@ Doda, where from Southern Indiana are you from? I'm from Vincennes, you close? Also, the whole putting the pedal to the metal and getting no power is exactly what happens with my girl...
@ bobfbigman and Mdub707, good call on the internal part of the deal. I'll take a look at that later on down the road when I have more time to access all that good stuff. For now, I'm able to flush all the fluids, replace, flush again to find anything abnormal, which will be done this coming weekend. I'm going to try and take the EGR out tonight and see what's up there. I'm going to video the sequence of events from getting the truck to start, idling, driving, and then trying to turn back on.

Thanks again! :c:

Okay, so, I got the EGR valve pulled out tonight and found that while it was dirty, it wasn't stuck wide open... After a good cleansing of it, the valve moved more freely, so I re-installed it and I got the same problems. I may just end up replacing it anyway for safe measures. I decided to leave the truck in park and see how many RPM's she'd make at full throttle, and it barely made 3k... Also, on top of the engine under the turbo on one of the rubber hoses, I noticed that there's an oil seeping out, not a lot, just little drops. I'm wondering if maybe the hose is bad? Would that have an effect on it?

Any time you have an oil leak it could be a problem, since our injectors are fired off of high pressure oil...

From your description, sounds like it might be the tubo drain, but hard to tell.

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ooopppsss, that fitting we are talking about on the HPOP is realy an //05// problem, the 03 uses a totally different pump. we could be looking in the wrong place, maybe a clogged Cat converter?? haven't heard of any issues but a possability,, maybe I missed it but what is your turbo PSI, sounds like your not getting enough air now that I think about it.

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just as a note/ I have an early 04 basically an 03, I have 230k on it and about 185k I had 1 injector fail, but I fixed it, the little nut and bolt/ maybe a 4-40/ on the injector came loose, the nut was off and just laying on top of the head, wound up having a dead mis until I really jumped on it shook like hell at low mph, put locktite on it and put her back on. it was hard starting and stumbled like heck, hopefully when you post the video we will be able to help you out alot better, we are throwing alot of possabilities at you but it will get figured sooner or later.

Hey everyone, just putting in an update. I had a video that I was going to put up, but once I started reviewing it, I noticed THERE'S NO SOUND! so I'm going to have to redo it. Also, I pulled the cat converter off, definitely helped a tad tad bit, but not enough to make a huge difference. I also ran a programmer on it to see if I can get some codes, and no codes appeared. Took her out on the highway to take to a friends house to help me out, could barely get to 50 mph... I had San Diego freeway traffic behind me lining up (embarrassing but oh well) After taking of the CAT my buddy drove behind me while I drove back home and he said that I was blowing a cloud of white smoke going up the hill but not on the highway.

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Hey all, I redid the video and posted it on YouTube. Here's the link: :pca1:

Not good, sounds like head gasket completely blown out or the up pipe to the turbo is completely loose but that wouldn't cause the shaking like a head gasket would, either that or you have some bent pushrods or broken rockers, that hollow sound is normal on the pasenger side, some valve is on that side that makes that sound..

the up pipe to the turbo, is that the little piece of pipe that's in the air intake tube just before the turbo? I know that may sound like a bit of a dumb question but I gotta ask it.

up-pipes are the exhaust tubing that connect the manifolds to the turbo. Those are up-pipes. If you had one cracked or leaking you'd know, they make some crazy noises.

If you have white smoke pouring out while you're driving, you're burning coolant. It's either an EGR cooler, or headgaskets, or both. I think you have more than this going on though. When my headgaskets have failed, I've never lost that much power and still been able to drive it to my destination.

well well well... this is just a strange dillema for me then... I'll be posting another video of the truck on the road later today if not this week. You'll be able to really see what is going on. Thanks for the info... I'll take a look at the up-pipe today as well and hopefully we can take another step into figuring this out.

get a cheap laser temp gun from harbor freight or somewhere else, then on first start up use the temp gun to check the temps at the exhaust manifolds right where it comes off the head, they ought to be close to each other, if you find a cold one then that is the cylinder with the problem, easiest to hit them right through the wheel well, that way you can isolate it to a single cylinder problem. this will find a bad injector/bent pushrods/broken rocker/ basically anthing that would cause a dead cylinder