Posted by the tractor vet on September 30, 2008 at 04:50:46 from (99.167.208.219):
In Reply to: 400 Diesel posted by DaleSelf on September 29, 2008 at 18:49:58:
Let me add a little to this . As i have run the old I H diesels for many years in both ag and ind. Whe starting first thing in the morning allow a good warm up period at least a couple min. to get it good and warmed up on the gas side , you will know when it is warm enough as the engine RPM will start coming up on its owen . make the switch by opening the throttle a couple notches and move the switch over lever to the run side . and allow some time to warm up on the diesel side . Ya can work the snot out of them all day long BUT never Stall them HOT . If ya do and this does happen ya had best make sure that there is GAS in the starting tank to make a FAST restart as cylinder temps start to go up and this can lead to cracking of blocks and heads . When shutting down Allow more then just a couple min. for cool down i have always allowed it to idle till the temp gauge is down in the cold area . At idle a diesel will cool down not like a gas engine . On my old 450D after a day of working here plowing sometimes it would take up to 20 min. to bring the temp down to the cold mark and never shut down on gas as this starts to bring the temp back up in the combustion chambers. So after ya get it started in the morning always renenber to refill the starting tank with gas .And by the way my old 450D is still out there running at a farm about 18 miles from here .
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