Howling

With a truck your size it will be fun,defiantly get a cherry picker and take the front tires off or let the air out.

Kman9090

Yeah or go to a junk yard and find something with the same lug patttern in small tires. When I melted my piston there was really no warning. I was just running it hard and pop white smoke out the exhaust and would crank and no start. Figured out all 6 injectors where out but number 4 is where most the damage started. These bosch injectors are junk and need to be the first thing replaced. Also ned better filtration with these high prssure trucks.

PourinDiesel

Check your valve lash/inspect before you pull the head.

omaharam

Yeah. when I said you need to pull the head, I certainly was not saying to do it without checking a few things out first. By checking lash, you might find a problem, and the head may still need to come off or it may not. But if you don't find a problem, you can't just assume the head doesn't need to come off either. It could be possible to have a bent valve or cracked piston and still have the lash check ok.

NYTCTD

When I burnt a piston on mt racecar it pressurized the crankcase, it was vented to the atomsphere through the valvecover and you could see a puff of smoke at idle each time that hole fired... not sure how an 06 CTD vents the crankcase if this would show up or not... ? BP.

tristan21

hate to hear it for ya man. Bad luck seems to be goin around.

Matt S

Ditto. Truck would run but it didn't sound right and the power was off.