Diesel in winter

[aczlan]

Will do. It is moveable. The power is weak at the high RPMs. Critters love to nest in my equipment so I will check out the filter and ducts. The temp seems normal. The heaviest of smoke is at the high RPMs and it is HEAVY!

Check and make sure the air cleaner isn't frozen up.

Aaron Z

 

[nyone]

Black smoke is to much fuel. This could be a stuck injector or a clogged air intake/filter. If it has a turbo does it spin?

 

[ovrszd]

Check and make sure the air cleaner isn't frozen up.

Aaron Z

Or home to a dozen mice.

 

[ovrszd]

I enjoyed the video. I thought the selection of products was excellent.

No surprise to me that 911 had very little lubricity and was very flammable.

 

[PILOON]

Check and make sure the air cleaner isn't frozen up.

Aaron Z

YES, a possibility, friend had a TN60 that always aspired snow and caused that sort of symptom.
Also (if you mowed) the intake filter might be virtually clogged by dust/hay etc.

I'd suspect that for winter/snow duties an intake filter could possibly even be removed if snow clogging proved to be a problem.

 

[ovrszd]

I'd suspect that for winter/snow duties an intake filter could possibly even be removed if snow clogging proved to be a problem.

Not sure I'd recommend that. So where would the snow go that is sucked into the filter compartment??

 

[LouNY]

YES, a possibility, friend had a TN60 that always aspired snow and caused that sort of symptom.
Also (if you mowed) the intake filter might be virtually clogged by dust/hay etc.

I'd suspect that for winter/snow duties an intake filter could possibly even be removed if snow clogging proved to be a problem.

Definitely not, will fill with snow melt run to a low spot then either suck into the engine or refreeze and completely block the air flow

 

[PILOON]

Definitely not, will fill with snow melt run to a low spot then either suck into the engine or refreeze and completely block the air flow

OK, I'll bow to that opinion.
Bur how about some sort of deflector to avoid snow ingestion? make sense? or a 'pre screen'?

 

[hugho]

Here in Wyoming we were hit by -8 and -9 nights in October which made a lot of diesel owners unhappy. Winter diesel was supposed to be imported by Nov 1 but we imported an Alberta Clipper instead. Our manager at the local Sinclair said 14 degrees was the temp that wax forms with #2 summer diesel. Everyone here with winter experience use Power Service white for antigel and use their mix which is 25% #1 if memory serves. They also sell #1 which is jet fuel so you can do your own ratio if it gets deeply subzero. Plugging in the truck on super cold nights is the rule also. I have a friend with 2 separate tanks and he has #1 in one tank and Winterized fuel in the other. He uses the kerosene tank if the temps are colder than -20. If we get colder than -30 I drive our Tahoe!

 

[Industrial Toys]

Going out to refuel my GMC and Mule from dyed and non dyed tanks today. I will take samples (for the first time) of each in those tiny liquor bottles, put them in the -18c freezer and see how the fuel behaves.