TS24 8V-71 Help required
Posted: Thu May 04, 2017 10:00 pm
Hi folks; I have just got back from Andrew Beaulah's as I have been carrying out some more resto work on my 580BT, Tim Brown has been helping Andrew get his Terex TS24 scraper into some sort of working order. The other day he went to dip the engine oil on the rear motor and found that the oil was full of diesel.
The engine is the Detroit V8-71 Series; these engines are similar to Cummins in that they use a third rocker lever to actuate the fuel injector so the fuel passes through the cylinder heads; the issue is that when the two rocker covers were removed and the engine was run, you could not see any visible evidence of diesel leaking into the oil?
The only thing we could pick up on was that the oil from the rocker levers splashed a bit more on the engines one bank of cylinders but there was as said above no easy visible sight of an internal fuel leak. Tim has already had the fuel pump off the machine and has checked it, there is no issue with it so any advice would be helpful.
Jeremy
The engine is the Detroit V8-71 Series; these engines are similar to Cummins in that they use a third rocker lever to actuate the fuel injector so the fuel passes through the cylinder heads; the issue is that when the two rocker covers were removed and the engine was run, you could not see any visible evidence of diesel leaking into the oil?
The only thing we could pick up on was that the oil from the rocker levers splashed a bit more on the engines one bank of cylinders but there was as said above no easy visible sight of an internal fuel leak. Tim has already had the fuel pump off the machine and has checked it, there is no issue with it so any advice would be helpful.
Jeremy