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[Stefaansie]

Cedrick, has your weekend started already brother?

I have spoken to a friend of mine who is fairly clued-up on the diesels. When I mentioned that the sump is very shallow towards the front, he said that pistons 1 and 2 could have picked up a lot of oil. Makes sense. 10L of oil lying right up front could come pretty close to the pistons. ( but I just can't think that it was designed that way)

Grant, because these motors only gets run in at about 300K km, I didn't consider the valve stem seals being shot.

Any ways, I'm not going to worry about it any further.

Cheers.

[caz]

As you say they are only run in at 300K....and am glad you are not rushing out to get new valve stem seals. A previous comment was to check the oil level and this is critical on a diesel motor. If the oil qty is above normal the engine can and sometines does run on its own oil. This is called a run away diesel and the revs increase until the engine fails, usually a rod through the block. If you google run away diesel engines there is a lot of info on the subject. On my boat motor the oil was getting into the breather sysyen, the pipes were dripping with engine oil.