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[TNCRAWLER]

Ok were gettin close now. I need to know what kind of oil to use in the injector. It has a place to put it but I dont know what goes in there..Regular motor oil or somthing else..

Keep crawlin

[John Schwiebert]

You do not put oil in the injectors, you need to have oil in the injection pump and also the governor if You have a Hercules governor. Motor oil is fine.

[TNCRAWLER]

The pump is what I was talking about and thank you for your help..

keep crawlin

[cletracboy]

Don't use a detergent oil though! which a lot of diesel engine oils are, how much it matters with modern detergents I don't know but thats what it says in the book.

[Blake Malkamaki]

Yes... DO use a detergent oil in a diesel! Use the best oil you can find. Personally I would use 15W-40 if you use your tractor all year and don't use it enough to warrant changing it all the time. The book probably recommends using 30 weight in the summer and 10W in the winter. That is ok too. There may be some argument about using multi-viscosity oil, but I use it in all my other diesels with no problem.

But I would not use non-detergent oil in a diesel. Non-detergent may be the thing to use in an old gas engine full of crude - just so you don't loosen it all up at once.

Blake

[John Schwiebert]

Blake is correct, Use the best diesel oil you can find. Now for the injection pump and the governor. The key thing is to have oil in them. The pump will normally over fill and drip because of fuel leakage which is normal so it becomes very thin. That is the key reason it needs to be changed. On the governor and I should have used the word Timken, there is a bearing timken of course up and if it is starved for oil and yoou loose the shaft say your parayers you find one at a realistic price. Also should you have taken the pump off most of the model BD tractors are timed to number 6 compression stroke not number one.

[cletracboy]

I was talking about not using detergent oil in the fuel pump not the engine!  

but if its an old engine that  not been rebuilt there's a good argument for not using a detergent oil as they will flush out all the years of crap and move it around the engine.  Also when I used a 10-30 modern oil in mine the oil pressure droped after it had been running for a couple of hours, so I now use a straight 30 oil and it seemed to be ok.  Also I was told not to use any oil with EP (extreme pressure) aditives in the back end of a cletrac as it is not good for the brake linings.