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75 Cat D3 engine problem.
I used the second auxiliary temp sensor plug behind the t-stat. After 4 cycles of pulling the plug, getting steam burned, and adding coolant in it I finally got it bleed. I honestly thought I had lost the engine but apparently it was air locked and got hot, about 220* and started to run like... -
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75 Cat D3 engine problem.
Thank you I'll check it out. I haven't had good luck with manuals from Ebay, the prints haven't all been complete. I bought one for a bobcat 963G and half of it was missing. -
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75 Cat D3 engine problem.
Ok I'll look for it, should be obvious. One thing I'm looking for is the $800 repair manual, but not for $800. Thank you -
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75 Cat D3 engine problem.
Thank you for the input and apologies for the late responses. I'm Looking into the parts resources you all have mentioned, I haven't had time to look the machine over.....hopefully this weekend. Side note, are these engines a pain to purge the air out of the cooling system? I changed some... -
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75 Cat D3 engine problem.
Thank you for the replies, I'm going to pull the head and dig into int a little this week to get a better feel for what it looks like. Do you remember what it cost you to have sleeves pushed in and have it re-built? I can find long blocks for around 5k or so. But I have an issue with trusting a... -
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75 Cat D3 engine problem.
I have a 1975 Cat D3, 79U machine, 45V PC engine. Since I bought the machine it has had a pretty good amount of blow by, but good power and ran great. Today the blow by became pretty heavy out of the draft tube and exhaust, and it lost about 2 gallons of coolant out of the overflow. I quickly...