gmctd
04-18-2005, 15:29
Well, I am at a complete loss, here, folks - what must I do to be accepted, to be part of this exclusive club, to experience the camaraderie and warm fellowship resulting from a common bond.
ronniejoe and John Kennedy are in it - why not me?
I've tried most everything I know - overheating, high Boost levels, lugging the engine in 3rd\over from 30mph, fully loaded.
Even drove the truck 50 miles with the flex-plate completely separated at the crank hub, where the crank inertial imbalance vibrated the entire 8500lb chassis.
To wit -
I've been wanting to pull the oil pan for a complete re-inspection since that unfortunate incident, last year.
So, hearing a strange scrunching, tinny noise coming from the middle-ish area of the oil pan, I proceeded to pop it off, again.
Only to discover, to my chagrin - no oil seeping from hairline cracks, no varicose veins of shattered cast-iron, no wobbling crank throws, no loosened main caps.
In short - nothing. Nada, zip, walla, nein, naught, the big ought.
No, wait! There's one, there in that next to last pan-bolt hole...goes from the inner crankcase wall to the outer block wall, just off-center.
But, where's the seeping oil? I wiped that area more than 15mins ago, and still no oil.
Well, curses and drat! That really is beginning to look like where I maybe scored the pan rail with the putty knife, trying to separate the RTV to get the pan off.
Still no luck..
What glaring quality control oversight has the General overlooked, that I might be in this lamentable predicament.
I mean, just that one little crack would have been sufficient to send me packin' for Cummins - that 6BT of reknown, the 5.9 stick, the big 360, oh, yeah!
Well - there's always another day, right?
Guess I've got mixed emotions, over this - sorta like watching my mother-in-law drive off a cliff in my recently purchased DMax
Oh, yeah - that noise? Looks like it was the trans cooler lines vibrating on the side of the engine oil-pan
Now - what sorta luck is that? ;)
[ 04-18-2005, 06:08 PM: Message edited by: gmctd ]
ronniejoe and John Kennedy are in it - why not me?
I've tried most everything I know - overheating, high Boost levels, lugging the engine in 3rd\over from 30mph, fully loaded.
Even drove the truck 50 miles with the flex-plate completely separated at the crank hub, where the crank inertial imbalance vibrated the entire 8500lb chassis.
To wit -
I've been wanting to pull the oil pan for a complete re-inspection since that unfortunate incident, last year.
So, hearing a strange scrunching, tinny noise coming from the middle-ish area of the oil pan, I proceeded to pop it off, again.
Only to discover, to my chagrin - no oil seeping from hairline cracks, no varicose veins of shattered cast-iron, no wobbling crank throws, no loosened main caps.
In short - nothing. Nada, zip, walla, nein, naught, the big ought.
No, wait! There's one, there in that next to last pan-bolt hole...goes from the inner crankcase wall to the outer block wall, just off-center.
But, where's the seeping oil? I wiped that area more than 15mins ago, and still no oil.
Well, curses and drat! That really is beginning to look like where I maybe scored the pan rail with the putty knife, trying to separate the RTV to get the pan off.
Still no luck..
What glaring quality control oversight has the General overlooked, that I might be in this lamentable predicament.
I mean, just that one little crack would have been sufficient to send me packin' for Cummins - that 6BT of reknown, the 5.9 stick, the big 360, oh, yeah!
Well - there's always another day, right?
Guess I've got mixed emotions, over this - sorta like watching my mother-in-law drive off a cliff in my recently purchased DMax
Oh, yeah - that noise? Looks like it was the trans cooler lines vibrating on the side of the engine oil-pan
Now - what sorta luck is that? ;)
[ 04-18-2005, 06:08 PM: Message edited by: gmctd ]