Hello all, I wanted to ask whether anyone else has a cat 257b (or similar) that is hard starting. Pre-heater helps a lot to get it going. The other day it was in the shop nice and warm. I cranked it and it wouldn't start. Finally ran the preheater for a couple seconds and it fired right up. The machine has 360 hrs on it. Explain?
Fuel quality or low compression would be possible. With that low hours something strange you need preheat for a warm machine.
I don't know about "hard" starting but my 226BII almost always needs 5 seconds of glow plugs for the first start of the day. The manual says 10 seconds for cold conditions. It always starts fine if I glow it and it has the same hours as yours.
That is exactly what i'm talking about. I crank and crank, makes lots of white smoke, but no fire. And yes, its always the first start of the day.
white smoke,sounds like water in fuel?,i would syphon tank and replace filters?
What you are describing is normal for those small engines. I don't know why that is so but I've never seen an easy starting Cat skid steer.
i kinda figured that. I assumed that the emissions requirements created an injection pump that wont start the motor. I could be wrong.
I have a 262 Cat it starts good in cold weather with no smoke. I do use the glow plugs if it is cold outside.
I've got a 247B that I have to preheat when it's 70 out. jr
all the small skid steers with the 3024 engine are hard to start like 216 226 232 247 257 b and b2 models the larger ones with the 3044 engine arnt to bad to start in the cold