Recent content by mpoore

Troubleshooting without a wiring diagram is difficult. It sounds like you think it is temperature related. If it cannot be moved into a heated building, then try to warm it where it is. Throw a tarp over it and let it idle. If this is an air cooled engine you will need to be careful it does not...

Thanks. That must have held a lot of fuel. A previous owner mounted a one gallon tank above the engine behind the driver. Is there a crossover for the hydraulic fluid as well? I have not removed the plate under the pedals, so maybe I will figure it out then.

This M500 that I am trying to undue all of the redneck engineering has a couple of pipes coming off the bottom of the chain drive enclosures. (Picture below) One is capped and the other is wide open. This was discovered after pulling the engine. The manuals are difficult for me to follow. I...

I am interested in buying a junk K532 or one of the others in the K series (K482, K532, K582, k662). I recently bought a Bobcat M500 that came stock with a Kohler K532 engine. The engine has good compression, but is missing sheet metal on the cylinders. More may be missing, but I cannot find...