FarmerBlair
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I posted recently about a 1968 Ford 3500 diesel backhoe tractor that I just bought.
As background: I changed all the fluids and filters and found it would not run as well as before doing all that. There is loss of power and black smoke when giving mid to full throttle. I also see blue smoke which wasn't there before.
My question for this post: I recently had it running at a fast idle and it was blowing quite a bit blue smoke out the exhaust. It has been doing this since I changed all the fluids a couple weeks ago. Anyway, this time it had been running for about 30-40 minutes so it was warm. I shut down the engine to do something unrelated to the engine. About 5-10 minutes later I restarted the engine and this time there was no blue smoke at all! I hadn't touched anything including the throttle. Any ideas why there was lots of blue smoke, but when I shut it down and restarted it, there was no longer any blue smoke? Was something stuck? I throttled it up and down and exhaust was clear of blue smoke, though it still had the problem with power loss at high throttle. Thanks!
As background: I changed all the fluids and filters and found it would not run as well as before doing all that. There is loss of power and black smoke when giving mid to full throttle. I also see blue smoke which wasn't there before.
My question for this post: I recently had it running at a fast idle and it was blowing quite a bit blue smoke out the exhaust. It has been doing this since I changed all the fluids a couple weeks ago. Anyway, this time it had been running for about 30-40 minutes so it was warm. I shut down the engine to do something unrelated to the engine. About 5-10 minutes later I restarted the engine and this time there was no blue smoke at all! I hadn't touched anything including the throttle. Any ideas why there was lots of blue smoke, but when I shut it down and restarted it, there was no longer any blue smoke? Was something stuck? I throttled it up and down and exhaust was clear of blue smoke, though it still had the problem with power loss at high throttle. Thanks!
