Well saturday the guy im working for wanted to fool around with his hoe. fine and dandy he owns it well turns out in all the dust the rad screens got plugged and the engine over heated badly. its to the piont now there is more smoke coming out of the blow by tube then the stack. so i get in and start loading out cement and a pile of roof tin and the controls get really sluggish and non responsive cant stick in and boom up or boom down and stick out at the same time swing speed and power also took a dive. last but not least at the end of the day it didnt have the power to lift and crawl up the beaver tail on the trailer could the pumps been damaged when the engine over heated we know the motor needs work now but the old guy blames me for the lack of hyd power
The performance of the hydraulic system is proportional to the power of the engine. When the engine looses rpm the computer senses it and backs off the pumps to maintain the rpm of the engine. Since the horsepower on your engine is going out the breather tube and not the crankshaft you basically don't have the power to run your hydraulics. You need a new engine. Good luck on finding that.
sounds toasty,,,,, I suppose the air filter could be clogged ... no air.... no power the put all kinds of bells and whistles on these things to warn of problems.... unless a mechanic disconected the warning stuff
Its an older 320l i changed the filters and oil topped off the coolant before i fired it up for work there are no gauges no lights its just a old demo machine worn out and ready to be scrap just ticks me off he says the lack of power is because i abused the hoe I told him I think it was because of being over heated to point he cooked the thing to death
That happened to my 320 when the motor was letting go, it had very little power. I put a new motor in it and its like a brand new machine, had 14,000 hours on it when it blew. It's a shame he overheated it that bad it blew the motor, I had someone do that to my PC400 cost me a lot of money between a rental for a week and the actual motor. THe hydraulics should be fine in your 320 as long as he didn't overheat the hydraulic fluid to.
15 000 hours and poor maint. cat dealer says the motor pumps and pilot controls need to be replaced also needs complete undercarriage and lots of other misc stuff so we have a sewer job coming up im just guna go make im spend some money on a newer hoe
Don't kill heavy equipment... I know, it's run or sit at the house... A consistent inspection of your machine can help keep you out of the blame... Now, the machine needs more work on it than it did when you took control. It's like wear the blame or walk... Overheating to the point of bad performance visualized as a smoker with tale-tell smoke color is your fault. Don't allow catastrophic damage occur to your engine unless the owner is present & is a dastard(Websters Def="evil, mean, sneaking coward."). He may kill you, but he won't eat you...
AHHH the owner did the damage maybe a few less hits off the pipe before you post would help
If i remeber correct, a oil sample from the engine will prove that the engine was overheated. Some parts will go into the oil, when different parts squizes because lack of cooling. Cat knows what to look for....
the oil was changed on site along with all filters to try and finish the job the engine is toast so are the pumps and alot of other stuff do to lack of maint we are going to try and find used parts and keep it as a spare i was actually asked what machine i would like to have and i said a hitachi 350
Is it worth it? Maybe just find a good used 320 for $80,000 there out there esp. now.
well he thinks since he paid 30 for it he can fix it up good enough for another 30
I did that to a farmer tractor many years ago. It ate cams after that stunt. Nobody understood why. Turned out the block wasn't straight anymore, so the cams got destroyed even as they had oil all the time. Funny stuff apears when u overheat engines, areas overheat more than others, and then they change design/functionality. Sounds like its ready for storage, in the back end of the parking lot.
Im sure we will pop the motor out put one that runs slightly better in maybe a rebuilt pump and limp it around smashing houses the rest of the winter
...only half the blame... The classic case of "I did what I was told." The motor should have been taken out of service when the first sign of trouble started & checked by a mechanic before it was service! What a waste of money... Continuing production until catastrophic failure occurred multiplies the cost of rebuild/replacement. Running until the job was finished, the coward's way out, makes it lucky if any profit at all was made on the job the machine was paid for...that is the owners call. But nevertheless catastrophic failure occurred because you agreed to run it to death. All that matters to me here is that you loose no time because of this issue!
What?
again i have no clue what your piont is the hoe was babied thru the day to finish the job and there was never any plan to rebuild the motor in it so it could have thrown a rod out the block for all we care. there is already a decent used motor sitting in the shop for it that we picked up today for a fraction of the cost of even a cheap rebuild. what using this machine to finish the job did was save a us from getting a rental machine and the cost of the low bed out to the site then right back to the rental yard. I dont see how i agreed to run it to death