I have a buddy who owns and lets me use his Case 450 CT skid steer. Over the last several months it has been behaving in an odd manner and I was hoping someone could point us in a direction to diagnose and hopefully fix the problem.
When it is running, the thing runs perfectly. It will randomly just stop running, no sputtering or warning, just stop as if you turned it off. From that moment till usually a couple of hours later, any attempts to start it will be a clean turn over that sounds great but does not catch in the least and definitely doesn't start back up.
If you let it sit for a few hours it will then randomly start perfectly. As in doesn't even require a full turn over before it is running beautifully. It will then run for a half hour to an hour and then just randomly stop running again.
During the down time when it will not start, it has plenty of juice but will not start even with full battery or on a booster/trickle charger. It also does not spew anything at all from the exhaust stack when it is being turned over. It seems like the fuel just stops flowing and then turns back on randomly.
But as soon as it decides to start again it doesn't hesitate. It's after midnight here right now, but will get a hold of my buddy in the AM to see what all he has tried to do to fix it.
I was hoping someone could point me towards some diagnostic algorithms or potentially have some good ideas of where to start looking.
Any and all help is appreciated. Figuring this out would definitely score me some points with my buddy who is kind enough to let me use this thing from time to time.
When it is running, the thing runs perfectly. It will randomly just stop running, no sputtering or warning, just stop as if you turned it off. From that moment till usually a couple of hours later, any attempts to start it will be a clean turn over that sounds great but does not catch in the least and definitely doesn't start back up.
If you let it sit for a few hours it will then randomly start perfectly. As in doesn't even require a full turn over before it is running beautifully. It will then run for a half hour to an hour and then just randomly stop running again.
During the down time when it will not start, it has plenty of juice but will not start even with full battery or on a booster/trickle charger. It also does not spew anything at all from the exhaust stack when it is being turned over. It seems like the fuel just stops flowing and then turns back on randomly.
But as soon as it decides to start again it doesn't hesitate. It's after midnight here right now, but will get a hold of my buddy in the AM to see what all he has tried to do to fix it.
I was hoping someone could point me towards some diagnostic algorithms or potentially have some good ideas of where to start looking.
Any and all help is appreciated. Figuring this out would definitely score me some points with my buddy who is kind enough to let me use this thing from time to time.