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emiller3
11-29-2009, 10:06 AM
It all started with a light haze that smelled like diesel coming from the exaust.Then a week ago I had a couple injectors fail so we get a brand new set of injectors and the diesel smell is gone but it is smoking a lot more now with nothing coming out the oil fill like when I melted the pistons.All the balance rates look great and ran a compression check today and they were all close to the same.Coolant level hasn't changed in 10 months.Plan on bringing it to a buddys shop monday but is there anything else that I should be checking?Any advice is appriciated.

emiller3
12-13-2009, 11:29 AM
Tried bypassing the oil supply to the charger all together and let it run for a while but still smoked.Decided to pull the motor and tear it down again.Pulled the heads and pistons last night.Pistons and rings look fineNothing visibly wrong withe the heads but will bring to the machine shop tommorow to have checked.Hope to find something soon and get it back together.

emiller3
12-15-2009, 12:58 PM
Heads checked out good,and after showing the pistons and rings to machinist he said that must have glazed over cylinders and the rings wasn't sealing off properly.Now I plan on getting some new rings and honing the cylinders.Hopefully this fixes everything.

tonydduramax
12-31-2009, 11:18 PM
just a thought I don't know all that much about internals but maybe lbz rings with the lb7 pistons installed by mistake may have caused the prob too tight, I would have thought some of the key dmax guy's would have posted a option. good luck.

dmerre89
01-01-2010, 02:52 PM
Hope you get it figured out soon man