MotorOilMcCall |
01-06-2009 03:19 PM |
12V's Dead... No coolant flow, oil leak, #5 cylinder not firing!
Well, driving down to the family X-mas party, rolling through the hills, the truck starts to sputter, and dies a few seconds later. Look at my gauges once she's off the highway, and the thing is overheated, bottoming out the needle... Never had that happen before. BTW, this is on the 98 12V 5-spd 3500. So I run to town with my mothers Jeep I managed to snag while she was at the party, ran to the parts store and grab a new thermostat. Put that in, let the engine cool, fire it up, and it runs like crap. Now, there's no oil leaking at this point, but its definitely missing (in the #5 cylinder apparently), and I still have oil pressure according to my gauge. So I have it towed to D&W diesel in Buffalo. Well, they finally got to looking at it today (I dropped it off last Monday), and told me there is NO coolant flow, that the #5 cylinder isn't firing (haven't pulled the injector yet) and there is a big oil leak under the passenger side (might have been the drivers side, can't recall I was too ticked off :argh:).
So... What could have happened here? :humm: The #5 cylinder might just be an injector, they have 300K miles on them, but the oil leak scares me big time. I'm hoping its just the turbo (cause I have a spare one of those kicking around). The coolant flow also seems odd. I just put a new thermostat in the thing, what else could be blocking the flow?
How screwed am I? :moon: I mean, I do have the 99 to haul my arse around, but the 97 is for sale (cleaned up, I don't want to drive it at all), and the 98 is DOA...
Any thoughts anyone?
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