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Closing the loop, ran the truck last Saturday and then had it on jack stands all week while doing hubs. This morning I cracked the oil drain plug and no water or coolant just nice oil so nothing drained down over the week. Here's to running it and torquing the heads having sealed up whatever...

Just now in bed at the end of the evening after starting it 7:30 so not a lot of energy left for a write-up but got everything blood out and buttoned back up and after diagnosing a dead start switch it came right to life and sounded great. No gases to speak of at either the oil or radiator caps...

Got it buttoned up to the point I could spin the motor today with injectors out and expelled coolant from number 5 cylinder. Injectors are back in as well as return lines working on cleaning up the fuel filter assembly before reinstalling and bleeding the fuel system for the help of the first...

Bolt number three in the torque sequence on the rearward head was the only one that was not to spec torque it also happens to be the one right over top of the cylinder that had the coolant in it I retorqued to 140 lbft but stopped short of the recommended 157 because it didn't seem like it was...

I'm helping to run a VBS at our church this week so have had little time but my torque converter wrench came in the mail yesterday which is basically like a boxed end crowfoot wrench for torquing the head studs underneath the rocker arm I'm right now taking a load of tires and rims to the tire...

That's good to know I just figured I was likely to knock it out of adjustment, but torquing without removing them seems to have been army procedure given the shape of the tool they designed for it Hrm..., Not sure I'm with you there, I can see a scenario where after sitting for 3 years...

@cattlerepairman thanks for the quick confirmation it's always helpful to know somebody else has got an ear out for you to be a sounding board I'm with you on the reuse of the gasket both of mine are in excellent condition although smeared with RTV that I'll have to remove I'm going to see if...

All right let's keep this train wreck going. Borescoped all the cylinders the last one I checked because the injector was stuck was number five two - full of coolant to the throat of the injector tube. Verified by sight and smell - all other cylinders are shiny and clean except for one poor bug...

Thought i'd follow up here in this thread for future searches as well as since several chimed in to help: First cleaned this area since some kind of oil leak somewhere has made the whole engine-side filthy. Pulled the injector lines, wasn't quite as easy as "one assembly" but did manage to...

Yes I believe it does, that's what the T junction is at the top of the return line rail that's on the injectors. Anything I need to know about that with regards to the process I'm undertaking of pulling injectors to spin it over?

Thank you for the encouraging words I've been mildly freaking out not necessarily about a head gasket because that's within my capabilities of doing but that I've set the target for the 4th of July and my seven and four-year-olds are super stoked I've already got a replace the oil cooler cover...

Okay after some conversations with my brothers I think I've landed on it being coolant that has leaked down into the oil while sitting. I don't believe it was mixing with the oil while previously running (ala the milkshake of doom) and then separated over time, because there was only clean...

Check that probably a quart or less of water wife says it's yellow in color did not have a coolant smell but a strong oil smell so hard to tell

Pulled the front plug, nothing but black oil, then pulled the back drain plug that drains the little bump-out area on the rear part of the oil pan. What appeared to be water, maybe 1/2 gallon came out FIRST and then nice black oil. Did not appear to be coolant from the smell, though there is a...