Recent content by ziggywiggy

Hi all, just wondering if I知 on the right track with solving this new issue with my tractor, I was using my yanmar 1500 to do some brush hogging and it was losing power, running hotter than usual, and something sounded off and clunky so I turned it off and opened it up and white smoke was...

So, I have a yanmar 1500 and it will not start. No click, not even trying when I turn the key. I have the decompressor down and in full throttle just absolutely no response. We tried giving the battery a jump, it clicked once then nothing. So now we have battery on a charger but if this...

What happens if you cold start without using the decompression? I did this accidentally and the motor seemed to start right up and then there was a lot of white smoke from the crank case exhaust. I'm trying to figure out if it was just because I started it wrong or something else is amiss. It...

Does anyone use the quick detach clutch, is it supposed to be flush to the back of the pto? Greased up pto and clutch really well, but there's still an inch of space. I just want to make sure that it's attached correctly.

I've got a new to me yanmar 1500 that I've had for about a month and have just noticed while driving it around that oil was leaking from somewhere onto the steering gearbox. I thought initially that it was diesel fuel leaking somehow until I looked under the dash and noticed a hole in the...