question on starting BX2200

Anonymous Poster · Mar 17, 2003

Kevin

No idea why I said the manual suggested a 30-minute warm up. Should have said 5 minutes. Sorry for the miss-quote.

It does say to warm-up at 50% of rated RPM. I assume that would equate to half throttle.

John

frank_f15 · Mar 18, 2003

i do beleive u have a problem, the tractor should not stall once let alone 3 or 4 times. in the coldest weather, 5 or 10 deg. i give my 2400 about 20 sec. with glow plugs, she fires right up, one puff of smoke then just runs fine, with no smoke. i would check with the dealer.

Anonymous Poster · Mar 18, 2003

well the half throttle thing is a joke. I would never do that. Mine starts up after warming the glows for 3 seconds. The black smoke thing is because of the half throttle. Since your motor is half way accelerated it has to start up and speed up really fast so that means more work on the motor so more exaust. ever seen a school bus (diesel) that has to accelerate fast or what not? well it dumps a lot of smoke also. Just a thing diesels do.

Anonymous Poster · Mar 18, 2003

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Well, it's back at the dealers today /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif. In my quest to learn all about the tractor I found that there was not enough oil in the front axle to even wet the dip stick and the coolant level was just barely enough to show in the bottom of the recovery tank. When I asked about these items Monday the salesman became upset that the tractor wasn't properly prepped and insisted that it be picked up and gone over. I expect that if there is something wrong they will find it and take care of it while it's there.

thcri · Mar 18, 2003

I have experienced some of the same things with my New Holland. They do say in their manual to pull the throttle a 1/3 of the way on start up. I do ignore that, I leave it at idle. But I did find in the colder weather that I do have to run the glow plugs a bit longer. I will run them at least 15 seconds to 20 seconds. When doing this I very seldom get any smoke and I don't ever get any stahls anymore.

Different motor, but diesel same theory I guess. On the farm we always got black smoke out of the diesels on colder days. We use to have a John Deere 4430 that would literaly pound and puff out black smoke for five minutes. You didn't dare try moving that tractor or messing with the throttle during that time. It always came out of it. But the black smoke would fill the machine shed up so you couldn't see two feet in front of you.

murph

Anonymous Poster · Mar 19, 2003

Mine is exactly the same way. I've found that if I continue to crank the engine after it first pops off it seems to catch and never stall. This has only been an issue in the cold weather for me.

frank_f15 · Mar 19, 2003

what i do , is before i shut the tractor off i set the throttle at 1200 rpm(not to fast, not to slow) then when i start it is always at the right rpm, more important in cold weather. this seems to work for me.