EGT, how hot

[cmills]

We have a 1086 international farm tractor which we do almost all of our tillage work with, so we had it turned up a little a few years ago. It does not have a pyrometer on it so I don't know what the temps are but when you turn the lights off at night and get out and look, the exhaust manifold will be glowing, I would think that this is way to hot but it gets run for hours on end like this and it has never had a problem. My question is does anybody have any guess as to how hot it is running?





thanks,

Cory

 

[cmills]

Too hot

well if nobody has a guess, would you say that it is too hot whatever it is?

 

[nickleinonen]

the GE loco engines at work under full load will have the exhaust manifolds glowing a dull red/red-orange... i've seen them get to orange/orange-yellow when it had a bad turbo...



if it's dull red [kinda like a oven heating element when not at full temp] it's fine... but a pyro would be a good idea

 

[ndurbin]

Is the water temp running hot?... ... ... . and yeah a pyro would be a good idea.



Nathan

 

[cmills]

too hot

It gets kind of a red orange color and no the water temp stays fine, I agree that a pyro would be a good idea and I told them (dad and uncle) but it didn't seem to mean anything.

 

[Joe G.]

Most any engine I've seen run with a good load on it will have a glow to the exhaust manifold that is visable in the dark.

 

[mberry]

Based on what you describe, I don't think it's too hot. Sounds like it's running good and I wouldn't worry about it at all.



Are you running sythetic motor oil?