​Parts ordered, lets get this thing apart.

Unplugged the battery, removed the intake, and then the fuel bowl

​fuel pump out:

...and with a little bit of work the turbo is out too!

Next move is going to be to get those pesky up-pipes out of there....

​Thats good enough for now.  Think im going to soak the up-pipe hardware all weekend and pick back up on this on Monday.

Diesel is back in the driveway

​Ok, here goes.

Last night on my way to work it wasnt running right.  It started rough but then was cruising along just fine.  Made it halfway and the CEL came on and it cut power.  Still running smooth, but no power at all, couldnt maintain 55.  Finally i pulled over and it stalled and wouldnt restart.  Pulled the dispstick and it didnt look right, almost like it was low on oil.  Called a buddy who was on his way to work too, he swung by my place on his way and grabbed oil and my scanner.



Sat for maybe 5-6 minutes and it fired right up an ran, so i heaeed to the Wawa right down the road from work to fuel up, and waited for my bud to arrive.



Maybe 15 minutes later he shows up so we pull the stick and its definitely low.  Ended up taking 5 quarts to fill up.  This truck doesnt leak oil, so im not sure where it went.  Thinking injector orings, even though i did orings and injector cups back in March '20.

Anyways, drove the rest of the way to work just fine.  Drove it home in the stock tune and my buddy said he could still see it smoking a bit when i would hit the throttle, so now im thinking injector orings.
​Get home and pull the fuel filter, looks ok

​Take a peek down into the fuel bowl and, well......

​Pulled out the stem and fuel bowl heater

​Yup, its full of aluminum shrapnel

​So for now its parked in the driveway.  Going to assume the fuel pump is imploding.  Tired of putting replacement pumps in it, so i guess its time to do an electric fuel conversion & fuel bowl delete while im in there.  Of course this requires unbolting & moving the turbo over a little bit, which means its time to replace that suspect up-pipe.  This is going to hurt the wallet....