4,000 hours seems amazingly high to me. That last digit is tenths of an hour; are you sure you're not misreading and it is really in the 400 hour range? That would make more sense to me.
David On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 10:42 AM, RobAdkins <[email protected]>wrote: > > > thanks to all of you for chiming in on this subject. i now feel that my > engine is most likely just fine and lovely. many of you have stated the > hours accumulated on your engines of varying ages and i wanted to get an > opinion on the hours of mine. according to the hour meter it's in the 4000hr > range. which sounds like a ton compared to those of you with '84 M-18s as > well. what can i expect from an engine with this level of previous use? > thanks again-rob > > --- In [email protected] <IC27A%40yahoogroups.com>, "RobAdkins" > <robadk...@...> wrote: > > > > hi all, > > > > i was wondering what a healthy diesel engine sounds like. mine acts > healthy but sounds as if there's an extra high pitched tap-it noise akin to > the valves on an old small block 350 in need of adjustment. not knowing much > about diesels, i thought i'd query the community at large. is there a way to > upload a sound recording to the group's page? thanks -rob > > > > >
