Jungle T-200
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- Mar 24, 2015
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Hello, I've got a T-200 Turbo High Flow stuck in a remote mountainous area of Costa Rica. The Deutz engine runs great typically but now seems to be engaged into the hydraulics so much that while I can turn it over, it won't start due to the load. Those symptoms started out ever so slightly where I could fiddle with the two control levers and get the engine running, though now it won't even start. I was able to get the engine started momentarily yesterday but suddenly black smoke and an overburdening of the engine seems to stall it out. It makes no difference if the seat bar is up or down, the engine still has the same workload on it. With the bar down there is a light "on" in the BICS panel and I can push the green button and have all the other lights come on, until it stalls out, and that at a fast idle. The hydraulic fluid is up though I do have a dripping lift cylinder seal. Something is causing the machine to engage the hydraulics all the time thus not allowing the engine to operate detached from the hydraulic load. The only Bobcat dealer in the country has now been deemed "unauthorized" and taken off Bobcat's list of dealers, while no Bobcat service departments in the states really want to talk with me. I hope someone out there can point me in the right direction on what to easily test for.