Roger Shoaf wrote:
"Karl Townsend" wrote in message
anews.com...
"The Kid" has been fixin on his diesel pickup at my place. He got it
running
today but only on seven cylinders. he's got a programmer to read codes and
#3 injector is not operating. he thinks at least four hours work to
replace
it.

that's time he hasn't got right now. He's working six or seven days a
week.
He closes on his new home next week and has to move out of the condo and
have it ready for renters June 1.

Anyway, will it harm anything to drive it 50 miles to his new digs? Then
he
can do an hour or so each evening.

Karl




My suspicion, (not gospel) is that he will be fine especially if the
injector is *not* spraying fuel. I have driven gassers for thousands of
miles with a miss on one of the cylinders and the only noticeable problem
was the engine ran rough, had less power and didn't get as may MPG as it did
before.

50 miles is not very far being a little out of balance especially on a heavy
duty engine.


OTOH if that injector is dribbling, he could get a couple of pints of
diesel in the sump in a 50 mile trip. A gas engine, the charge is
largely vaporised and the oil temperature is most of the time high
enough to recycle any gas vapours that make it past the rings back into
the inlet manifold via the crankcase breather. Diesel doesn't boil out
of the oil anywhere near as easily, it just thins the oil down till it
cant lubricate enough, then the bearings pick up and likely enough seize.

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