Deuce "D" Turbo Piston Destruction

[dittle]

Just gonna throw up a couple of pictures of a piston from a Deuce. The piston sleeve disentegrated and you can see the resultant damage done to the piston during the drive home. It also destroyed one of the valves.

 

[scooter01922]

Yikes, lucky that all you got was one valve and the piston,and not sent the whole mess out the side of the block. Have a fun rebuild.

 

[dittle]

The truck belongs to a museum where I volunteer. I just posted the pictures to show of the damage. It also shows that a deuce missing an entire piston still is reliable enough to get home, just have some black crap flowing out of the stack when doing it this way.

 

[scooter01922]

Thanks for the pics, it is amazing what these engines can take and keep on going.

 

[wsucougarx]

Yikes, exactly what did your truck do when that happened?

 

[dittle]

It started spitting oil/diesel combination out of the stack but it kept driving (was told this buy the crew that picked it up).

 

[jatonka]

Deuce D turbo destruction

I bought a deuce non turbo with a skip in it last year, brought it home, adjusted the valves, still skipped. Did a compression test, number 3 cylinder no compression. Pulled the pan, no sleeve left in number 3. All little pieces in the oil pan. Tore down, installed a used sleeve and piston, put her together, use it all the time now. VERY tough engines.

 

[derby]

RE: Deuce D turbo destruction

I thought these engines had wet sleves?

 

[FreightTrain]

RE: Deuce D turbo destruction

Nope.Dry sleeves.

 

[dk8019]

RE: Deuce D turbo destruction

Wow, hard to believe it would run like that, but it's good to know!