My Fellow Gearheads,
HELP !! My Orange Angry Dragon is sick and need some experience suggestions. Here is the run down of symptoms to wrap your heads around.
The loss of power symptoms started happening last summer after taking the tractor to my property at 8700 ft elevation (Colorado), but doesn’t have any symptom of power loss at 5700ft elevation at the Dealer. The problem only exists at the higher rpm range, especially under any sort of load.
Now, Before we all jump on the ITS THE ELEVATION BANDWAGON, (which is what I originally thought as well), let’s hold hands and walk through my Pissed Off $$$$ moments together. I summoned the brain stormers at S2T Performance for some insight and 6 months later on about a Valentine's Day, a new baby turbo kit was dropped off on my door step, (Future posts on that turbo kit install coming in the near future). The turbo kit works awesome BUT I still have the same power loss, surging and blue smoking, just with much more power now.
First visit at the dealer, they verified the fuel tank and fuel lines were clear. They then removed a shim under the diesel injector pump to advance the timing due the elevation, which made no difference, maybe actually made the symptoms worse. I have adjusted the fuel psi up and down, no difference in symptoms. At this point I’m down to only a few items: 1. Fuel pump? 2. Injector Pump? (Very pricy). 3. Injectors? (pricey).
What’s Your thoughts Fellow Gearheads?
HELP !! My Orange Angry Dragon is sick and need some experience suggestions. Here is the run down of symptoms to wrap your heads around.
The loss of power symptoms started happening last summer after taking the tractor to my property at 8700 ft elevation (Colorado), but doesn’t have any symptom of power loss at 5700ft elevation at the Dealer. The problem only exists at the higher rpm range, especially under any sort of load.
Now, Before we all jump on the ITS THE ELEVATION BANDWAGON, (which is what I originally thought as well), let’s hold hands and walk through my Pissed Off $$$$ moments together. I summoned the brain stormers at S2T Performance for some insight and 6 months later on about a Valentine's Day, a new baby turbo kit was dropped off on my door step, (Future posts on that turbo kit install coming in the near future). The turbo kit works awesome BUT I still have the same power loss, surging and blue smoking, just with much more power now.
First visit at the dealer, they verified the fuel tank and fuel lines were clear. They then removed a shim under the diesel injector pump to advance the timing due the elevation, which made no difference, maybe actually made the symptoms worse. I have adjusted the fuel psi up and down, no difference in symptoms. At this point I’m down to only a few items: 1. Fuel pump? 2. Injector Pump? (Very pricy). 3. Injectors? (pricey).
What’s Your thoughts Fellow Gearheads?
