Chinese Mini Skid Steer AGT LRT23 Overheating

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roymann

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Can't find any posts on these Chinese Skid Steers. Before you serve me for not buying American - Do you shop at Walmart? Target? Auto Zone? Advance Auto? Most of their merchandise and parts are from China - read the labels. So, I bought a new AGT LTR23 for $4750.00 knowing that it would probably require upgrades. I'm a former Navy Engineman with 4 yrs Submarine Service. I know my way around engineering equipment. The Honda Knockoff engine, 739cc, was stalling at about 1 1/2 hours of continuous use. My first upgrade was to replace the impulse fuel pump with a 12 volt electric. The hydraulic temp gauge was reading 70C - seemed high to me so I flipped the oil cooler fan to stop it from drawing hot air from the engine to drawing cool air from outside. I also reversed the 2 wires to the fan motor. It now runs about 2 hours before reaching high temps and shutting down. Anyone else encounter these over heating problems?
 
I thankfully haven't had these issues. I bought a Agt LRT 23 in October and the thing ran fine for maybe 3 weeks then wouldn't run longer than 3 seconds. So I replaced the fuel filter and air filter with the one that comes in that junky yellow toolbox they give you and it would run fine then. Well, 2 weeks later the thing wouldn't run again and found a YouTube video on the fuel filter being the problem. So I bypassed the fuel filter and it ran like a charm. So I got one of the 12 v pumps like you have and put on American fuel filter and I haven't had an issue yet! Before I couldn't run it at full throttle because it would surge out of control and die, now I can run at full throttle. i love this little skid, it's cold here in Nebraska and it starts up no worries each time. I've made a grapple bucket, pallet forks, and snow plow for it already.
 
Thanks for answering. I replaced the hydraulic oil and engine oil. I read that the factory oil is some kind of crappy mixture of maybe vegetable oil to get by the import laws. She now runs fine - no shutting down.
 
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