I have a L245F.
When I check the oil level the oil is very thin and drips quickly off stick like diesel fuel. It also smells of diesel fuel to me. It exhausts white smoke on acceleration (fairly common I guess) and you can barely see thin foggy white smoke in right sunlight conditions at idle and you can tell how strong it smells when you catch a smell. Almost like its not burning up all the fuel. There is no sign of anything at blowby. I recently performed a compression check on all three cylinders and they were all high at 450, 445, and 460 psi.
Supposedly this tractor sat around outside for a pretty long period of time before I bought it. I know the tank had some water and trash in it before I cleaned it out and I changed the fuel filter so Im wondering if someone ran the motor with the excessive water and trash for long enough to cause some damage of some kind.
The motor sure sounds like it has a low end knock sound to it mostly at first start up but that could be just my hearing and maybe the cylinders getting over loaded and/or starved of fuel. Its getting harder to start as time goes on also. For the first time today it started to act like its missing (spit n sputter) a little at idle. I idled up a few seconds and it cleared up.
What should I check next, injectors, fuel pump, valve clearance ?
When I check the oil level the oil is very thin and drips quickly off stick like diesel fuel. It also smells of diesel fuel to me. It exhausts white smoke on acceleration (fairly common I guess) and you can barely see thin foggy white smoke in right sunlight conditions at idle and you can tell how strong it smells when you catch a smell. Almost like its not burning up all the fuel. There is no sign of anything at blowby. I recently performed a compression check on all three cylinders and they were all high at 450, 445, and 460 psi.
Supposedly this tractor sat around outside for a pretty long period of time before I bought it. I know the tank had some water and trash in it before I cleaned it out and I changed the fuel filter so Im wondering if someone ran the motor with the excessive water and trash for long enough to cause some damage of some kind.
The motor sure sounds like it has a low end knock sound to it mostly at first start up but that could be just my hearing and maybe the cylinders getting over loaded and/or starved of fuel. Its getting harder to start as time goes on also. For the first time today it started to act like its missing (spit n sputter) a little at idle. I idled up a few seconds and it cleared up.
What should I check next, injectors, fuel pump, valve clearance ?
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