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Message: <blockquote data-quote="shane77" data-source="post: 138411" data-attributes="member: 25734">I bought this bad boy used. Pretty decent shape. Ran it around for 20min and everything seem to work fine. So I bought itThen I put her to work and she started to run warm. Not in the but darn close. Seeing the radiator was original and after flushing I decided to replace it and clean the hydraulic radiator to while at it. Thought that would do the trick. But after about 45min to hour she creeps up close to the red line again. With my laser heat gun I test the lines. I'm reading 140 to 160 degrees on the out put side of radiator and from engine to the radiator I'm getting reading from 170 to 198 being the thermostat area is almost 200 degree. What is the operating temp of these machines? I can not seem to find this info. I went to pull thermostat and it was missing. Going to put a new water pump on her to make sure that is good to. I have not pulled plugs yet to scope and see if the head gasket is bad.  She's a bit cold blooded to start but once up to halfway I usually can shut off the choke. My local Bobcat dealer not much help. The guy seems stoned all the time and was a pain to get updated auxiliary fitting that should have been simple. Any help would be appreciated Thanks</blockquote>