BigBlue

Well if you took all of my little drips and made them into one big one it would that big. Glad to know the motor is just getting a good work out.

Red3quarter

Blue, I've noticed on my truck if I've been running it hard empty or towing, it will drip some and give off a little haze from the tube. I have the bottle back on the truck right now, I did have it off for a little while but it spotted up the concrete a little w/o the bottle. If i ran my truck the "normal way" it wouldn't haze at all or drip much. Like a few others said, it's just sweatin' .

Ground Shaker

Yea, if oil an. came back clean then I wouldn't worry. Cummins like oil, all over, espeically where you are working if you changing something out.... Nature of the beast.

HOHN

That's crap. No engine is designed to leak, and it's not normal.

BB-- soak it with degreaser and figure out where it's coming from.

A Cummins is supposed to have the oil on the OUTSIDE and nowhere else....

JMO

BigBlue

Only place I can figure it's coming is the blow by tube. With the truck running there are no leaks at all. Just a vapor coming out of the blow by. I'm gonna rig up a bottle to catch all that crap cause I definately don't like the under belly of my truck coated. Especially since I just got it all degreased from the vacuum pump leak.

RowJ

Fixed you dip stick yet? Would help if you knew how much you were down... or maybe overfilled?

RJ

BigBlue

Nope but I pulled it out with a pair of needle nose pliers. The level is fine. Right at or just a smidge above full.

RowJ

While true, our CTD are not exactly designed for 500+ hp. With all the changes we make to them, a little oil underneath seems to be more the rule than not!
It has been for me, on occasion when working or playing hard.

Big Blue - Sorry, I remember hearing something about 'super glue'. Thought your dip stick was in place for life....

RJ

HOHN

Nope, not exactly


But they still take 500hp quite gracefully I think!

Jambbii

If I beat the living crap out of my truck for a while I will get a puddle of oil sometimes out of my draft tube. Its only sometimes. Not sure how or why but it has happened to me a couple times.

Josh

TheBigNasty

Making power increases cylinder pressure and temperature, which increases blowby and oil vaporization. This means more stuff out your tube and it is just like those little misters at six flags, it condensates somewhere.

Is that what your leak is, I don't know, but it does happen. Thats why it is a canister and not just a tube.

BigBlue

Well took it on a 200 mile round trip today and played with it some. No oil underneath the truck. Guess I had just beat on it enough that day to actually give it a work out. Now I don't feel so bad for those little 55-90mph runs I do once a day. It's cake walk.

Ph4tty

Unless you have some sort of bypass filtration it is time to change the oil. Big sticks soot up the oil even if it is synthetic.

TheBigNasty

Exactly, it's not only what come out of the oil over time but also what goes into it. Oil analysis is good but unless they gurantee me a new motor if they don't catch something, I'll still continue to change my oil every 3k......or when it is convienient.

BigBlue

I need to get an analysis done with these injectors to see where I stand. It's getting due to changing time anyways.

Brandon, let's not discuss your oil change intervals alright.