 mile to the gallon turd cat to a 7.25 mile to the gallon cat, hell yeah and power to boot. these are the mods I made. Turbo non gated compressor-175958, turbine housing-171698, cartridge-175964 C16 turbo-175963. PDI exhaust manifold. 10R8501 stock injectors 6NZ cam stock. 1999 stock 550 HP tune from Caterpillar and a free flow muffler from Pittsburg Power. I have run this setup for a year now and it has already paid for itself. I tried to go for less on the power and more on the mileage side of things and its really worked even better than I had hoped for.
blowing anti freeze out the overflow
Discussion in 'Trucks [ Eighteen Wheelers ]' started by Mr. Marvel, Mar 1, 2014.
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To answer your question "can cup seals put combustion pressure into the cooling without contamination", I would say no. All all the pressure is fuel. My brother had one doing exactly what you are describing. He figured it to be a head gasket, drove it like that until he had time to fix it and it was the head gasket.
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i agree with you,same thing happened to me on my 3406e cat with almost a million mile on it.but the question here if the head is one year old why he didnt put a new head gasket when the head was replaced???
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Likely the liner(s) that were at 3thou 200,000 mi ago are 1-2thou now and causing a head gasket leak.
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had coolant coming out the overflow hose. it was the head gasket.
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Liner protrusion wasn't good if it varied from 0.003 to 0.005 from one end of the block to the other. It is a blown head gasket or possibly a cracked liner flange, both of these present with the same symptoms.
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I agree that its most likely a head gasket but I have seen this happen only one time but An air compressor head gasket went bad and was showing the same signs as an engine head gasket. If your air comp has some age on it then you might wanna try replacing it first .
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Is it coming out constantly or in surges? The reason I ask is my C12 kicked out some while idling when I was loading a couple years ago. Was automatically thinking head gasket, but turned out to be a bad radiator cap.
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You probably split the fire ring on the head gasket. If that's what happened you won't get white smoke with little performance change. Just loss of water. I'm finishing mine up with the same issues. If you do it yourself pay extra attention to your block with those kinda miles on it. Will probably need to be cut and shimmed
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