Ok. Just kind of frustrated and looking for any ideas. It is an 03 6.0 F350 160,000 miles. Is running great and just took a trailer of cattle to auction just the other day. It had no mods on it when I bought it a couple years ago and still does not. The truck sits during the week and works on the weekends. The other day as I was headed up the drive I noticed the smell of oil, and when I parked and got out there was a growing puddle of oil under the truck so I shut it down. The gauges never moved, but I did have a dummy light come on. I googled the light and it was the air filter needs changed notice. I popped the hood and noticed the air restrict gauge had blown clean off the back of the air filter and oil was blowing out of it. I was dark already so have not gotten a good look at it in daylight. I will try to tear into it tomorrow and see what I can find and take some pics. Anybody got any ideas or similar problems?

 

The oil won't be coming from thre, it is most likely the breather tube is off the drivers side valve cover, it sits right behind that area. The breather tube goes from the valve cover right into the intake befor the turbo, that is why we always have oil in the intercooler pipes. Alot of times the oil will start seeping right through the silicone boots , remember there is up to 35psi forcing through them. The later trucks have a different valve cover and breather line because the 03 and 04s had an issue with the breather, both coming loose and also it seemed to draw more oil vapor through them. Basically it is normal but it might be getting time to replace the boots, there are aftermarket ones that resist the oil better and probably cheaper then stock.

 

Awesome, I just got the breather and air horn off the turbo and am looking at (I guess) the breather tube. I will take some pics, but I think you are probably right. I was seeing a lot of dollar signs flashing when I saw that much oil on the ground.

 

Ok, I know I said that I would get pictures but got busy. I took everything down on the drivers side of the engine, but could not find any oil on the valve cover or any where near there. I took the water coolant cap off to wipe it down and there is oil in it and no sign of water? I have googled for hours and checked every post on the forum and can find nothing as to whether or not this is supposed to have oil in it. It is the reservoir directly above and behind the air intake filter. Any ideas? I am bout ready to haul her to the shop cuz I am out of Ideas.

 

Attachment 26475Did not know the pic would be so small. but that is the reservoir that I thought was the coolant.

 

You have a ruptured oil cooler, the oil in the degas bottle is not good. The oil cooler rebuild kit is around $250, you will need a set of intake gaskets and turbo install kit which is around $11 to do the job. While you are in there it is a perfect time to do an EGR cooler delete if you haven't allready done it.

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Oh yeah, add a coolant filter too, that will keep the new cooler from clogging.

 

Is the cooler you are talking about on the radiator or is there a different one? So obviously drain the coolant and oil, Is there anything else I should look out for? The Turbo install kit... Is that a gasket, and is there anything that I should look for other than the oil cooler? I have heard that there are two different ways to do the EGR delete. One- put a small puck in the exhaust tube that diverts to the EGR, Or two- put in a straight pipe that goes up to the Y by the turbo.
I have been a mechanic for the Army working on HUMMV engines so I thought getting this powerstroke would be right up my ally, but this thing is a different animal than the old Army crap.

 

Do a search on YouTube and you can find videos for doing an egr delete and also a lot of other good videos.

This is just one of them

 

The oil cooler sits down in the valley in the front of the engine. You have to pull the turbo, the intake manifold and then you can get down at it. It's internal, not exposed like the radiator.

Make sure you get that radiator flushed really well (maybe a trans shop), and get all new coolant hoses too.

Hopefully you caught it in time.

In the future... a set of gauges could have prevented this. Oil and coolant temp gauges will tell you what's going on with the oil cooler. If the difference in temps starts getting crazy, the oil cooler is clogging. If left like this it will rupture like you see, and the crazy temp spread can lead to blown egr coolers and blown headgaskets.

Get it fixed, pray you didn't do anything else, listen to what Bob said, and get some gauges on there too.

 

"Hopefully you caught it in time."

!um! Well, what am I looking for that would help indicate that I caught it in time? or didn't... sigh


Also how do I flush the coolant ports in the block of this mess? Any ideas? Thank you all so much for the help so far