Booth
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Help,
I have a B2150 with low hours that has always run faithfully. I performed a full service on it about a year ago including all new oils and filters.
I have not run it in about 6 weeks, I started it and let it idle for about 90 minutes while I was prepping the outside of my house for clearing the first snow of the winter. I went to start working and revved it up to about 2000 RPM and it would not go higher but I dismissed that as the throttle lever being too stiff to push farther (that is common on this machine). So I started to work and after about 1 minute it started to lose RPM under any load. Then after fiddling with the throttle lever I observed that it really would not go above 2000RPM whereas normally it will go to maybe 2900RPM. As I write this post I can hear it outside hunting around between 1000 and 1500 RPM. The only thing I can think of is that I did add some fuel oil that had been sitting for maybe 6 months. I was hunting around for some anti-gel/water absorbing additive but I seem to be out. I am headed out right now to buy some more fuel additive and see if that helps. But I would appreciate any advice I could get. I am pretty handy, but I am no diesel mechanic.
Thanks,
Jeff Booth
I have a B2150 with low hours that has always run faithfully. I performed a full service on it about a year ago including all new oils and filters.
I have not run it in about 6 weeks, I started it and let it idle for about 90 minutes while I was prepping the outside of my house for clearing the first snow of the winter. I went to start working and revved it up to about 2000 RPM and it would not go higher but I dismissed that as the throttle lever being too stiff to push farther (that is common on this machine). So I started to work and after about 1 minute it started to lose RPM under any load. Then after fiddling with the throttle lever I observed that it really would not go above 2000RPM whereas normally it will go to maybe 2900RPM. As I write this post I can hear it outside hunting around between 1000 and 1500 RPM. The only thing I can think of is that I did add some fuel oil that had been sitting for maybe 6 months. I was hunting around for some anti-gel/water absorbing additive but I seem to be out. I am headed out right now to buy some more fuel additive and see if that helps. But I would appreciate any advice I could get. I am pretty handy, but I am no diesel mechanic.
Thanks,
Jeff Booth