curious, anybody run into this?

You can stick a fiber optic camera down thru the throttle body and see if there is oil inside the intake on the bottom.
My 1500 5.9 runs great but is sucking oil thru the plemun gasket. When the weather warms up then I'll do the aluminum plenum plate modiflication.
I'll have to read up on that modification. How many miles are on your 5.9 and what year?