I opened up the engine and found it dropped a valve. The truck has 106k so it is low miles.
So I scored this lightly burnt 2000 7.3 from a friend. I pulled the heads and it is like new inside with 100k on it. I am swapping the cam to install a obs cam with fuel pump lobe and all new gaskets.
Could have robbed fuel pump, hpop reservoir, fuel lines, and bowl from the sd, and done e fuel SUPER cheap like I did. Then you wouldn't have to deal with a cam swap.
Started going back together with the forged rod super duty motor. The motor looked really good inside. The cam is swapped to one with the fuel pump lobe.