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<blockquote data-quote="Mikefromcny" data-source="post: 61938" data-attributes="member: 6488"><p>The story on it is: I bought it from an owner operator who primarily runs big excavators and dozers. he told me "its using antifreeze, and its too small, its like digging with a spoon" lol lol. It hydro locked on that cylinder a week after I bought it, yanked the head off expecting a blown head gasket. Small pinhole about 1" from deck. Affected cylinder's piston was all beatup looking, could see the top ring. Installed new head gasket and buttoned her back up. Ran some block sealer through it, uses a gallon every few running hours. Has good oil pressure and coolant doesnt make it in the oil. When it starts it will skip for a second till the middle cylinder kicks in (201 ci 3 cylinder). It will start at 10F just using the manifold heater. It has the "blue" motor so it was replaced at some point, probably for the same reason, machine had 4000 hours on it. When (if) it ever quits, I'll bore and sleeve all the cylinders. A local truck/equipment shop is owned by a guy who was a master tech at ford equipment dealer where mine came from new. After mentioning my cavitation problem, he said he got to know the 201 ci REAL well when he worked there..lol. Apparently a lot of them did it, I know of a handful of 555c and 555d 4 cylinder models with cavitated cylinders as well. I've also seen a perkins in a white 2-105 farm tractor do it and a couple of cat 3208s do it as well. I'd bet most of it was from not regularly changing coolant/using the additive. 10,000lbs is the absolute most it could do, I think a 20ft container is around 5000lbs. It will pick the back wheels off the ground.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mikefromcny, post: 61938, member: 6488"] The story on it is: I bought it from an owner operator who primarily runs big excavators and dozers. he told me "its using antifreeze, and its too small, its like digging with a spoon" lol lol. It hydro locked on that cylinder a week after I bought it, yanked the head off expecting a blown head gasket. Small pinhole about 1" from deck. Affected cylinder's piston was all beatup looking, could see the top ring. Installed new head gasket and buttoned her back up. Ran some block sealer through it, uses a gallon every few running hours. Has good oil pressure and coolant doesnt make it in the oil. When it starts it will skip for a second till the middle cylinder kicks in (201 ci 3 cylinder). It will start at 10F just using the manifold heater. It has the "blue" motor so it was replaced at some point, probably for the same reason, machine had 4000 hours on it. When (if) it ever quits, I'll bore and sleeve all the cylinders. A local truck/equipment shop is owned by a guy who was a master tech at ford equipment dealer where mine came from new. After mentioning my cavitation problem, he said he got to know the 201 ci REAL well when he worked there..lol. Apparently a lot of them did it, I know of a handful of 555c and 555d 4 cylinder models with cavitated cylinders as well. I've also seen a perkins in a white 2-105 farm tractor do it and a couple of cat 3208s do it as well. I'd bet most of it was from not regularly changing coolant/using the additive. 10,000lbs is the absolute most it could do, I think a 20ft container is around 5000lbs. It will pick the back wheels off the ground. [/QUOTE]
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