Well it finally happened.My 4th parked regen at 280.1 hours resulted in a failure.As always the tractor runs great but after 3 tries this 4th regen will not complete and results in the warning indicator illuminating instead of completing.Personally I have no way to haul my tractor and the dealer can't pick it up any earlier than this coming Monday.The timing is bad as the rains are due and most of my work is done in a swamp.In spite of running at or near full throttle my regens have always been too frequent averaging roughly 7 hour intervals,often more frequently.The 3 successful parked regens,curiously occurred in very close to 70 hour intervals went off without a hitch.I bought the WSM soon after I bought the tractor but other than showing how the regeneration process is supposed to work,which doesn't correlate to my real life experiences,there is no trouble shooting section for DPF problems.When the warning light is illuminated I should be hearing the buzzer every 3 seconds or in the worst case 1 second intervals,however the buzzer is going off every 5 seconds.A note for the B3350 owners,you can't rely on what the manual says and there is a lot of bad,incorrect information out there,including the fallacy,or lie,that newer tractors use the same amount of fuel running the tractor wide open as they do at lower RPMs.This is flat out BS!I use roughly 25% more fuel at 2500 RPMs vs 2000.It could be more.Also,if you are bragging about how well your 3350 works with 50 or even 150 hours you may wish to refrain from this until you have some real hours on your tractor. I considered myself lucky compared to others who's tractors would not run at all,but at 280 hours the roof has finally fallen in.I am not posting this for advice,rather I felt that sharing my experiences and the outcome may prove useful to somebody.I will post again when I have something new to share.This may be interesting.
Bob
Bob