Breather 7245 engine

I have oil coming from the breather on my 7245, it is spraying a lot of oil out. Is this common? any ideas or is it a case of new pistons etc??

Hi

It shouldn't be doing it but if you don't work it very hard it can happen. Try giving it a days hard work. You can also slow the oil flow by taking the breather pipe off, heating it up and bending it to form an upside down "U" bend. Before you re-fit it pack the pipe with some wire wool at the top end, not too tightly so it can still breathe. It sounds a bit crude but it works.

Mike

Your engine hasnt done enough work, its just lazy.

our 5245 has the same pistons, rings, liners as your 7245 and they were notorious for not seating properly when only used for light work. First soak the piston rings on DOT 4 brake fluid (through the injector holes) for a week, to loosen the carbon, then crank the engine without injectors to throw out the excessive brake fluid, put injectors back make it run untill slightly warm (no load) then change the oil to get rid of the brake fluid that seeped along the piston rings into the sump. With fresh oil, hook it up to the biggest plough or cultivator it can carry, and hammer down on it.

Our 5245 used half a liter of oil a day when we first put it in front of our 6m3 manure tanker. Nowadays it pulls a 10m3 manure tanker with 5.5 meter injector as easy as it did the 6m3 back then, but the oil consumption is from upper dipstick mark to lower dipstick mark in about 300 hrs, which is the regular oil change interval.

If its not overheated, you can fit another breather to it. Just order similar cover and breather as spareparts. Then replace the blind cover with cover with breather. This usually helps. Or then you can replace original cover with 6340 model cover + breather. Thought im not 100% sure does new breather fit to older engine.

But if its overheated, you must change piston rings propably....