Posted by RBoots on July 09, 2017 at 12:57:39 from (173.241.113.102):
I got a call from a fella in a nearby town Friday night wondering if I could look at his tractor. I don't know the guy, he got my number from another guy, that's how I get a lot of calls for repair in my area. I told him I'd be there at 1'O clock Saturday. I got over there and he explained to me that he takes the kids, grandkids, other family members on a hayride to his property that adjoins this man made lake where the property owners association sets off fireworks for the 4th of July. As he was on his way back pulling the wagon loaded with family members, the windows fogged quickly when he entered the woods, and he thought he was still on the trail, but he accidentally drove off the trail and over the river bank. His tractor went into about 6' of water, where he had to swim out of the cab. Luckily he got out ok and no one on the wagon got hurt. They all had to walk back home the rest of the way in the dark. The dealer told him it is a Cummins engine and he needed to pull the glow plugs to get the water out of the cylinders. He told me it is a Branson? tractor, which I am not familiar with at all, but I guess I've never seen a Cummins with glow plugs that I can remember. So I got over there, and see it's no Cummins, it's a Kutjke(?), and when I told him that, the dealer said "well it's a Cummins knock off". I guess you could say that, since it's a diesel engine... It has no glow plugs either, only a grid heater on the intake and only injectors in the head. Have to pull the valve covers to remove the injectors and have to remove a bunch of other junk first before the valve cover comes off. The fuel tank and both filters were full of water. Got them drained, he had already changed the hyd oil and had pulled the engine oil drain and let it set for a few days. I told him we'll just turn the engine over by hand first and just see if it's worth pulling the injectors. Made numerous turns by hand and all was ok, but had a hard spot in one spot each revolution. When asked if it went down running, he said "yes, but it shut right off when the air cleaner went under". Bad news, I told him 99 times out of a 100 that will bend the rods. After I turned it by hand, I had him just make short taps on the starter after we put oil back in it, it did ok with that for several more revolutions. After that, we turned it over and started it, and it has a heck of a hammer to it. I told him that she's toast, and will need either major engine work or a reman engine. Being it is a Korean engine with probably very little support, I told him if he wanted a reman engine installed, I would do that, but I didn't want to mess with trying to rebuild that engine and hunt for specs or parts, or a machine shop that will want to work on the hard parts. Unfortunately, it is out of warranty, still has plastic on the seat, and only has 194 hours on it! It's a shame, seems like a cheap built tractor, but has a nice little loader, mfwd, cab with AC/heat. Too bad, it's gonna be expensive either way.
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