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Hi everyone, I received some bad news today in regards to my 140H machine I run in the spring summer and fall, She is my baby and have been on her sense new, the oil report from SOS came back bad for my engine from Cat, the engine has 13000+ hrs on her and its the 3176 C11, the sample showed lead and bearing findings also some antifreeze, they recommended stop running the engine ASAP, crank bearing are going, I have faithfully changed the oil in this machine at 250 hrs and fuel filters at 500hrs sense new plus always followed the PM laid out from Cat to the letter, and have not had one bit of trouble with the engine ever, the only thing that was done different was our shop switched to Baldwin filters from the Cat ones about 2 years ago for my machine to save a buck, as of now the machine runs great lots of power no noises, you would never know something is wrong, it has not been going down on Antifreeze or using oil any more different than any other time, our shop Mech is going to open up the oil filter to see what findings may be in there, I will be looking at 7-8 weeks from the date they take her till I get her back, god only knows what old blister the will give me till my baby returns, I am dreading it.