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Technically it should work as stated, Just the "Secrete every day treatment" kind of sounds hokey to me. I will stick with something that has been tested in the real world for 68 years. For a genset really any of the additives should work as long as it is not something like Walmart house brand...
"but never experienced a diesel runaway firsthand"
Most people have never seen a runaway in person. A true runaway is when nothing short of blocking the air will shut it down. Anyone that has dealt with Detroit diesels has probably been in the situation. I had an old 671 Detroit run away on me...
With both the Seafoam and the XPD you said "According to the manufacturer". Think about that. That is marketing 101, convince the consumer it will do no harm at all. I am very suspicious of additives claiming to work wonders. I know Seafoam works in normal mixtures but it takes a long time. The...
Air in the lines would do just to opposite, It would stumble and stall. Black smoke indicates fuel but I have to wonder about that concoction you put in the tank. It has run enough of that through to clean it out so I would get rid of that and go with straight diesel. That stuff was a lot of...
A diesel will only run away due to extra fuel. This can be in the form of actual fuel or engine oil. Turbocharged engines have the problem a lot when the oil seals in the turbo go out and it feed unregulated motor oil into the engine. with a non turbo engine I guess it could happen from oil...
In addition to what Guy says about the loose bolts, if not torqued evenly that can also cause vibration. I have seen that several times on automotive flywheels. Bolts were tightened by hand an no torque wrench was used. Once I loosened all the bolts and torqued them in the proper sequence it was...
Where do you go to find the part by NSN? I have used a couple of the big time NSN suppliers but navigation their site is a chore and while it does give the specs for the parts they do not sell parts. They show the vendors that the military used but that is no help to someone that needs one piece.
Are you sure the CIM deletion is not your problem? These engines need input from sensors and output from computers to run in their stock form. If you want to eliminate the computer you will need to also bypass or retrofit all of the controls to manual operation.
Is it still blowing smoke out of the dipstick? Does that smoke smell like unburned fuel? A blown head gasket will only cause overheating if it blows into a coolant passage and even then it will over pressurize the coolant system very quickly and I have seen radiator caps literally blown off the...
Hell, I have been burned at every depot I have bought from. We all have, it is part of the deal with buying things at auction most of the time sight unseen. Even when you can see it you really don't know. And I go all the way back to the DRMO sale days.
I am not familiar with this engine but, in any engine and especially a diesel, white smoke from exhaust and dipstick usually means blown head gasket or cracked block/head. Loss of compression so fuel does not ignite and goes wherever the gasket blew. In this case it sounds like it blew into an...
Diesel "Mechanics" are getting to be a rare, and old, breed. The new crop are diesel "technicians", and they replace the parts that the scanner says are bad. Nobody seems to remember that with computers it is garbage in, garbage out. If that computer is not seeing correct signals due to...
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