Becarefull if buying anything with perkins 1104-44t engine

[campbell]

HEAVYDUTY, Ever dissmantled inspected and assessed one of these engines in a ASV for cause of failure, would you know what you where looking at if you did? - no thought not!!

Your pretty HEAVY on the opinion and light DUTY on facts, down under we try to use our heads to solve a problem - not our mouths - mate!

Campbell

 

[campbell]

G'day Cat Driver, can you point me in the direction of some solutions to the radiator blocking issue on this model ASV? I don't want the owner coming back saying "be carefull if getting any work done with this guy my engine didn't last"

Regards,
Campbell

 

[Depmandog]

This has been THE most entertaining thread I have read on TBN this year!!!

I don't have a Perkins, an ASV, a mulcher or a Terex. I don't even landscape, but I am ROTF LMAO.

Say it's not over, MORE, MORE!

DING DING DING. I need the fighters out of their corners!!! Protect yourself at all times!!!

 

[Heavyduty]

This has been THE most entertaining thread I have read on TBN this year!!!

I don't have a Perkins, an ASV, a mulcher or a Terex. I don't even landscape, but I am ROTF LMAO.

Say it's not over, MORE, MORE!

DING DING DING. I need the fighters out of their corners!!! Protect yourself at all times!!!

I know, people have joined TBN just to get a couple cents worth. I have done my part in getting my opinion out and increased membership at the same time. Can I get a free TBN tee shirt or something? I had to go a few rounds with Digdeep and now a couple of new bloods are gangin up. LET'S GET IT ON.:licking:

 

[Heavyduty]

I wouldn't take a Terex if you gave it me. :ashamed: 3,2,1

 

[slowzuki]

As far as I know, Perkins doesn't supply the radiator or cooling package for either model. You let anything overheat and it won't be good. The MF5455 steep nose models have to have their rads cleaned frequently as its very small, those models are the only ones I've ever seen with engine problems.

And a slightly different workload, less stuff building up on the cooling system and more room to breath.

Aaron Z

 

[Digdeep]

HEAVYDUTY, Ever dissmantled inspected and assessed one of these engines in a ASV for cause of failure, would you know what you where looking at if you did? - no thought not!!

Your pretty HEAVY on the opinion and light DUTY on facts, down under we try to use our heads to solve a problem - not our mouths - mate!

Campbell

Campbell...I wouldn't pay too much attention to him. The Perkins engine is his soapbox. He and I did disagree on this forum in the past and I got 7 PMs from others much more knowledgeable about the mulching industry telling me to ignore his hot air so I did. Everyone is entitled to his/her opinion so I let him have his and I keep mine.

 

[Heavyduty]

Campbell...I wouldn't pay too much attention to him. The Perkins engine is his soapbox. He and I did disagree on this forum in the past and I got 7 PMs from others much more knowledgeable about the mulching industry telling me to ignore his hot air so I did. Everyone is entitled to his/her opinion so I let him have his and I keep mine.

Well, well, well it's my good ol buddy Digdeep. You know, I looked at your post and I thought maybe I was a little quick in calling you an #$%hole in the past. So, before I posted this, I looked at some your past posts to see how you interact with other members on this forum. I didn't have to go far before you were telling people that your sorry for coming across the wrong way and some even told you to get lost, just as I have. You have a habit of getting under peoples skin, I don't know if your mother didn't love you enough as a kid but I wanted to be the bigger person and tell you I'm sorry for calling you an #$%hole. I do agree with you on one thing, everyone is entitled to his/her opinion and YOU should have left it at that.

 

[Renze]

I keep my equipment maintained to the extreame. We change oil every 150 hours, change air filters weekly, blow out air filters twice daily and blow the radiator out every 4 hours of operation. My machine is also equipped with a clean fix revesable fan. I am the operator!! and it was not anything we did.It is a defective engine that perkins and asv are aware of and are hoping that the volume of engines of this kind that they produce will mask the problems they are having with a certain batch of bad ones. All well and good unless you are trying to make a living and feed your family using one of the bad ones then it "sucks".

A certain batch of bad ones... Perkins engines are notorious for head gasket problems, even in light duty telehandler applications (a blown head gasket may look like an overheating problem in a mulcher, but you can identify cause and result in a light duty application like a telehandler, putting bricks on the scaffold a few hours a day at half throttle...)

Perkins were good engines in the day of the P3 and P4 engines...

 

[redprospector]

Well, well, well it's my good ol buddy Digdeep. You know, I looked at your post and I thought maybe I was a little quick in calling you an #$%hole in the past. So, before I posted this, I looked at some your past posts to see how you interact with other members on this forum. I didn't have to go far before you were telling people that your sorry for coming across the wrong way and some even told you to get lost, just as I have. You have a habit of getting under peoples skin, I don't know if your mother didn't love you enough as a kid but I wanted to be the bigger person and tell you I'm sorry for calling you an #$%hole. I do agree with you on one thing, everyone is entitled to his/her opinion and YOU should have left it at that.

Why would you say "I'm sorry" for telling the truth? :laughing:

Andy