well i was going threw my pictures last night and saw that when i rebuilt it i had to leave one piston out becuase i broke the rings. i ordered new rings from cummins with the same part number this is the pic with the missing piston. i will do a compression and leak down test on it saterday just for kicks. what i dont understand is why it smells like such strong diesel, i know if i pit the piston in backwards it would run worse and i know i would have cought it. maybe the rings from cummins dont match the rings from RF engine that i ordered

Your missing a piston...that might be part of the problem...:w2:

I bet that would do it.... :D

I would look at the timing. advance it a tad.

mine smoked pretty good when i first put my used motor in mine that hadnt run for awhile, but the timing was at 11 degrees. adjusted the timing to 16 and no more smoke. good luck with the search

Ah yes, but I believe that he doesnt have the proper tools to even check the pump timing. I think that may be part of the problem here - sometimes the redneck way doesnt work so well.

nonsense! If you cant fix it with a hammer... It's an electrical problem.

the timing is set at 16.5 had a local diesel shop set it. if it were timing then why is the #3 cylander running 60* colder then the rest of them? someone told me today that bacause the rings on the third piston are from a different place then the rest mabey they are differnet material and the 3rd hasnt seated yet. it has blowby but i dont know how much is to much

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i guess i will know more after i do a leakdown and compression test on it saturday

Yeah the tests will tell you alot

Forgot you had that done.

Will be interesting to see what the leakdown test tells you.

well i just got done with the compression test and with 6 cranks the #3 cylander is at 360psi dont know what they are supposed to be at so i will see what the rest of the pistons are at just for kicks