BIZARRE Problem With A 2003 Cummins Ram.
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My older brother lives in Costa Rica. His FIL owns a 2003 2500 Cummins Ram that he uses as a work truck. This truck has been ridden hard and probably has 150-200,000 miles on it. He has (according to him) recently developed an issue.
He says that he can fill the crankcase with oil, drive 10 miles, and the crankcase will be empty. In addition, there is diesel getting into the oil. If he pulls the oil fill cap off the valve cover and puts his hand over the hole with the engine running, his hand will be wet with diesel and the dipstick has diesel on it.
It sounds to me like (this being Costa Rica) the diesel tank at the gas station may have had gasoline in it, he ran it, and totally destroyed his pistons and valves causing uncontrolled oil burning which is sucking the diesel into the crankcase through the head.
Any thoughts?
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Re: BIZARRE Problem With A 2003 Cummins Ram.
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I should add that the truck has no visible oil leaks.
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Re: BIZARRE Problem With A 2003 Cummins Ram.
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Or a piston that's melted.
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Re: BIZARRE Problem With A 2003 Cummins Ram.
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A faulty turbo seal would explain the oil consumption but not the diesel in the oil.
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Re: BIZARRE Problem With A 2003 Cummins Ram.
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A faulty turbo seal would explain the oil consumption but not the diesel in the oil.
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Re: BIZARRE Problem With A 2003 Cummins Ram.
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12 or more qts of oil in 10 miles with no leaks ? and that thing would be smoking like a freight train
and if the rings were in fact that blown out , I would be suprised it ran at all
I have a feeling that there is some exaggeration there...but he says it's definitely losing lots of oil.
One more thing, there is a fair amount of positive pressure in the crankcase. He can feel it blowing air out of the oil fill.
I'm wondering if it isn't a combination of bad rings and a stuck injector.
Pressure in the crankcase like that says a ring or piston gone way south. I remember the 2.2 tubo cars would blow the turbo seal and use oil like crazy but they would also smoke out the shop when you pulled it in the shop. Ron
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Re: BIZARRE Problem With A 2003 Cummins Ram.
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Thanks for the advice, everybody.
As I said, the truck is in Costa Rica so who knows what it could be! I basically repeated all of the advice here to him and he says he'll let me know when he finds something out.
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