Oil & Fuel 4110 Oil and overheating

[mboulais]

I checked last night. My battery does not block the radiator. (at least it won't when I get it back down where it belongs.)

 

[Dougster]

Horn??? I had a better horn on my bike when I was in grade school. That is the one thing the Mahindra needs, an upgrade to a real horn. Cheers

Well Coffeeman, if that's the only thing that Mahindra needs... it must be a pretty dang good product!

Dougster

 

[Dougster]

I checked last night. My battery does not block the radiator. (at least it won't when I get it back down where it belongs.)

Oh good! One less thing for me to worry about!

Dougster

 

[Oleozz]

When I am mowing with any tractor I've gotten into the habit of coming back to the shed every two hours and blowing out the radiator with my air compressor. Even this time of year when there are very few seeds it's amazing how much stuff gets collected and the dirt that flies out.
I am a synthetic blend user (Texas Refinery) and am pleased with the results but to each their own.

 

[MLinOleMiss]

Pull the screens off of the front of the radiator and go to your local appliance parts store and buy a can of air conditioner coil cleaner (the foaming kind) and spray the radiator really well from both sides, let it sit and then use either compressed air or a pressure washer and spray the radiator first from back to front and then front to back. I would have bet the title to my 4110 that the radiator was clean until I did this. Average running temp hovered between 5/8 and 3/4 until I did this, it now stays between 1/4 and 1/3 and that was 5 hours in 89 degree weather with a 6 foot cutter for the first cutting of the summer.

 

[NetworkMD]

Thanks for the spray cleaner advice, I am sure thats my problem I had been using air and THOUGHT my radiator was clean, I let the tractor run and placed a shop towel on the front of the radiator and it bearly stuck very little air movement it is amaizing it is running as cool as it is. Thanks for the great Info, great forum.

 

[coffeeman]

When I am mowing with any tractor I've gotten into the habit of coming back to the shed every two hours and blowing out the radiator with my air compressor. Even this time of year when there are very few seeds it's amazing how much stuff gets collected and the dirt that flies out.
I am a synthetic blend user (Texas Refinery) and am pleased with the results but to each their own.

I wonder if there might be a way to mount a screen door type screen to the outside front of the tractor; using the screen only when mowing. I'm thinking from inside and will have to look at tractor tomorrowto see if there is something that might strike me as possible to do some good. There would always be mount screen with the old duct tape trick. Too hard on paint though.

Might be worth thinking about, but mowing on early damp mornings seems to work ok.

Cheers