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I don't think you'll have any trouble but ask yourself, what is the worst that could happen? What if it does wet stack? Are you going to have to shake the carbon out of the exhaust? Worst case throw some new piston rings on a 2 cylinder engine? Will you get to this point within your lifetime?

For further clarification we replaced JD 6081 8.1L generator sets with these 4.5L units. The lube consumption was very high on the 8.1 units but we ran them to 35,000 hours this way. The 8.1 liter engines were burning about a gallon every 100 hours. The 4.5 engines don't require additional lube...

I run John Deere 4045AFM85 engines as generator sets in my fleet. They spend 99% of their life at 10% load with monetary peaks to 75% load. We certainly do get carbon buildup in the stacks but have never actually experienced wet stacking or a stack fire. These engines average 2500-3000 hours per...