MHarryE
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- Joined
- Feb 15, 2009
- Messages
- 2,946
- Location
- Northeastern Minnesota
- Tractor
- Kubota M7-171, M5-111, SVL75-2, RTV900XT & GR2120; CaseIH 1680 combine
Does anybody know how to keep their coolers from plugging quickly? Sunday afternoon I cut some grass and brush for the last time this year. I cleaned the radiator and air conditioner screens well before cutting. I worked about 3 hours and really didn't see dust in the air but the next morning when I checked the screens were over half covered, and a lot of trash made it past the screens so all 3 cores were plugged. I blew them all out, then went disking. I only had about 6 acres to cover, about 1 hour, but before I finished I noticed the temp gauge had crept up from 4 bars to 5 bars. Sure enough both screens and the cores were again filled half way up although I was disking ground that had Beene plowed, then disked three times before. I wish the screens would keep the cores clean but they don't appear to do much although it TSC easy to blow out the dirt which consists of plant material, not soil. When I clean it out I make sure to clean the stuff I blew out of the cores out of the space in front so it doesn't get sucked back in. Has anyone tried blocking the lower part of the grill to see if that helps? I thought of taking a saber saw to the hood and cutting a hole there, adding a screen to it, and blocking off all of the lower grill openings because they always seem to be cornered with plant material.