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Got the injectors back from the shop...she is purring like a kitten. No smoke, sounds great. As for doing a total break down...I took a long hard look at those cylinders. Other than some normal discoloration for a machine with 450 hrs, they were perfect. They all came to exactly top dead center...

So I put the new head in. Getting a clanking noise, and possible miss fire. Hoping it is just a bad injector that may have gotten wrecked in that hydra-locked cylinder. If i do have to break then engine down, i guess it will be a good time to fix my hydraulic fluid leak from my main seal in the...

Did compression test, and as i thought. Good compression all cylinders except last one. Pulled intake manifold and made sure cylinder was top center so valves were closed and poured some more water into radiator. Water came out last glow plug hole and no where else. So i drained and pulled head...

Liquid in my block.

Flipped my L48. Motor did just the opposite of what I thought it would. Instead of shutting off, it went full throttle red line and blow huge black cloud. Throttle back, no help. Killed ignition, no help. Finally shut off fuel supply and shut down motor. Never occurred to me in my full blown...