Hi,
I believe the previous owner hydrolocked it and bent a rod, the exhaust smells a little like fuel, not like cool diesel, but maybe hot diesel...?
It takes one cylinder a few revolutions before it fires and we loose the blue smoke.
When I first acquired it I did a compression test, all three cylinders were within 10psi of each other, I flushed the radiator and put some seafoam in the oil and fuel to clean things up.
I managed to remove a previously sealed head crack (there was copper stop leak in the radiator so figured I had a head issue) and threw a new head on it and it has run for the last 2 years just fine. There is no noticeable difference between the 3 b7100's that I use, just the smelly exhaust.
I remember looking at the injectors while I had them hooked up to the pump and saw a good spray from each.
If I pull the head and check the pistons and find which one is low, can I pull the pan and remove rod and piston, and swap the rod with another form a parts engine?
I will mic the wrist pin and crankshaft to make sure the tolerances are good, and look at the cylinder wall.
anything else I need to worry about?
Should I use new bearings on the rod or the current bearings or keep the bearings from the swapped rod if they fit?
Ken
Piston wont change , just need to keep correct orentatin
I believe the previous owner hydrolocked it and bent a rod, the exhaust smells a little like fuel, not like cool diesel, but maybe hot diesel...?
It takes one cylinder a few revolutions before it fires and we loose the blue smoke.
When I first acquired it I did a compression test, all three cylinders were within 10psi of each other, I flushed the radiator and put some seafoam in the oil and fuel to clean things up.
I managed to remove a previously sealed head crack (there was copper stop leak in the radiator so figured I had a head issue) and threw a new head on it and it has run for the last 2 years just fine. There is no noticeable difference between the 3 b7100's that I use, just the smelly exhaust.
I remember looking at the injectors while I had them hooked up to the pump and saw a good spray from each.
If I pull the head and check the pistons and find which one is low, can I pull the pan and remove rod and piston, and swap the rod with another form a parts engine?
I will mic the wrist pin and crankshaft to make sure the tolerances are good, and look at the cylinder wall.
anything else I need to worry about?
Should I use new bearings on the rod or the current bearings or keep the bearings from the swapped rod if they fit?
Ken
Piston wont change , just need to keep correct orentatin
