Thanks Randy. We made it home w/o incident in our 2002 F450 Winniebago with the V10.
OK, truck is a new story. Not a good one either.
So the noise is at about head gasket height. It seems to be coming from the rear pass side. It's echoing enough that I can't tell if it's a rod or what.
Symptoms- besides the loud noise, I pull the oil fill cap and there is a mass amount of air coming out... maybe a valve or pushrod or lifter or ... oil looks fine, no diesel smell, exhaust is fine, oil pressure is fine, runs fine w/o missing.
So Ford 6.7's have had a few rotated lifters that BANG on the cam and make a similar noise.
1st shop ran an injector test and they are all working fine in all conditions. Dang, I was kinda hoping that it was injector related. Hmmm... no compression test was done there.
I'm hauling it home on a buddy's goose neck trailer next Wed. Only thing around besides a $1,000 + ride on a rollback.
So I'm taking it to a local shop and all they do is diesels. They build em from the ground up and suggested the Ford 6.7 rocker/pushrod/lifter issue which I had seen on about 5 fb videos. I would much rather buy a new cam and lifters (I'm getting real proficient at that!
) rather than go out and buy a used replacement engine and drop it in before I find out exactly what the cause is. I am sure a low mile 6.7 Ford engine ain't cheeeep.
Sound like a plan?
(I hope you can listen to the video on headphones or a good set of speakers as a cell phone does not in any way convey the true sound of the noise. I also hope you can hear & see it as I can't see any videos on my desktop still. I am going to try a different something (lol) that Jon suggested to see if that makes it so I can see the videos I post)