eightksi
Bronze Member
I'm a new Satoh owner, and wanted to drop in and say hello.
Picked up a nice used Satoh Buck S470d a couple weeks ago. 540 hours. Super heavy duty 5-foot rear Ro-Tech Master finish mower. Real good mechanical condition, but it needed basically all kinds of maintenance, since none had been done to it in years. I used two and a half tubes with my small grease gun on the zerks for the mower's 3 spindles, the steering, knuckles, pedals, etc.
Engine oil, front and rear trans/hydraulic fluid, battery, mower belts were all completely shot, and replaced.
The worst part: I overheated a little after running for an hour.
The cooling system was terrible: radiator fins plugged, terrible flow, hoses bad. Tore it down, flushed block and radiator. Blew out tons of junk from the radiator fins with my compressor, had the rad flushed/cleaned by a rad shop.
Now, I'm just waiting for the replacement hoses (and the missing thermostat) to ship to me from Valley Power (satohparts.com). Good guys, and I will definitely use them whenever I need parts, which I'm sure I will again! I'll put the whole front end back together, fill it up w/coolant mix, and I should be ready to go!
It was stored inside and rarely used, but they just didn't do any maintenance on it, especially any fluid changes or greasing. I doubt the motor has any damage: doesn't seem to lose coolant, and the only smoke from it is just the black diesel smoke when I throttle up, or start it up. No white smoke. I had put some Diesel fuel system cleaner in it before the cooling problems started, and I think it ran even smoother.
I'll attach a before pic, then an after pic in a few days, or however long it takes to get it back in commission. I degreased some of the frame and other parts, while I was draining out fluids, so it is starting to look a little better. The price was really good, so I don't mind some of this overdue maintenance work I'm doing to it. Paid $2600 for the tractor, mower, Diesel can, and a couple manuals. If I get selfish, I may even buy a nicer replacement seat.
Picked up a nice used Satoh Buck S470d a couple weeks ago. 540 hours. Super heavy duty 5-foot rear Ro-Tech Master finish mower. Real good mechanical condition, but it needed basically all kinds of maintenance, since none had been done to it in years. I used two and a half tubes with my small grease gun on the zerks for the mower's 3 spindles, the steering, knuckles, pedals, etc.
Engine oil, front and rear trans/hydraulic fluid, battery, mower belts were all completely shot, and replaced.
The worst part: I overheated a little after running for an hour.
The cooling system was terrible: radiator fins plugged, terrible flow, hoses bad. Tore it down, flushed block and radiator. Blew out tons of junk from the radiator fins with my compressor, had the rad flushed/cleaned by a rad shop.
Now, I'm just waiting for the replacement hoses (and the missing thermostat) to ship to me from Valley Power (satohparts.com). Good guys, and I will definitely use them whenever I need parts, which I'm sure I will again! I'll put the whole front end back together, fill it up w/coolant mix, and I should be ready to go!
It was stored inside and rarely used, but they just didn't do any maintenance on it, especially any fluid changes or greasing. I doubt the motor has any damage: doesn't seem to lose coolant, and the only smoke from it is just the black diesel smoke when I throttle up, or start it up. No white smoke. I had put some Diesel fuel system cleaner in it before the cooling problems started, and I think it ran even smoother.
I'll attach a before pic, then an after pic in a few days, or however long it takes to get it back in commission. I degreased some of the frame and other parts, while I was draining out fluids, so it is starting to look a little better. The price was really good, so I don't mind some of this overdue maintenance work I'm doing to it. Paid $2600 for the tractor, mower, Diesel can, and a couple manuals. If I get selfish, I may even buy a nicer replacement seat.