Why am I smelling diesel?
04-23-2006, 03:46 PM
#1
Registered User
Thread Starter
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Hazzard County MD
Posts: 93
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Why am I smelling diesel?
I swapped my injectors out, and occasionally get a good snootful of diesel.
I retorques the retainer nuts, and even replaced the o-rings on my connector tubes.
Any help is appreciated.
I retorques the retainer nuts, and even replaced the o-rings on my connector tubes.
Any help is appreciated.
04-23-2006, 05:38 PM
#2
Registered User
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Mission Viejo, CA
Posts: 985
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Check your oil and make sure you don't have fuel in your oil. This sometimes happens if you don't get a connector tube seated correctly or an o-ring gets damaged.
04-23-2006, 08:17 PM
#3
Registered User
Thread Starter
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Hazzard County MD
Posts: 93
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
I couldn't detect any diesel odor in my oil. I did see there's a tsb for 98 trucks, about replacing the connector tubes with the later style. I'll grab a set at work and give them a try.
04-24-2006, 10:03 AM
#5
Registered User
Originally Posted by skargo
I swapped my injectors out, and occasionally get a good snootful of diesel.
I retorques the retainer nuts, and even replaced the o-rings on my connector tubes.
Any help is appreciated.
I retorques the retainer nuts, and even replaced the o-rings on my connector tubes.
Any help is appreciated.
Maybe you are smelling Oil not Diesel which is normal after a oil change
for a long time.
04-24-2006, 10:33 AM
#6
Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: NO CALIF
Posts: 2
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Originally Posted by Olratlr
Maybe you are smelling Oil not Diesel which is normal after a oil change
for a long time.
for a long time.
Please explain. This started happening to me after my first oil change @ 5600 miles.
04-24-2006, 11:12 AM
#7
My guess is you are using Rotella motor oil...the additives in the oil give off a pretty good stink until you run it long enough to cook them out of the oil. Usually a couple hundred miles will do the trick 
Pretty much a normal occurence with that brand of oil.
Pretty much a normal occurence with that brand of oil.
Trending Topics
04-24-2006, 05:58 PM
#10
Registered User
Thread Starter
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Hazzard County MD
Posts: 93
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Originally Posted by HOHN
Why are you smelling diesel?
I don't know. Maybe you are too cheap to buy spray paint like the teenagers use?
I don't know. Maybe you are too cheap to buy spray paint like the teenagers use?
Did some searching and there is a TSB on my year truck(98). They say the 98 24 valve tubes are not meant to be retorqued, and that you should upgrade to the later tubes. I will order them at work tomorrow.
04-25-2006, 07:20 AM
#11
Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Cummins Technical Center, IN
Posts: 6,564
Likes: 0
Received 6 Likes
on
5 Posts
True. There's a certain engine serial number after which the new tubes were factory installed. This is only on the 1998 trucks.
I think www.dodgeram.org has the details...
jh
I think www.dodgeram.org has the details...
jh
04-25-2006, 05:04 PM
#12
Registered User
Thread Starter
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Hazzard County MD
Posts: 93
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Ordered my tubes today, they should be in tomorrow.
Todays newest discover;
I left work to shoot home to let the directv guy in, and my truck didn't start right up like usual. It acted like whenever I crack open the fuel system and have to build prime. It also seemed like it was "lopey". I checked and I have a visible leak on #6.
Guess I'll know tomorrow if it was the tubes. With my pricing my tubes were like $25 apiece
Retail must be terrible.
Todays newest discover;
I left work to shoot home to let the directv guy in, and my truck didn't start right up like usual. It acted like whenever I crack open the fuel system and have to build prime. It also seemed like it was "lopey". I checked and I have a visible leak on #6.
Guess I'll know tomorrow if it was the tubes. With my pricing my tubes were like $25 apiece
Retail must be terrible.
04-25-2006, 06:07 PM
#13
Registered User
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Wichita, Kansas
Posts: 1,385
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Originally Posted by skargo
Ordered my tubes today, they should be in tomorrow.
Todays newest discover;
I left work to shoot home to let the directv guy in, and my truck didn't start right up like usual. It acted like whenever I crack open the fuel system and have to build prime. It also seemed like it was "lopey". I checked and I have a visible leak on #6.
Guess I'll know tomorrow if it was the tubes. With my pricing my tubes were like $25 apiece Retail must be terrible.
Todays newest discover;
I left work to shoot home to let the directv guy in, and my truck didn't start right up like usual. It acted like whenever I crack open the fuel system and have to build prime. It also seemed like it was "lopey". I checked and I have a visible leak on #6.
Guess I'll know tomorrow if it was the tubes. With my pricing my tubes were like $25 apiece
Retail must be terrible.
04-28-2006, 01:45 PM
#15
Registered User
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Denver area
Posts: 44
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Check around your fuel filter housing. I have "crap" in the tank that I'm going to clean up after dropping the tank tomorrow - and it causes the fuel filter to get really dirty really quick. The crap gets into and around the rubber seal on the filter canister, and can cause a slight leak. May not even be enough to drip, but if there's even a slight bit leaking from that canister, you'll get a nose-full.