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    Oil change interval. Tractor vs excavator

    Originally Posted by naterbomb I have been around heavy equipment, trucks, and tractors my entire life. Small to some of the largest heavy equipment made in small businesses to large fleets. The general rule of thumb at all of them when using hours on diesel services has been 250 hours or yearly...
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    Oil change interval. Tractor vs excavator

    Originally Posted by LubricatusObsess Interesting. By happenstance, do they have different operating speed ranges? Likely not, being in the same power band. Do they have differing fuel injection systems? Is the older IDI and the newer DI? Do they have different fuel injection pressures? That's...
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    Oil change interval. Tractor vs excavator

    No emmision controls. Both tier 3.
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    Oil change interval. Tractor vs excavator

    A curiosity question here. I have a 2014 Kioti 50 hp tier 3 Diesel and a 2006 Yanmar 55 hp tier 3 diesel. Both are non turbo and take about 2 gals of oil with a similar sized oil filter. The Kioti calls for a 100 hr oil change interval and the Yanmar calls for a 250hr change interval. Why such a...
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    Manual steering gearbox lube

    Originally Posted by andyd I used 80w90 Gear lube. Armstrong steering, you really don't wanna use grease,. You're gonna have enough trouble steering it already It is a chore. I often wonder about making it power steering .
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    Manual steering gearbox lube

    Originally Posted by Kruse For something that old, I'd probably use John Deere Corn Head grease. It's thinner, almost semi-pourable at higher temps than regular grease and is not recommended for a lot of areas that take a regular grease. A lot of people use it in gear boxes and report good...
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    Manual steering gearbox lube

    I have a 77 Ford f700 with manual steering. I tried searching around and I get conflicting info on grease or 80w90 oil. It seems that 00 grease would make the most sense. What do you think?
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    Holley carb only works on cold engine

    Originally Posted by OVERKILL Just went and looked at it and yeah, it's a 650 double-pumper. However, we pulled the choke plate at some point there. This was the carb: https://www.holley.com/products/fue...mper/classic_double_pumper/parts/0-4777C However, most of what you see was reused on...
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    Holley carb only works on cold engine

    Originally Posted by OVERKILL Originally Posted by liberty Originally Posted by OVERKILL Not sure what the body is on that one, but I have a 4160 mainbody here that you can have for the price of shipping if you want it. Would you by chance know the cfm on it? IIRC, I think it's a 650? I could...
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    Holley carb only works on cold engine

    Originally Posted by OVERKILL Not sure what the body is on that one, but I have a 4160 mainbody here that you can have for the price of shipping if you want it. Would you by chance know the cfm on it?
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    Holley carb only works on cold engine

    Originally Posted by mk378 The governor feature is useful for dump trucks since you can run up the engine in a controlled way to power the PTO pump. It has a manual cable for that on the dash. I pull the knob and it sets the throttle.
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    Holley carb only works on cold engine

    Originally Posted by NYEngineer Fixed or not, I;d still replace the carb with one without all that goofiness. Thanks for the advice but since it is a farm truck I will just keep it for now. Luckily it was a simple fix The first sign of another problem I will replace it.
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    Holley carb only works on cold engine

    Originally Posted by mk378 If you disconnect the bottom hose from the spinner to the governor diaphragm and leave it open, that should disable any vacuum governor action so then you can concentrate on the mechanical linkage. Which looks at the least, really rusty. Was this truck left out in the...
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    Holley carb only works on cold engine

    Originally Posted by mk378 Are you sure the problem is the throttle plate not opening? According to this http://www.tocmp.com/manuals/Carbs/Holley/H4V-4150-60-80/HolleyB150_html/MCarbHollB150_0018.htm there is mechanical link from the gas pedal to the throttle through a spring. In case of...
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    Holley carb only works on cold engine

    Originally Posted by MrMoody Have you opened the vacuum servo? On something that old, the diaphragm is suspect. That is what I am going to do next.
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