ISX Hole in the Block

The swap over to cat power shouldnt be to hard, do a general search of ISX to c15 adapter harness I bet there is a company producing them. There are several making adapters to go from mechanical to 70 pin cat just a plug up deal from whatI understand. The one I looked at in truck certainly was, I have always used wiring harness that came with eng and a schematic. The one I seen went from a peek to a 6NZ 70 pin (major change) and was only 600.00 roughly. AS far as the ISX I have worked on several stock ones never seen one vent but really not versed in them well enough to say.

 

The fleet I do for had me to pdi ecms on isx egr's, one broke a piston and destroyed it self that first trip. The second one destroyed a turbo second trip. Both engines had about 100000kms on them.

 

I had a buddy with an isx. With how much he paid in the last 3 years to keep that motor going he coulda done a c15 swap.

 

Yes to answer your question. An ISX with a hole is the block is a fairly common occurrence.

 

Did you redo the oil cooler, or just the remove the EGR cooler?

 

A large outfit here in northern ca. had a couple of engines become ventilated, the suits showed up and told them we are sorry but you did not use our filters. If I remember right it was a wrist pin snap ring that failed.

 

Ouchy... post pics if you get them.

I'd like to see what it looked like and extent of damage.

 

I cannot confirm this but you ae the third person I have seen say they had a PDI or other delete done, then had the block fail on them. Lst 2 were on the drivers side just under/below the ECM area. I know for a fact that PDI tunes are horrible for the ISX CM871, and not very good for the CM870's, causing excess head pressures, cracked heads, and frequent turbo failures. It would not be out of the question that excess head pressures could also contribute toward this problem as well.

some more reading on the whole 'Delete thing'...

http://www.thetruckersreport.com/tr...s-eighteen-wheelers/220280-isx-600-turbo.html

 

We fitted the pdi ecm to a road train after we had the two fail in the fleet. The owner made us pull it off after just 1100 kms. To aggressive he said.