Posted by notjustair on December 25, 2019 at 19:01:13 from (98.188.112.49):
This is a new one to me. I’ll try to be brief.
Bought a Deere 323D skid steer new. At about 600 hours the oil return line for the turbo sprung a leak and it caught fire. The dealer repaired it but it was plagued with gremlins. Four new head gaskets. New head. New hydraulic pump. Each time it came home with a new malady. In the end it started making oil at a pretty good rate and they couldn’t figure it out. Two sets of injectors. Two rebuilt pumps. Transfer pumps. The list went on and on. I was almost ready to throw in the towel when they brought out a loaner because it began overheating after 10 minutes of run time. The owner of the dealer has always been good to me and would do anything to make things right for the folks who have been by him since he started.
The loaner is a 323 E and I’ve had it about 18 months now. Yes, 18 months. I’ve asked him to quote me a price to trade and he says don’t worry, we’ll figure it out. I’ve put 250 hours on this one and it’s a good machine. Better than the other ever was. When he quotes me a price I’ll buy it.
The other day I checked the oil and it is 3/4 inch over full! I haven’t checked it in a while, but there is 125 hours on this oil change done by me and filled right to the full line. They told me this is a completely different engine, but how can it be making oil, too? I’ve put tens of thousands of hours on tractors in my farming career. I owned and drove school buses. I’ve got diesel pickups and semis. I know there are exceptions (like when the IC buses came out), but I have NEVER had an engine make oil. What is going on?
I don’t idle them. I don’t overload them or lug them. I use them respectfully and don’t abuse machines. It gets to operating temps each time I use it and usually run it on something like a tree puller so it isn’t putting around feeding a bale or something. Heck, I’ve got the 4020 that came here new with 24,000 hours and one rebuild on it now and it only uses oil when it gets dirty and close to an oil change. I’m sure it isn’t me. I would have never made it farming all these years without going bust if I ruined every engine.
Any Ideas? Oddly, this one has about as many hours now as the D did when it started making oil. They replaced everything trying to figure that out and it still sits behind their shop. A young service tech actually asked me if I thought that someone might be sneaking up to the farm and adding oil to it without me knowing. You can bet how well that went over! It’s just a puzzle to me.
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