This trip was going well until I noticed the oil all over the left side of my truck. Opened the hood and the oil fill cap is gone. I put a bunch of those blue paper towels inside a plastic bag and zip tied it below the neck of the oil fill tube. It is holding for now and hopefully getting into cat for a cap in the morning. Engine is SDP serial.
Question: If my crankcase pressure is high enough to do this, will deleting the DPF and having motor tuned help resolve the crankcase pressure? Anyone else have these problems?
Oil fill cap missing
Discussion in 'Trucks [ Eighteen Wheelers ]' started by gokiddogo, Nov 12, 2012.
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Don't forget to change the crankcase breather filter
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I don't know if they still do but mine came tethered to the tube with a chain.
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Lol I can say your not the first guy to do that I did it a couple years ago I forgot to put that cap on when putting oil in took off down the road pulled into a rest area for a break noticed the oil and went wtf lifted the hood seen what I did and at the same time an older driver walked by seen the mess and said forgot to put the oil cap on eh... As I said ya he started laughing and said don't worry been there done that! top her up and kick on'er. Made me feel a little better bout my foolish mistake
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It must have bounced itself out. I don't change my own oil. This happened about 2500 miles after the oil was done so it had to have been in there until I noticed it just yesterday. Anyway I have a new cap now ($15) and it has a snug fit. We are cleared to launch again.
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regarding the high crankcase pressure change your breather filter . If your sick of changing them I think the latest flash file has higher values for the actual pressure as they have issues with valve guide seals letting combustion pressure past into the crankcase . If that is what is happening try and get the head done under warranty before you do the delete. As dpf and cgi delete will help but the crankcase pressure sensor still works and will log a code. I have also seen faulty wiring from the ECM to the crank case press sensor causing a high pressure fault. If you can't afford a dpf delete I have a file that will make it a little better pm me if your interested. -
I had the entire motor, including the head re-done right at the end of my warranty. They also put on a new system for the crankcase filter so I am not constantly changing it. The filter in there now has its guts ripped out of it. The oil just flows right through. It keeps the motor happy and I don't have the crankcase pressure fault at all anymore.
I am going to have the dpf and cgi deleted by DieselSpec. As far as I know they are the only ones that also do the CGI delete and they have an office that is close to home. The only thing I still have questions for is how emissions is checked when it comes to renew plates. Do they plug into the ECM when they are doing the test for the drive clean in Ontario? If I roll into one of those california checks, can they do anything about it? All the housing for the dpf would look like it works but in reality it wouldn't do squat. Also - would the soot covered exhaust tips give me away and target me for emissions inspection? I am at a point where I either get rid of the DPF and not go to cali or get a different truck. The second option is not very likely. -
I have also removed filter element from them . Good thinking a piece of large heat shrink down the centre plastic filter support will let the oil that enters drain back to the sump without it going out your breather onto front axle ect. You will definitely have black soot in stacks and it will give you away .
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If that happened to my truck I'd be afraid to run it much until after I had gotten the oil changed, probably even get some of that engine oil flush stuff just in case...
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i had that happen to me once. I changed the oil and I knew I put the cap on, but when I got to my destination there was oil all over the side of my truck. I popped the hood and the cap was off, thankfully the chain kept the cap from getting lost. I put it back on and noticed that even when tight I could pull it out by hand so I bought a new one and haven't had a problem since.
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