Dmacleo
Veteran Member
- Joined
- Sep 11, 2020
- Messages
- 1,538
- Location
- Etna, Maine
- Tractor
- 2010 MF GC2400 Owner, 2012 MF1532 User
Yeah a pressure test takes moments to do and is a real useful diagnostic test.
Dry. I had just cleaned it out via air pressure recently.What airfilter was installed on that tractor ?
A drie airfilter or a oilbath ?
If you overfill an oilbath just a little bit it will suck it into the engine.
Ours put out a royal blue cloud. Looked like we were creating a thunderstorm. Every time we stopped to tie a bale and dump it. Cure is to put motor oil in your diesel fuel.No, lube oil in a diesel, if burned, puts out some really black smoke, not blueish.
No distinct puffs. It ran the entire time like nothing ever happened. I did throttle down to idle AND up to higher than normal operating rpm during the smoking and could see no change. No missing, no stumble, no change in the smoking.
No. No change in power output.
Not sure about fumes but EGR systems on a VW diesel can put lube oil in the intake and the result is black smoke out the rear -- big time!
No apparent engine oil usage. Checked it after this incident and had checked it a month ago. Right at the full mark, no change.
Amen to that ! Tell me about it! I had a VW diesel start sucking engine oil from the crankcase due to excessive blowby in it's old age. It fogged the entire highway with sooty black smoke for 1/4 mile until I finally figured out what was happening. Key would not shut it down of course and I had to put it in high gear and use the brakes to stall the engine. Thank goodness it was a stick and not automatic! That happens you will never forget it. Using air intake blockage is about the ONLY solution if it had been an automatic. And that never occurred to me so I would have lost the engine if it had been automatic.
First, the phrase you quoted from me "...lube oil in a diesel, if burned, puts out some really black smoke, not blueish." was my mistake. That was based on experience using a diesel VW which had so much blowby that it began to ingest and burn it's own lubricating oil from the crankcase -- and that DOES put out the blackest of black clouds. However I now realize that clean lube oil in the combustion process in tiny amounts does produce bluish smoke. OK, that mistake of mine corrected ...Ours put out a royal blue cloud. Looked like we were creating a thunderstorm. Every time we stopped to tie a bale and dump it. Cure is to put motor oil in your diesel fuel.