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That's what I was hoping for. Im sure it got hot enough to swell the bearing and or journal to explain being hard to turn over initially. I've had small engines do that and then be completely fine after adding oil but like you said nowhere near the force of a diesel engine.

Also the machine only has 950 hours on it if that matters any

Hello. I purchased a bobcat 873 with the duetz bf4m1101f engine from a neighbor. It developed an oil leak and he didn't keep an eye on the oil level and ran it low. It started knocking and he said he shut it off. Tried to start it back up and engine would barely turn over. Couple weeks later I...