Henri88
Platinum Member
Well, my girl is apparently very sick. 
Brought it over to my dealer yesterday to replace the tranny fan on the warranty and I mentioned to them about a few issues I been having lately. One of the issues was when the tractor was sitting for a day or so, it would start only on one or two cylinders for a few second before idling normal. During those few seconds it would smoke like a normal diesel starting in cold weather. I thought it was either a glow plug or a bad injector leaking. No lost of power that I've notice and it would run fine after that. The other issue that bug me was I could here a small ticking noise from the engine once in a while but would only last approx. 1 minute and would go away. And last but not least, I notice a small increase in my oil consumption, about a quart between my last oil change. First year no consumption second year half a quart and this year a full quart. I average about 100 hrs between oil change. So the mechanic had a look at it and the first thing he notice was the fuel filter being black. I had change it 3 month prior. He decided that it was best to look at the injectors and the glow plugs first, and to are surprise when he remove the air intake cover, the inside of the intake was covered with oil which indicate some major blow-by possibly cause by defective rings. Regret not having the camera with me. They will have to open it up and will have a better idea of the real cause. It has 300 hrs on the engine and the warranty was past due 3 months ago, but the service manager said not to worry, he would take care of it. :thumbsup: I'm keeping my fingers cross. I would like to pick your brain and tell me if you would know any other reason for the presence of oil in the air intake, also has any one seen this problem before on that particular Yanmar engine. I am now waiting for a call from my dealer with more info. and have all kind of time to kill. By the way, I have been doing the maintenance by the book with JD filters and Castrol GTX Diesel 15w40.
Brought it over to my dealer yesterday to replace the tranny fan on the warranty and I mentioned to them about a few issues I been having lately. One of the issues was when the tractor was sitting for a day or so, it would start only on one or two cylinders for a few second before idling normal. During those few seconds it would smoke like a normal diesel starting in cold weather. I thought it was either a glow plug or a bad injector leaking. No lost of power that I've notice and it would run fine after that. The other issue that bug me was I could here a small ticking noise from the engine once in a while but would only last approx. 1 minute and would go away. And last but not least, I notice a small increase in my oil consumption, about a quart between my last oil change. First year no consumption second year half a quart and this year a full quart. I average about 100 hrs between oil change. So the mechanic had a look at it and the first thing he notice was the fuel filter being black. I had change it 3 month prior. He decided that it was best to look at the injectors and the glow plugs first, and to are surprise when he remove the air intake cover, the inside of the intake was covered with oil which indicate some major blow-by possibly cause by defective rings. Regret not having the camera with me. They will have to open it up and will have a better idea of the real cause. It has 300 hrs on the engine and the warranty was past due 3 months ago, but the service manager said not to worry, he would take care of it. :thumbsup: I'm keeping my fingers cross. I would like to pick your brain and tell me if you would know any other reason for the presence of oil in the air intake, also has any one seen this problem before on that particular Yanmar engine. I am now waiting for a call from my dealer with more info. and have all kind of time to kill. By the way, I have been doing the maintenance by the book with JD filters and Castrol GTX Diesel 15w40.
