Oil & Fuel Boomer with LS Mtron premature turbo failure in cold weather

[RustyA]

Had three loads of gravel delivered for our road this week. After about 8 hours grading leveling and compacting all is working good. Tractor seems quieter and has more power on grades with a blade full of gravel. Dealer was superb and I'm very pleased.

 

[RustyA]

Update to this story...Saturday 5/2/20 was helping a neighbor improve her driveway and install new gravel. F08-S27 code flashing...EGR position fault again at 76 hours. Disconnected battery hoping it would clear the code. Tractor went into regen for over 5 hours of operation above 2000 rpm and never completed cleaning. Assume that's due to it referencing the EGR for exhaust backpressure. Then reduced rpms to 1400 and I limped it back to the house. Dealer coming to repair onsite or drag it back to the hospital for the third time I'll keep you posted on the repair results...so far I'm pretty EPA'd out right now. Wish I had my old reliable tractor back.

 

[RustyA]

Tech confirmed EGR out of range, sending a rollback to pick it up for repairs. I'll keep you posted...

 

[fried1765]

Tech confirmed EGR out of range, sending a rollback to pick it up for repairs. I'll keep you posted...

This old guy says: Anti pollution chit for tractors is garbage!
Trouble today,...or trouble tomorrow, ....but trouble, it will ALWAYS be!!

 

[RustyA]

Dealer confirmed bad EGR position sensor which is part of the EGR valve. Parts on order, hopefully third time is charm for this repair.

 

[thclimer]

Dealer confirmed bad EGR position sensor which is part of the EGR valve. Parts on order, hopefully third time is charm for this repair.

I sure hope so, it must be very frustrating.

 

[PCABE5]

Let's hope that's the last of these issues.

 

[RustyA]

Dealer brought tractor back with new (third) EGR valve in 86 hours total on tractor. Hopefully we are good to go for a long time now. I love the tractor but it's just not been reliable since new.

 

[RustyA]

Hopefully the final update. Worked tractor last Sunday for 7 hours spreading, leveling and compacting very long driveway. Performed flawlessly just like it should. Hopefully it's just an unlucky EGR and we are good to go for a while. Bumper to bumper warranty ended the day after the failure, still 3 years left on the federal pollution warranty and 4 years left on Boomer powertrain warranty. I love the tractor when it's working correctly and the dealer has taken excellent care of me and it...My old John Deere 1070 never went back to the dealer in 20 years of hard labor, this one so far has made three trips on the rollback in 86 hours of easy use of plowing snow and grading roads

 

[rodneyn]

What oil weight did you finally settle on for use all year long. Since I read your issues I have been using 0w-20.i have placards all over my LS telling me to let turbo cool down after use. Also have no throttle control in extremely cold weather for 30-45 seconds on start up.