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Michigan 55 lll Questions

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09-19-2005 04:10:45




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Brought home a Clark Michigan 55lll- seems to be among the first Clarks.. with 371 Detroit to play with. Been setting 10 years. With a shot of starting fluid with throttle to the floor she will start & fast idle/won't rev up. Obviously the first step is to drain fuel & change the filter... The questions- There are 2 factory stickers on the dash. I suspect they are on all machines & may or may not apply.. 1st is the standard warning about letting it idle 3 minutes before shutdown to cool the turbo. I'm not real sharp with a Detroit but I see no turbo. 2nd sticker says to start the machine you pump up the diesel pressure & you may have to continue pumping until the engine warms up. That confuses me... Maybe that is a part of my problem. I see a knob with a cable behind the seat that runs down to the left side of the engine mid height to the block. Knob pulled it seems to trip something...a kill knob of some kind? It needs to be reset at the end point by hand once pulled.. Then on the right side top of the block is the remnants of a cable going to something to do with the fuel. If I work that back & forth by hand I feel no resistance ( it's not in the air intake/not a choke type diesel shutdown ) & I have no idea what that does. Anybody have one of these little Detroit loaders or any Detroit wiz's out there that can help me out. One more symptom.. The radiator is still full of anti-freeze. Machine was said to be operating fine when parked. When runing she alternately blows white to blue smoke. One fellow suggested that was a sign of fuel system sucking air.. Any ideas on that? THANKS!!!

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