The engine is down on power so you could be right there may be turbo issues, we are going to check the boost under load.The one saturating everything by the road draught hose, that might just be the crankcase vent filter. Other things can cause “carryover” as well that can be miner. I wonder if the turbo has issues. That can cause high crankcase pressure. And if that ones an EGR motor, then there’s higher pressures everywhere.
Lol, our department has lots of money it seems for repairs, but very little to replace a machine, even if the repair bills surpass the cost of a new one, this is how it seems to work, so they will just keep running and repairing this machine.Would it really have been so bad if it just put itself out of its misery though?
I wonder if the newer ones are any less headache though. Truckers here just keep rebuilding the older trucks and a lot of days I wish we could just rewind pre 07 graders affordably.Lol, our department has lots of money it seems for repairs, but very little to replace a machine, even if the repair bills surpass the cost of a new one, this is how it seems to work, so they will just keep running and repairing this machine.
We have a couple of 2015 and 2016-17's, the 15 lost a engine, the 2016-17 we are on engine#3, we have a 2018 12m3 that has been trouble free so far, alot of the pulp contractors here were buying glider kits for trucks to keep away from emissions but the Government has clamped down on glider kits now, what I have seen and experienced with m series graders sense 2008 when the M's came out, the only option now for a contractor would be to lease a grader from Cat, if you bought a new or used m series Cat grader to do a job you would risk going bankrupt with repairs and down time, I love Cat products but that's my honest opinion on the M's, the new 120's with the next generation cab and levers is one nice looking machine with lots of neat and well thought out upgrades, I hope the next generation cab migrates to the new 140's soon.
As far as I know, any 2019- 2020 has to be tier 4 emissions, so its pointless to buy a glider kit now, alot look for older trucks now with minimum emissions junk and rebuild them.NS is cracking down on gliders? Man I'm glad I live out west lol.
Spec is 21.2psi @ 1200RPM, 23.9psi @ 2000 RPM - both of them when the engine is running loaded.We checked the boost using the onboard gauge on our 2008 M and its showing 20psi on a hard pull, so i'm not sure if that's where it should be, but the engine seems down on power for a new oil burning reman, we were getting ready to go do some ditching with this machine on Monday, backing it out of the shop and the alternator went, LOL. got to love the M's