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Ten years ago I bought a firetruck with a 6V53T in it to swap into the hot rod Autocar cab-over I've been working on. On the way home with the firetruck, something went wrong in the engine, lots of oil smoke, loss of power and I knowingly drove it too far with too little oil. I never tore it down as I didn't want to have a bunch of pieces-parts to keep track of before I was ready to rebuild it. Well, today was the day!
Knowledgeable folks have told me that it was turbo or blower seals, I thought wrist pin seals, but no one ever mentioned this.
I heard on a different forum that the truck had been in a local truck repair shop and had a head off. I'm willing to bet someone didn't get a valve keeper in right.
Looks like I'm going to need a different head and at least one cylinder kit. I haven't had a look at the crank yet to check for damage from running low on oil.
Knowledgeable folks have told me that it was turbo or blower seals, I thought wrist pin seals, but no one ever mentioned this.
I heard on a different forum that the truck had been in a local truck repair shop and had a head off. I'm willing to bet someone didn't get a valve keeper in right.
Looks like I'm going to need a different head and at least one cylinder kit. I haven't had a look at the crank yet to check for damage from running low on oil.