thartweger
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- Nov 28, 2008
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I just acquired one of these that supposedly has had injectors replaced last year as well as injector pump. I get down to starting it on Wednesday after acquiring it and it fired no problem, mind you it had been running earlier and it was warm out. I had run it at that night, and it was dark so if it was smoking alot then I could have missed it, but it ran and pulled great. Only problem I did have was the lights were really dim when I got home finally, and had been dim while cutting too, assuming its battery related. The next morning not so good. The starter, which is also supposedly new, was also sticking last night which caused me to have to get a jump Each time here at night and morning when the starter was sticking and it ran the batterys down very quickly. It has also been in the low 30s late 20s here temperature wise so thats not good on a weak battery anyways. Thursday morning brought with it not only the starter issues again and the battery problem, it billowed a ton of white smoke again prior to starting, then blew off as it warmed up. Now I guess that really isnt a huge problem, smoking like that initially but Ive also read its not normal. Either way, we had to spray ether into it even before it would even turn over. I ran it that day all day until 5pm, and didnt really notice anything that wasnt normal with it, I also had Lucas diesel treatment in it as well so I dont know if that might have prevented the inevitable blue smoke. Now getting down to the point I started it today, after putting a 3rd 5 gallon jug of diesel in and after its initial white puffs and warming up, it didnt blow off the smoke. It just kept smoking and was starting to have a blue hue. When you bring it from and idle to max rpm, it will puff a bit of black smoke but will primarily be blueish hue. Now I used this Wed night and Thursday 8 to 5 So all in all I have put over 10 hours on it and it doesn't seem to have used any oil. Now I am getting back with the guy I got it from and hes all pisesed off at me now saying I am too hard to deal with and thats just what diesels do and getting nowhere. He claimed prior to this it used no oil and I havent seen any oil be used. What could be my problem here.. Could it be too much diesel being injected and all of it not getting combusted? I did notice sometihng which I think is the injector pump, a line, that wasnt attached to anything on pointing down. I need to get some pictures I guess of that for anyone to be sure as to what I am talking about, but maybe some light can be shed on what I have brought up about the blueish smoke. I had read something about a bypass line going back into the tank that could cause it? Or maybe my idea on the smoke might be right? Could the Lucas diesel treatment even prevented it from smoking like this? I dont know. Any help is appreciated, sorry about the length of the post and hope I didnt ramble on too much. Thanks a ton.
