Diesels and lawn mowers

mrhtbd

mrhtbd

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Can a guy get a break? Renaissance man my butt! Took my girls horse-back riding yesterday then up to Hawk Mountain Sanctuary to watch the migrating hawks and spend some outside time with them in the beautiful Fall weather (although it was 38 degrees and yours truly was in shorts, Ha)! Anyway on the way home (was driving the Benz Diesel with 59K on the odometer) the engine started knocking and white-blue smoke was coming out, wtf? The check-engine light didn't come on. Plenty of oil, plenty of water, don't get it. Put the tester on and a glow-plug fault came up. Strange as they were all replaced at 39K miles. Well got back in and knocked all the way home. Then this morning, I thought while the little one wanted to relax, I thought I'd get some personal time and mow the lawn. Just had the carb rebuilt 2 weeks ago. Finally got it started but the idle was really low and it barely cut. I got a little section done but it more bent the grass than cut it. Damn, my mind is set right, my body wants to go, but it just seems to be rough getting out of the starting gate these days! On a positive note, just finished cooking up some bullalo meat chile for the girls and I. The diesel and mower can wait, it's time to refuel then get to the park for some more fresh air. Hope I get that job so I can run with it!
 
Diesel motors are fickle bitches

Blue gray smoke is the death of that thing soon or a big expensive repair. Change all the filters drain that diesel and get some new number 1 diesel in that old girl because she is made not to run biodiesel like I bet you have been putting in her
 
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You probably need to add an additive now because it's close to geling up your diesel with those temps
 
If that model has an egr cooler like the truck diesels have that is the symptoms of one going bad on a truck
 
mrhtbd said:
Lol, no it has a Briggs n Stratton 500cc motor but just won't run at high RPM's. Just had the. carb rebuilt as well.
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fuel / air mixture could be too rich. There should be an adjustment screw on the carb.
 
A "301 code" popped up for the diesel, first cylinder miss-fire. A friend suggested the o-rings on the injector going. Makes sense as I just put in a new fuel line in June for the same cause. Evidently the newer diesel fuel makes the o-rings shrink. Maybe that's what happened to my gonads as well
 
yeah if it's a misfire maybe a deal went some where near the cylinder
 
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