mgrantphoto
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- Kansas City, Missouri
- Tractor
- Mustang Owatonna 345 skid steer
I'm not sure where to put this post so I'll start here with my story/dilemna.
I have a Mustang Owatonna 345 skid steer that I believe was built between 1978 and 1982. It's powered by a Duetz 2 cylinder air-cooled diesel engine and was running fine except it was using A LOT OF OIL. If I ran it 3 or 4 hours, I'd have to stop and put a gallon of oil in it. I have no diesel engine knowlesge so I assumed that it was in need of an upper end rebuild. I pulled the motor so I could also inspect the lower end while I had it out and took my cylinders, the head and pistons to a local tractor repair facility for them to tell me what I needed to do. Long story short, they moved out in the middle of the night with all of my parts along with a lot of other people's parts.
After talking to some people, I've learned that it could have been an injector problem but it's a bit late to do anything about it now. I'm now needing to locate the parts to put it back together again, the cylinders, head and new pistons plus a rebuild kit for the engine. I've not had a whole lot of luck so now I'm thinking that I may be able to retro-fit another engine to the machine. I can't afford a new one and all of the hydraulic cylinders have just been freshly rebuilt so I'd really like to keep it.
I have photos of the engine compartment and the rest of the machine if that will help. I understand that they used to put Ford 4 cylinders in the earlier models (1975?) but not absolutely positive. Is that an option? Is there another option for a newer engine like maybe an Onan or Koehler? The engine that was in it was an F2L511.
Marc
I have a Mustang Owatonna 345 skid steer that I believe was built between 1978 and 1982. It's powered by a Duetz 2 cylinder air-cooled diesel engine and was running fine except it was using A LOT OF OIL. If I ran it 3 or 4 hours, I'd have to stop and put a gallon of oil in it. I have no diesel engine knowlesge so I assumed that it was in need of an upper end rebuild. I pulled the motor so I could also inspect the lower end while I had it out and took my cylinders, the head and pistons to a local tractor repair facility for them to tell me what I needed to do. Long story short, they moved out in the middle of the night with all of my parts along with a lot of other people's parts.
After talking to some people, I've learned that it could have been an injector problem but it's a bit late to do anything about it now. I'm now needing to locate the parts to put it back together again, the cylinders, head and new pistons plus a rebuild kit for the engine. I've not had a whole lot of luck so now I'm thinking that I may be able to retro-fit another engine to the machine. I can't afford a new one and all of the hydraulic cylinders have just been freshly rebuilt so I'd really like to keep it.
I have photos of the engine compartment and the rest of the machine if that will help. I understand that they used to put Ford 4 cylinders in the earlier models (1975?) but not absolutely positive. Is that an option? Is there another option for a newer engine like maybe an Onan or Koehler? The engine that was in it was an F2L511.
Marc