Hi....My truck is an 01, F450 with 65,000 miles. It weighs about 13,000 lbs and has a large 10' high box on the back. It has new hybrid injectors and a chip from Swamps.

I brought my truck in recently and this is what they found;

SCANNED FOR CODES, P0108 BARO RANGE HIGH. CHECKED PRESSURE PIDS BARO=12.95, MAP=12.86, EBP=12.97 KOE ALL OK, KOEO INJECTOR SELF TEST PASS, CYL. CONTRIB FAIL CYL 3 AND CLY 8. ALL GLOW PLUGS 1.3 OHMS RESISTANCE ENGINE HOT.

PERFORMED MANOMETER TEST, IDLE 4" OF WATER WOT 8" OF WATER, SPEC AT 3' OF WOT NO LOAD. LOTS OF BLOW-BY SEEN AT IDLE.

REMOVED FUEL FILTER LID AND INSPECT, CLEAR FUEL INSIDE BOWL.

The truck consumes about 1 quart of oil in 2,000 miles. Is this rate of oil consumption normal with this size of truck? What about the manometer test?

If the truck is plugged in it starts fine with no white smoke. If it is not plugged in and the temp just above freezing it smokes a lot when I first start up and then progressively less. After 4 or 5 minutes of idle it runs clean. Is there anything I can do to reduce the smoke on start up?

Thanks

 

your smoke is from your fuel not burning completely when your engine is cold and as far as doing anything about it the only thing i can think of is keeping it plugged in

 

The smoke is normal. Mine and a buddies truck does the same thing on start up with our 250cc hybrids.

 

Anyone have thoughts on the oil consumption and manometer results?

 

The smoke is not "normal", but its something you can work around.

My guess is, with the blowby you have there is a compression issue. I would have a compression check done.

I am dealing with the same issue right now, I have a $400 junk yard motor in my truck right now that has low compression (325-350psi) but starts and runs good otherwise. I dont plug mine in, I just start it and give it 8-10 minutes to warm up. Smokes pretty good for the first mile, then done.

 

So CSIPSD is this a motor with performance parts that you are just getting more life out of or is this just a temp motor.

Could this be anything besides a compression issue? The truck sure drives with lot's of power even on the stock setting on the Swamps chip. This is even without having installed the 38R and larger exhaust. I supose I should get the compression tested, so I really know whats going on. I bought the chip, injectors and turbo from Swamps because I thought this engine was good.

If the compression is the issue, I will have to decide to re-build on put in the cummins 12 valve I have. If I go for the cummins, I would have to sell the chip and injectors, but hope I could use the 38R. I know swamps said they could machine an adaptor for me, but they are not sure about the oil return. Anyone used a 38R on a 12 valve cummins?

Thanks for any thoughts on this.

 

what was the story with this, did you do a rebuild? was compression low?