So the scoop, we have a 644e, its kind of in an equipment retirement home, typically used a few hours a week at best unless we're really doing something, its great help for moving tons of snow that we don't have. Here's my thought.. If we had a fan like an older dozer, ours is a non clutch belt drive, Flipping the blades from blow to suck would draw all the excess heat around the engine, hydraulic tank and trans and help warm things up a lot better to drive off moisture before it collects. I use a fan swap in my small dozer for winter, it runs a lot better and melts the ice off the floorboards. This machine doesn't get 'hot' even in the summer, trans temp barely gets to 1/4 even if working it pretty hard.
Huber Reversible Fan company made here in erie, pa now gone. My Fiat allis 12g had 2 of them.
Seems they closed up shop
Is there an echo in here ?
I failed to read the gone part
Some new old stock on ebay https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nk...sacat=0&_from=R40&_trksid=p2332490.m570.l1313
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I put a suction fan on my skid steer for the winter but it sucked in more ways than one. Cab had a nasty oil and dirt smell and just not worth the little bit of extra heat. Still got the smell with the belly pan and everything cleaned up. Could be that a skid steer is too compact and the cab isn't sealed or pressurized. Wheel loader may have pressurized cab.
I saw that one, gotta measure my fan clearance.
and the smell wasn't from you? You have some hydraulic leaks that need fixing? The loader doesn't have a tightly sealed cab but the heater does draw air through an external panel filter for at least some of the intake air, must give it some positive pressure for dust.
Just a basic skid steer. Standard aux. 12 volt heater. No oil leaks but unless the machine is operating room clean you still get a smell in the cab. Being a skid steer with a small cab contributes to the problem. I think a wheel loader would have a much better cab and the engine being higher it wouldn't get as dirty.