Mike K
Cast Iron
- Joined
- Nov 30, 2002
- Location
- Southern Indiana
I have a 2005 VF-2 that occasionally gives a #121 "low lube or low pressure" alarm. The lube reservoir needs to be added to occasionally just as I would expect, and the gage runs up to 50 # or so when it drops off the cam.
The alarm worried me enough that I had a tech come by, but all he came up was excess volume (it was pumping 5cc rather than 2.5-3cc if I remember right) which he readjusted or possibly excess tackifier in the waylube we are using. The theory on the tackifier being that it is slowly gumming up the restrictors in the system. Of course the tackifier idea worries me a lot.
We are using Blaser Waylube 68 because it works well with the Blaser coolant that we use. Haas recommends Mobil Vactra #2 (also ISO 68) and the service tech seemed to think that the Blaser was a little more stringy when doing the thumb-forefinger seperation thing.
Has anyone out there had problems with too much tackifier plugging lube systems? Any other thoughts?
The alarm worried me enough that I had a tech come by, but all he came up was excess volume (it was pumping 5cc rather than 2.5-3cc if I remember right) which he readjusted or possibly excess tackifier in the waylube we are using. The theory on the tackifier being that it is slowly gumming up the restrictors in the system. Of course the tackifier idea worries me a lot.
We are using Blaser Waylube 68 because it works well with the Blaser coolant that we use. Haas recommends Mobil Vactra #2 (also ISO 68) and the service tech seemed to think that the Blaser was a little more stringy when doing the thumb-forefinger seperation thing.
Has anyone out there had problems with too much tackifier plugging lube systems? Any other thoughts?