3406b 4mg.
I have done some searching and keep coming up with a bunch of different things. Posting here to explain most of my situation best I can.
Issues started by getting some coolant into top end, never was in oil pan. Also truck had a slight miss when going down highway could hear it in exhaust. The truck would hydrolock in a cylinder when you shut it off and restart and with that would blow out a lot of white smoke or coolant related not fuel, until 5-10 minutes it would clear up back to normal. With all that and few other small things being the issue I tore into truck and had a crack in head between I take and exhaust valves in cylinder #5 as of today got truck put back together with reman cat head,reman cat nozzles, dual oil cooler piston jets, new gaskets and seals. Had a mechanic help me put everything back together, torqued and adjusted properly. Fired it up and it has now a very rough idle and engine running rough through all rpms, low power, and a steady haze of white smoke constant while idleing and running down road, did not do that before. Cracked injector lines and all 6 seem to be squirting out the same but when cracking #1 and #6 there is no change in engine and the way it runs the rest all make it miss more and die down a bit. Checked return line back to tank and is flowing not sure how much should be flowing back but that as far as I have takin it so far. I don't understand how it can run worse after the work then it did before it was tore apart. Any help is appreciated, hopefully it makes some sense of what I have done, a lot to try and explain
Thanks
3406b running rough
Discussion in 'Heavy Duty Diesel Truck Mechanics Forum' started by Dylan344, Jul 15, 2021.
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Also to add mechanic looked at 1 rod bearing said it looked good along with the liners and pistons so did not touch any of that. He helped Install everything torque and set valve and jake clearances
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Double check the valve and jake clearance. It could also be defective injectors. Good luck, I hate it when things don't go to plan.
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Are cat reman injectors common to have bad ones?
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I have a 3zj with or4337 injectors. I went through two sets of cat reman nozzles and after the second time I had a fuel shop bench test them and they said they were all junk. I tried to have them warrantied but couldnt(have a stupid kenworth/cat dealer locally). I bought a set of interstate Mcbee reman nozzles which lasted about a month. Finally paid about $225 each for new cat 100-7556 nozzles and it’s never ran smoother and hasn’t skipped a beat in two years now
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I was going to get my originals bench tested but they wanted $40 a piece to test when I could buy remans for about $100. Looked into new but none were anywhere close so went with remans, maybe I should take them back out and get them tested.
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Been through that whole frickin deal myself. Finally got warranty to cover 4 of the remains about 3 months after I returned them. Just forked out for the new ones. Built my own pop tester and tested them per Cat procedure. They were good but not exactly the same pop pressure . Cat's tolerances are not what the used to be. I think they allow either 4 or 600 psi variance in a set. Tested several Remans for others and they have all had less than a 50% pass rate.
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Did you figure it out? Switch injectors 3&4 with 1&6 and see if the dead holes move or not.
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Havnt messed with it today but going to try that this afternoon or Tommorow and see if problem switches to other holes or not if not then I guess pump issues
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well I took valve covers off and looked at everything before pulling injectors and swapping them around. I found the on #6 the rocker arm was vertical push rod was just laying against valve cover spacer and the valve bridge I think it's called was off the 2 valves sideway. The nut on rocker arm adjustment is missing
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