Mopar1973Man

Oil will burn off during running. This is why I mention looking after it sat for a night it will leave a wet trace on the valves stem as you look in each port. Intake is bit tricky but if you had a wifi bore scope you could look at each port see if the valve stems are wet with oil.

Sadly if it's not leaking on the ground it leaking internally and being burnt as fuel. Vacuum pump would leak on the ground Front / rear crank seal would leak on theme ground Tappet cover would leak on the ground. Valve cover would leak on the ground. Valve seals yup it would be burnt as fuel and only be seen after the engine sat all night and Valve stems would be wet with engine oil. Piston rings yup could burn the oil as fuel too but blow by would be noticed typically. There is one case here from @jlwelding that had a cracked piston that past blow by test. Only proper way to test is a compression test. Lower compression would point that out.

It's electronic based issue in my opinion. VP44 ECM ...but ECM would throw a code. VP44 has been known for problems without setting a code. Strange like it's skipping a cylinder like injector drop test on a DRBIII tool.

Some how you need to see the valve stems to see if oil is weeping past the valve seals. 350k on Beast If valve guides are bad the valves will rock and eat the seals off the valve. This will allow oil in during idling and low boost conditions.

I'm glad I marked the solution above for you. Seems you got it mailed in. Just adjust for steering center on the drag link.

That turbo looks fine. I would pull the manifold off and check the exhaust ports for oil.

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/16ordx3xH9/ Yeah i returned to Facebook and started posting to share with my local community.

Let me think on this more. I'll sleep on this and see if I can figure another test to get a clue. Oh. How about error codes? Still the same?

Today I was out in the yard running the little skid steer, loading bricks and concrete. Just getting things sorted out of the dirt is taking the most time. I just found the couch, which is pretty flat and crushed. Finding items from Marks' living room, I found the new but beaten network hub, which was less than half a year old. At about noon, it got pretty hot here, so we abandoned the front yard and came in. Still I've gotta give a huge amount of love for the Dischinger Family that continues to allow us the use of the skid steer. I made some pretty basic cheeseburgers for lunch. I don't know why... I was in my grey scrubs and grabbed my phone, went out, and just recorded a video and uploaded it to Mopar1973Man TikTok explaining I'm back but different from my cancer. Then, to flip the camera around and show off the work we managed to get done cleaning up the mess of a shop being smeared across the yard. Tiktok & YouTube have the video on my Mopar1973Man Accounts. Yeah I'm trying to let people know I'm back and things are starting to settle down now my health really isn't changing much right now but I have issues yet. I got busy trying to organize a bathroom between @Tweety Bird and myself. Crazy when there are two of us who do makeup work in the bathroom. There is a fairly large counter area for all of our makeup stuff. Yeah, I go into my little corner and start unloading my travel bag since I'm home for now and not traveling anywhere for now. Amazing how much black eyeshadow powder is on the mirror and even the counter. Time to clean it up. That's a hobby I enjoy is my makeup artistry with my character Titanium. I'll continue to post this in his blog area.

Out here there is only NAPA. No other part stores for miles. No autozone or similar. When the filter will not hold to the lid there is a problem.

Weird. As far as I know, the pitman arm and the input shaft can't be moved because they are keyed in one position. Are you sure you are at the true center of the steering box? Was the gear and rack messed with inside the steering box?

Be aware, I just found out the new filter I picked up this morning is defective. How? If you pull the old filter off the lid, it typically takes some force to pull the filter from the lid. Now, the new filter head that fits into the filter lid is too small and will fall out when just inverting the lid to install. Do not use these filters, you could be stuck digging the filter out of the filter can. I had pulled the last two filters they had to try them all them are too small. Now I even check my local repair shop in Riggins, ID and they have the same issue with the filters too. Just a heads up warning. https://www.napaonline.com/en/p/FIL3585XE?srsltid=AfmBOor2fo7JREB0ssAAUaSx9TJkw3XmEsldEQTuiajjlhuPE-pqkqsb

Mark iand Hachi (his dog) is in my basement bedroom. We are all working together to get the mess cleaned up. Difficult at best working with a broken set of sockets and wrenches. I'll be doing videos soon and posting more to YouTube and Tiktok.

Turbo check Try pulling and pushing the shaft like an old-school headlight switch. Any movement is an instant fail! It's possible for oil to be leaking because the shaft is moving. Then, if you can move the compressor wheel like a joystick, and the wheel should never touch the housing, this is a fail also. Turbine housing can be clocked by the four bolts and loosened, removed, and clocked correctly for your application. Then the compressor might have a large snap ring; you can release the compressor housing and clock accordingly.