Hi all,
I've recently bought a B6000 and have some questions. It has a center drive tiller on it that I replaced all the tines on (except the ones towards the center on the collars that stand higher than the main tiller shafts). I've been doing a little reading here, and after dumping the oil last night, I have a few questions.
The oil was overfull - I dumped almost a whole gallon out of it last night. I think there was a fair amount of diesel fuel in there. Is this indicative of some catastrophic problem in my near future? I have no idea how long the oil had been in there before I got it. There were some metal shavings on the magnetic drain plug when I pulled it...
The second thing is that per casting on the oil fill cap, it said 2 liters of 30W for this time of year, or 10@-30 for the cold winters. I put the correct amount of 10-30w that I was going to let idle and warm up for a flush, then dump it and put in straight 30W (I've read more here since, and will be using 15W-40 diesel oil!). Anyway, I started it and after about a minute there was a brand new metallic noise I wasn't familiar with that sounded like it was coming from the starter area... shut it down right away.
Any thoughts on what this might be? Is it just a new noise that is normal and I haven't heard it before due to the really over-full crankcase? I have a hard time believing that the 10W-30 wasn't providing enough lubrication during no-load idling... I've known this thing to be running for hours on end at full throttle doing tiller work with an over-full crankcase full of dirty diluted oil. Is there a motor job in my near future? Or do I just overfill the crankcase again with clean oil and go back to work?
Hans
I've recently bought a B6000 and have some questions. It has a center drive tiller on it that I replaced all the tines on (except the ones towards the center on the collars that stand higher than the main tiller shafts). I've been doing a little reading here, and after dumping the oil last night, I have a few questions.
The oil was overfull - I dumped almost a whole gallon out of it last night. I think there was a fair amount of diesel fuel in there. Is this indicative of some catastrophic problem in my near future? I have no idea how long the oil had been in there before I got it. There were some metal shavings on the magnetic drain plug when I pulled it...
The second thing is that per casting on the oil fill cap, it said 2 liters of 30W for this time of year, or 10@-30 for the cold winters. I put the correct amount of 10-30w that I was going to let idle and warm up for a flush, then dump it and put in straight 30W (I've read more here since, and will be using 15W-40 diesel oil!). Anyway, I started it and after about a minute there was a brand new metallic noise I wasn't familiar with that sounded like it was coming from the starter area... shut it down right away.
Any thoughts on what this might be? Is it just a new noise that is normal and I haven't heard it before due to the really over-full crankcase? I have a hard time believing that the 10W-30 wasn't providing enough lubrication during no-load idling... I've known this thing to be running for hours on end at full throttle doing tiller work with an over-full crankcase full of dirty diluted oil. Is there a motor job in my near future? Or do I just overfill the crankcase again with clean oil and go back to work?
Hans