auroraproject
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- Jun 1, 2009
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- 47
- Tractor
- BX25
I received my brand new L2501 the Friday before last. It came with a pile of implements and I've been testing each out. I put about an hour on it with the forks, moving stuff around. Another hour pulling my driveway back up onto the hill with a BB2560 in Low/4wd. Some digging with the bucket and using the hydraulic auger to make holes for trees. A couple hours bush hogging. It went straight to work, varying RPMs and nothing over 2200 and trying to not lug it too bad.
At 6.6 hours today, I was moving a pile of dirt around. At around 1800rpm, I pushed into the pile, lifted, then was backing up and suddenly this clacking noise started. I shut down immediately and checked under the machine because it sounded like a branch was in a fan. There wasn't anything and there was plenty of clearance. So I started it back up and the sound was there like it is in the video, a bit subdued from what it was at first. It was loud enough in the beginning to get my gf to come running from across the yard to ask wtf was going on.
I dropped all the implements and parked it somewhere about 20' away where it could get on a trailer and shut it off again. I'm contacting the dealer to have them come pick it up, but I'm trying to figure out what's going on with it.
- Engine was warmed up and had already been running about 30 minutes.
- There are no smells or smoke.
- It hasn't been run more than a minute since this happened, so I can't say if there's a loss of power.
- It moved normally to where it is now parked, and the hydraulics worked file to operate the steering, hst, loader, and 3pt hitch to ditch the implements and park it.
- There is engine oil on the dipstick, though it is a little grayer than I'd like to see.
- I didn't drain any oil from the pan because I didn't want to interfere with the warranty, the bolts are still painted over.
- The fuel bowl is clean, no water in the bottom. Still has the dealer's fuel in it. I bled the fuel system per the manual.
- The sound is directly proportional to the engine RPM.
So what do you all think is the cause here?
Bad timing? Stuck injector? Rod bearing failing?
I'm reaching out to the dealer to have them take care of it. Hopefully it's not something catastrophic.
At 6.6 hours today, I was moving a pile of dirt around. At around 1800rpm, I pushed into the pile, lifted, then was backing up and suddenly this clacking noise started. I shut down immediately and checked under the machine because it sounded like a branch was in a fan. There wasn't anything and there was plenty of clearance. So I started it back up and the sound was there like it is in the video, a bit subdued from what it was at first. It was loud enough in the beginning to get my gf to come running from across the yard to ask wtf was going on.
I dropped all the implements and parked it somewhere about 20' away where it could get on a trailer and shut it off again. I'm contacting the dealer to have them come pick it up, but I'm trying to figure out what's going on with it.
- Engine was warmed up and had already been running about 30 minutes.
- There are no smells or smoke.
- It hasn't been run more than a minute since this happened, so I can't say if there's a loss of power.
- It moved normally to where it is now parked, and the hydraulics worked file to operate the steering, hst, loader, and 3pt hitch to ditch the implements and park it.
- There is engine oil on the dipstick, though it is a little grayer than I'd like to see.
- I didn't drain any oil from the pan because I didn't want to interfere with the warranty, the bolts are still painted over.
- The fuel bowl is clean, no water in the bottom. Still has the dealer's fuel in it. I bled the fuel system per the manual.
- The sound is directly proportional to the engine RPM.
So what do you all think is the cause here?
Bad timing? Stuck injector? Rod bearing failing?
I'm reaching out to the dealer to have them take care of it. Hopefully it's not something catastrophic.
