Alright So I got the 2008 Sprinter that I spoke of in my last post. It has been a journey and quit a bit of learning. She is Running now but is having some serious oil consumption issues. I will give you a run down of what we have found going into her, what we have fixed, and what we have discovered while driving it.
2008 Dodge Sprinter, was an old airport shuttle extended roof and length, with the bus doors, she's a very unique sprinter!
She came to me with a Bad Cat, A turbo that had been replaced, and a bad DPF.
We changed the Cat out, as the mechanic who had worked on it before welded in a smaller after market cat that caused the system to build to much back pressure causing her to go into limp mode.
Ordered an OEM Cat, and DPF fixed this and it works great it seems.
We look into the Glow Plug code it's throwing, turns out the mechanic before me broke glow plug #2. My mechanic does not want to attempt to extract it since he does not have the right extraction set so we left her in and decided to address this later with a mechanic in L.A ( I'm in Phoenix) we change the oil & air filter, and oil and reset all codes.
She Seemed to be running great for the first few days, then boom on comes the oil light.
I checked the oil levels and wow! she's less two quarts in 250 miles! Ok so this is a fluke put some oil in and keep checking her.
Turns it's not a fluke, I'm seeing 1 quart of oil disappear every 100 miles. I'm not getting black smoke, there is not excessive soot out of the exhaust pipe. So I'm starting to lean towards piston rings.
She is now throwing codes, P04040, P2457, P040B Which are generic EGR codes.
As well I started getting RPM fluctuations and a shudder when cruising down the highway this get worse the warmer the vehicle gets. The rpms will go up about 150-200 rpms and a shudder will come from the transmission area of the vehicle. Is this the transmission slipping? I have plans to get transmission fluid replaced on Friday
Please if you guys and let me know what I should be looking at for losing so much oil, if I can't find anything I will next get a compression test to check rings...
Thank you all for the help.
2008 Dodge Sprinter, was an old airport shuttle extended roof and length, with the bus doors, she's a very unique sprinter!
She came to me with a Bad Cat, A turbo that had been replaced, and a bad DPF.
We changed the Cat out, as the mechanic who had worked on it before welded in a smaller after market cat that caused the system to build to much back pressure causing her to go into limp mode.
Ordered an OEM Cat, and DPF fixed this and it works great it seems.
We look into the Glow Plug code it's throwing, turns out the mechanic before me broke glow plug #2. My mechanic does not want to attempt to extract it since he does not have the right extraction set so we left her in and decided to address this later with a mechanic in L.A ( I'm in Phoenix) we change the oil & air filter, and oil and reset all codes.
She Seemed to be running great for the first few days, then boom on comes the oil light.
I checked the oil levels and wow! she's less two quarts in 250 miles! Ok so this is a fluke put some oil in and keep checking her.
Turns it's not a fluke, I'm seeing 1 quart of oil disappear every 100 miles. I'm not getting black smoke, there is not excessive soot out of the exhaust pipe. So I'm starting to lean towards piston rings.
She is now throwing codes, P04040, P2457, P040B Which are generic EGR codes.
As well I started getting RPM fluctuations and a shudder when cruising down the highway this get worse the warmer the vehicle gets. The rpms will go up about 150-200 rpms and a shudder will come from the transmission area of the vehicle. Is this the transmission slipping? I have plans to get transmission fluid replaced on Friday
Please if you guys and let me know what I should be looking at for losing so much oil, if I can't find anything I will next get a compression test to check rings...
Thank you all for the help.
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