Recent content by Stonetile

Hey, Has anyone replaced their oil pan gasket yet? I have a 99 873 with my oil pan leaking pretty good, had Bobcat come to quote on replacing it; some really young guy came and said the whole engine has to be taken out and he gave me a long story about how hard it is... in the end I had to pay a...

I've been playing with different heating systems over the past 10 years in many different systems and by far I've been most impressed by the 873 heating system, running the engine oil through heat exchangers before it goes through the oil cooler. On my 873 theres one heat exchanger on each side...

Hey everyone, Does nobody on here have a similar heating system? Mine has a blower and heat exhanger on each side of you approx at your elbows with hot/cold and fan speeds above your left shoulder while in the bobcat. I have replaced the relay, speed control switch, fan motors and resistors...

Hey everyone, Fixing the cabin blower in a 99 873 F series with dual heater/blowers in the cab. I replaced both fan motors and the control knob/switch along with the resistors but still no fan... I changed out the motors because they were coated in dirt and clearly wouldnt work, resistors while...

Sorry for the double post here, don't know how to edit a previous post yet. I just found out how to actually lift the cab off and found where the blowers bolt onto the cab from the outside and I just have to disconnect the coolant lines from the heater cores now to fully remove the blower...

Hey everyone, I have been working on repairing a mistreated Bobcat 873 F Series, don't know the year, but I'm stuck trying to remove the blower assembly as it is broken. I had to soak undeath the seat before I could move it forward at all to have some access to the rear of the blowers and cannot...