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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: 3 good tune-up tips for beginners, diesel (#1, 2, 3)
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Posted by Dieselman on June 05, 1999 at 17:14:52 from (209.64.118.196):
In Reply to: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: 3 good tune-up tips for beginners, diesel (#1, 2, 3) posted by greg on June 05, 1999 at 12:22:53:
Greg...........Best way to insure yourself from having to do a sleeve replacement before its time from pin holes that develop is install a water filter. Now for the most part it seems that only the turbo'd engines really need this. Most of the naturally aspirated never seem to have this problem. It's hard for me to explain how the pin holes develop because it's been so long since it was explained to me back at school. It works along the lines of electrolisis if you will and tiny little air bubbles bounce around in the block and *kiss* if you will the sleeve and enough times of that and soon metal starts to disappear. Seems the water filter will equalize the positive and negative out in the coolant system and you won't have the problem. I know it sounds cornball but that's somewhat how it was explained to me. At any rate the water filters seem to eliminate the pre-mature failures. Fuel additives: I personally never use them except in the winter time when I have a problem of gelling. Personal failure there on my part for not running a blend soon enough. I firmly believe just like IH and Cat's fuel caps say. "buy clean fuel, Keep it clean". That's probably your best bet. Most #1's and #2's are quality grade and have to pass certain requirements. As long as you don't run the bunker grade fuel's you should be alright. Hiway fuel or dyed won't make much of a difference on performance or stamina of an engine as far as life of it before repair's is concerned. Change your filters according to manufacturer's requirements or when you seem to be lacking power and the engine smokes significantly. That alone is a tell tale sign (provided the air cleaner isn't plugged!) At any rate asking my advice on fuel additives to preserve injector life is not going to be much help for you. It does bring up one story to be told. At the time of school I was working as a grease monkey at a gas station and a fellow that had logged several million miles on trucks hauling for a fleet used to tell me he mixed one quart of atf dextron with each tank of diesel. Approximately 100 gallons of diesel fuel. The atf is a high detergent oil and he strongly felt that it helped keep the fuel system cleaner and lubriced better for running. From what I had been told seems that his truck was the one that was only seen at the shop for reg maintenance such as oil changes and greasing and beyond that not much work done to it all. Then again it could all be bull. I told it to you like it was passed on to me. Diesel fuels in themselves do have a lubricating factor opposite of gas which is very dry. That's what helps in keeping the pumps moving parts lubed where the oil itself from the engine can't get to it for reasons that are obivious. As far as ford engines go which to some that don't know are nothing more than an international harvester engines, what is it your wanting to know? My experience with them as well is somewhat limited but I can tell you what I know if you tell me what you want to know. First though.......6.9 or 7.3 or powerstroke?? Respectively
Dieselman
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