I’m sick to my stomach. I just heard back from Jay’s Garage that the BioBeast was 8 quarts low on oil (it takes 15). So, either eight quarts leaked/burned on our road trip, or the nameless Oil Can place where I got the oil changed last week before our trip totally effed up and left out half the oil. Jay’s is currently looking for evidence of leaking or burning oil to answer that question.
Either way, that explains the loss of power. The diesel injectors in the ‘98 PowerStroke are actuated by oil pressure. With the oil level so low, there wasn’t enough pressure to inject diesel into the cylinders. I can only hope that other permanent damage wasn’t done. I’ll hear more from Jay’s in the morning.
