Dawg52
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Drove from Santa Fe to Colorado Springs today. Got in some hiking this afternoon at Cheyenne Nat'l Park. Just enough to work up a sweat. Drinking a cold one right now.
I have not encountered this gel/slime buildup in the coolant problem before, so am wondering what happens when the stuff is heated to operating temperature? Does it liquefy and therefore present no real problem?
One of the retirement goals was to do more musical performing. Church organist is recovering from shoulder replacement, so I filled in with a couple of flute pieces and sang tenor in an old-timey vocal duet with friends. Great fun.
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Sorry you are going through such a hassle with your rider mower!Mowed the yard the other day and the muffler on the riding mower broke where the exhaust pipe from the engine block connects to it. Had to finish with the push mower, but that gave me a good workout. Went to the local Toro service dealer and was told "she extended her vacation by a week" (should cross-post to the Pet Peeve of the Day thread). Told them I would order on Amazon, which I did. I try to support local businesses, but sometimes it's hard. But the manufacturer doesn't guarantee this failure mode won't happen again, and blames it on poor installation techniques. The Intertubes blames it on faulty design. But the only other choice is a whole new mower.
Read online that this is a common problem with this engine so I feel lucky it lasted ten years. People complain that the bolts holding the exhaust pipe on tend to seize, so I loosened them today to verify I didn't need to deal with that problem, too. Now I'm waiting for the part to arrive, which will be at least a week.
It doesn’t appear to. I’ve had it up to temp and taken the cap off as soon as I could. The coolant is still pretty hot and the slime seems pretty much unaffected. Interesting enough, I lost power (right now) and ran it for a couple hours. It doesn’t over heat. Maybe it’s just not bad enough to cause trouble. That means maybe I’ll just put some fresh coolant in it (been running water since the flushes) and call it good. Maybe the slime will break down over time with clean coolant and periodic heat from running it. Still going to get someone out here, but very reluctant to spend significant money to correct this, especially if it’s not causing over heating.
Oh, the question was asked about how big the unit is. It’s 25kw (25 thousand watts).
I am so lucky to be able to afford a lawn guy due to an overfunded retirement; I do appreciate the luxuries it has allowed.
Of course water and detergent is safe to experiment with.25kw, now thats a generator.
When I worked on Diesel engines we would add Cascade dishwasher detergent into the coolant system run engine for an hour or two, flush with fresh water, repeat 2 or 3 times as needed. Gelled coolant or oil contamination, never failed to work.
Once you get the Peltier devices that fit into the original mounting spot, the rest is easy. If you know the power requirement of the Peltier TEC, you can get generic switching DC supplies to drive them.
25kw, now thats a generator.
When I worked on Diesel engines we would add Cascade dishwasher detergent into the coolant system run engine for an hour or two, flush with fresh water, repeat 2 or 3 times as needed. Gelled coolant or oil contamination, never failed to work.
A simple compression test should tell you one way or the other............. They both think with a high degree of certainty that this is a head gasket or worse, some type of head or cylinder problem...........
Hmmm, my motor home has more than that (8kW). I just did a quick check using Generac's online estimator, and they suggest 16kW for my house.Generally unless you run a large air conditioner or a business, 7500 watts or less will do the job.
You probably have two AC units on the motor home. Without the AC load, you could probably run it with a little 2000 watt inverter generator.Hmmm, my motor home has more than that (8kW). I just did a quick check using Generac's online estimator, and they suggest 16kW for my house.