Fitzgerald 60 series Detroit 12.7

Yea i idled for most part it was high idle tho.

 

Mine cost 27+ with core

 

Idling is not the best for Detroit during the break in period but high idle is best if you absolutely have to.

 

Just went through this bs with fitzgerald & Clarke Power (detroit).
New glider with 81,000 miles on a Detroit factory 12.7. Smoked like a freight train below 45 degrees out. Lots of blowby. Low compression on 2 cylinders. Overhauled the piece of #### & raised compression from 15:1 to 16.5:1. 12,000 miles now on the rebuild and she's a gutless turd still but smoking less on cold start. Also had a rear main done last week. Head over heels in love with Detroit

 

One mans bad luck is not the norm. We are at 750k zero problems with our clarke.
I feel for your troubles, but also real curious on this compression raise, did you leave the borg warner turbo alone? Are you still hitting 35 psi?

 

Yea i bought a new engine for mine old engine blew tons of blue smoke. The new engine does the same 27g down the drain. It to is gutless lucky to get 6.5 6.7 on light load.
People tell me its normal to blow smoke trust me my truck is way beyond normal. I see other gliders do fine on cold starts.
I park at a tstop get a hotel due to overwhelming smell of burning oil overloading fuel whatever it is. Start truck up next morning if its below 40 tons of smoke below 30 sounds like somebody beating on the engine with sledgehammer. Nobody knows what it is i have about 3 month of shoptime everybody clueless unreal.

 

Have you had the ECM program checked by someone who knows what they are doing? Not sure if you mentioned that.

 

Yeah, you're pretty much describing the 10 we have. 3 years of this crap and we're sending them down the road to someone else. Our emissions trucks are more reliable and less trouble.

 

I believe there was a thread kicking around here somewhere for this exact problem.
If I remember right the problems all stemmed from the wrong programming for the replacement engine.
The solution was reprogramming with the correct software for the new engine.