Thursday, Jan 08, 2004 at 02:30
You may not believe this but with the 2H engine you can get into problems by filling up the engine oil too fast. I always do my own oil changes, never a problem. After draining the old oil, changing the filter, etc. I have the measured quantity of oil ready in a container for refilling.
One day I was in a hurry and poured the new oil quite fast through a large funnel into the rocker cover filling spout. When all the oil was in I closed the cap and started the engine. She did half a turn and hydrauliced, the starter would not turn her over after that. I ended up undoing the glow plugs to get the engine to crank.
What a mess, oil everywhere under the bonnet. I could not figure out how the oil got into the cilynders and asked my mechanic. He worked it out, after much head scratching. Oil poured too fast into the rocker cavity overflows through the breather hose into the manifold, to be sucked into the engine.
Luckily, in my case the engine never fired and the starter lacked power to do any damage to the engine. She ran just fine after all the oil was ejected from the glow plug holes, smoked a fair bit for a while though.
So, take care when refilling engine oil on 2H diesel engines, it does not pay to do it in a hurry :-)
Klaus
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